Speaking as both an avid gamer and an (ex) game dev: Because consoles are _easy_. You plop them into your entertainment center, and you're done. No need to mai

Speaking as both an avid gamer and an (ex) game dev: Because consoles are _easy_. You plop them into your entertainment center, and you're done. No need to maintain the latest security patches, find just the right combo of drivers to make it work, etc. Not to mention the wonderful "buy yet another graphics card, please - your previous one you bought 6 months ago is too slow". They also take less space than PCs. "Clumsy controllers" are easy to set up. Keyboard and mouse really require some dedicated space. (Yes, you could pull them out when you need them. It's annoying as heck) From the developers point of view: The game looks and feels the same for every single player out there. I don't need to worry about dozens of graphics fallback paths depending on what hardware you use. So, for everybody involved in the game development cycle, they're more convenient. All your points still hold, but they don't matter in the face of convenience. Not for the average person, at least.