Other people probably answered this better than I did, but I typed it out before I saw, so, damnit, I'm going to post it. :-p I think there are a bunch of diff

Other people probably answered this better than I did, but I typed it out before I saw, so, damnit, I'm going to post it. :-p I think there are a bunch of differences, which you've mainly seen, but perhaps have a flip-side to them you haven't considered. The only point you have maybe overlooked is tribalism (brand loyalty) - there are people who have been buying Nintendo consoles for literally 30 years. That's quite a bit of marketing momentum. Controllers: I would guess that you're mainly an RTS or FPS player - FPS, at a guess. Certain genres work much better on controllers - fighting games, racing games, and to a lesser extend adventure games. I consider mouse/keyboard strictly superior (by a great deal) to controllers for FPS, but only in a competitive way - for actually playing a game with them I'm indifferent. (Can't say the same for RTSs, of course.) Superior hardware is a double-edge sword. Consoles are generally released with pretty top-end kit (e.g. the 360 launched with 3 3.2GHz processors in 2005, which despite them being in-order was pretty awesome at the time) but of course are overtaken by generalized hardware in time. The PC is an (unbelievably) fragmented market, though, and consoles generally have specialized hardware to make them more compelling (e.g. the 360's shared memory bus between the processors and the GPU). Coupled with additional experience, time you can devote to a single platform, and tooling, consoles hold their own performance-wise much longer than the specs would tell you. Not unrelated to the last point, sure, everyone has a PC, but most people don't have one capable of playing games that look as good as the ones on their console, and maybe don't have the inclination or knowledge to upgrade their PC to a point where they do. Additionally, maintaining a PC is just harder work than maintaining a console, and most people don't have PCs set up to output to their TV. I hate to break it to you, but most people don't care about the choice of games they have...they want to play maybe 3-5 games they know of, and don't care about getting indie games from Steam or independently. Similarly I don't think many people buy enough games (especially considering the healthy console second-hand market) to justify the purchase of a PC on cost.