So I still can’t really play Diablo 3.

I can play during lunch at work…but that’s really only in small chunks and I always have to be wary of when checkpoints are and how much time I have left (so I really get to play in 30 minutes chunks).  At home, I just can’t install the game even though I have a PC that exceeds the recommended requirements.  Every time I try to install the game, the agent.exe tries to update itself and eventually crashes.  Sometimes I manage to actually start downloading the game but it still eventually crashes.  I’ve deleted my ProgramData/battle.net folder, set peer-to-peer to false, disabled all security programs, tried installing in safe mode with networking support, tries using someone else’s battle.net folder (that one usually gets me the furthest), and tried downloading the game at work and then transferring it to home, along with every fix I’ve been able to find online and I just can’t install the game.  I’ve spent countless hours trying to install the game and nothing has worked.  A few times I’ve managed to get the downloader going and get as far as 20-ish percent before it crashes.  One time it even let me click the play button before crashing, but I’ve never actually gotten it installed.

So yeah, every time someone tries to tell me that PC gaming is alive and well and the king of everything, I want to punch them in the face.  Games may look better on better, whatever, but at least I can play my console games. 

Which is why consoles won't die out anytime soon despite what some people say.

Sucks to hear that you're having troubles beyond the most vocally known ones though.

The fact that Uncharted 3 and Twisted Metal do not work on my specific 80GB PS3 SKU due to a firmware conflict, renders your entire argument moot.

Arbitrary but solitary issues such as not being able to play a particular game will persist on all modern platforms that rely on any kind of software updates and have varying hardware(SKUs for consoles). You're just lucky not to come across a similar issue yourself on consoles. And in the instance that one were to come across such an issue, that shouldn't entitle them to make such sweeping generalizations.

Though so you don't feel like I'm ganging up on you I'll admit that D3 has many problems but it isn't even remotely indicative of PC gaming as a whole.

There's a simple fix for your problem-- update your firmware.  It's not due to some sort of fault your games don't work, it's due to your choice of not wanting to update your firmware for whatever reason that may be.  That's like saying I'm mad that Diablo 3 won't run on my Windows 98 machine.

And while Diablo 3 has been the worst I've seen in a long time, it's not at all isolated (for me at least).  I can't remember the last time I had a PC game that just worked except for perhaps some Steam games (which I admit is great).  Every time I've installed a non-Steam game, I've always had to jump through many hoops just to get the game running.

Every time I turn on my PS3 to play video games it randomly turns itself off. This happens within 5 minutes of gameplay sometimes, but other times it will happen after an hour or so. If I'm really lucky, it won't happen.

Now I can't finish UC3 and I've lost all motivation to play it. Consoles gaming sucks blah blah blah PS3 sucks blah blah

Definitely not something wrong with my *specific* console. It must be all PS3 consoles.

Hit the nail on the head.

I absolutely accept that there are broken consoles, that happens, but still, in genral, to play a console game I insert the disk and I'm ready to go.  Even if there is an update, it's done for me.  There isn't any worrying about drivers, there's no worrying about DRM, there's no worrying about which patch needs to go with what system, there's no funny resolution settings, there's no worrying about conflicting programs, it just works.  I put my disc in, and I play my game.  It's a wonderful concept.  When there is something wrong, it's fairly easy to diagnose what the issue is/

My PC is a working PC.  Everything is up-to-date and everything else is running well.  I would expect my game is run well too but I can't even install the game.  There's are many potential fixes, almost all complicated and time consuming, and they're almost all shots in the dark.

You're dealing with a broken console.  It happens and it does suck.  Like any piece of hardware, they can break.

If it were just me and one single PC, I would believe you.  But it's not just me, my friends have to go through the same hoops.  It's also just not my PC's or my friends PC's, I run into the same sort of issues with my work PC (while I do know what I'm doing with computers, BS in Computer Science, my work PC is maintained by an IT professional).  Beyond most Steam games, I rarely hear of PC game installation going smoothly.

you apparently havent heard of LoL more then 30 million players, almost as big as starcraft in korea, the biggest e sport game in europe and in North America and even though its free to play it brings in more profit then WoW.

I was unaware of that. Wow.

The only time i've had hardware problems on PC is directly because of consoles.

Like how Darksiders doesn't want to recognize any controller except for an XBox 360 one....