1) Wrong. PC's aren't big, nousy and unable to be in a lounge room environment. - PC's don't need noisy optical drives, PC's also have higher quality, quieter fans than the consoles, PC's can also be water cooled or be completely passively cooled.

And you could have your PC in another room and wireless stream it to your PC.

PC is as flexible as you want to make it, it is an open platform, consoles are limited and constrained.





2) PC's come in all shapes and sizes. Case in point: ITX.



3) A high-end PC built last console generation is still going to be capable of running games this generation with a GPU upgrade, provided you have a Nahelem or better Quad. Initial Costs are offset by cheaper games, free online, cheaper accessories.
I have saved THOUSANDS by having the bulk of my games library on PC verses console.


4) Steam in big picture mode with a standard controller is entirely possible, it functions just like a console, just turn it on, fire up a game, no keyboard or mouse is actually required.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrL6-OhN94

Consider yourself enlightened.


Now lets look at what consoles have become... They are now having semi-regular hardware upgrades/replacements (PS4 Neo) or short life cycles (Wii U), they require constant multi-gigabyte patches due to games often being buggy on launch. (Some 10's of gigabytes, case in point: Halo: The Master Chief Collection) constant OS/Firmware upgrades and their own long list of other issues.
Their games are graphically inferior, struggling to even achieve 1080P minimum across the board.

They have lost their ability to just be plug and play, I often don't end up playing a game for months, if I were to fire up Halo 5 right now, I'll probably be greeted with an update to the game, again, which turns me off from picking it up and casually playing it.

I really don't agree with you; powerful PCs are very expensive , and most of casual gamers and harcore/casual gamers don't want or can't spend a lot for powerful GPU, and play the same games at higher res and some slighty prettier textures; also, PCs are big, noisy, and you can't bring them in your living room, and stay confortable on a sofà, playing infront on a big TV; console gamers wants console to play videogames, this will never change; also, they want "plug and play", easy, fast, all is ready, and you don't have to waste time to configure a lot of things.   Also, Uncharted4 graphics is even better than most of PCs games, all in all, graphics/art dedign, effects, and what you said only apply to hardcore PC gamers.

And once NEO will come out, it's gonna be another option for many other console gamers, the more hardcore ones ;)  

Console gamers play games on consoles, and do not want to bring their pc in the leaving room,easy as that. You may show all the pics you want to promote PC gaming  in a living room, but fact is most of people will never move a PC in their living room. If it was like you are saying,we would  never have 56m PS4 sold by the end of 2016, as most of us forecast, but we  would have many more pc in our living room. Why people buy so many PS4 when moving a pc to play games is better? And Please don't enlighten me, I don't need. Also, powerful PC are more noisy, produce more heath and consume a lot more electricity and are way bigger!

PS4 Neo is still a rumor, we must wait until E3 to take conclucions.

And one of the bad things about PC, is that the really Powerful ones use too much eletricity, some even more than a Air Conditioner.

The Neo was confirmed by Sony.

To be fair. I didn't start the PC vs PS4 debate. If someone rubbishes another platform and I believe that information to be factually incorrect, I am likely to say something, regardless of the platform.

As for consoles being inferior, I mean that purely in a technical sense and I did back my argument up with information, if that is somehow frowned upon, so be it.

And it could also be said the poster I was replying to was baiting.