The PC is another gaming platform. No matter how some may like to pretend that PC gaming is dead, or that it isn't in competition with console gaming, they are wrong -- at least, at the moment. Basically, it's all one market, and making the PC distinct from consoles is as silly as separating HD consoles from the Wii just to lessen the blow that the Wii is wiping the floor with the PS3 and 360.
The example from Germany above shows clearly that PC and 360 directly compete for the same customers, but I can provide a personal example as well. When I made my choice between 360 and PS3 I went for the machine with more exclusives that I wanted to play. As almost every 'exclusive' game I wanted on the 360 I could play on my PC, it was hardly appealing to me, especially as either the PC or PS3 version was often superior for multi-platform titles.
So, from my example alone, you can see why claiming a game available on PC and 360 is exclusive to the 360 is nonsense as far as the console war is concerned. If all those games had only been available on 360, I may have bought one; but they're not, so I haven't. In short, the 360 loses sales due to shared 'exclusivity' with the PC from many of its key titles; thus, the situation has a direct influence on the so-called console wars.
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