Console gaming is more relevant since its a mainstream phenomenon right now. People that think of themselves as "gamers" buy consoles alot and they buy the uberhyped games because they want to be cool. (ATTENTION! I AM NOT SAYING CONSOLE GAMERS ARE NO REAL GAMERS! I HAVE ALL CONSOLES AND A PC!)
For me there is simply no other way than buying games on PC when they are multiplat. Because the PC version simply IS superior.
I can use it at more than 1 pc at the same time
I can play them without a disk even tho I have the retail version. (retail=important for collectors)
I can play the game in Coop/Lan mode with friends that dont own the game.
I can mod them as much as I want and when they are full of bugs the community can fix it.
I can play them in 20 years without buying them again since the technology is just evolving and not being dropped like on consoles. (just look at all the upressed HD versions of "SD" games lol thats nothing you should pay for at all on PC you just increase the resolution for FREE)
I dont have to pay 60 for a new game its mostly 40 (Tomb Raider for example is 22€)
I can play with mouse/Keyboard AND controller.
The whole technology is not proprietary etc.
P.S. Steam games at least in huge parts of Europe are more expensive than the retail versions especially at launch (Tomb Raider is 49€ on steam, 45€ retail on Amazon and 22€ retail when you know where you have to look)
P.P.S Its astonishing that so many console gamers bash other consoles for being inferior when it comes to graphics but its not allowed to mention that PCs are superior. Why is this? I mean they will whine about PS4 etc being "more powerful" than PCs (for a while) but why is it forbidden to mention it the other way around?
Its also interesting that people play shooters on consoles with dead zone crippled input devices (analog sticks) when there is something called mouse and keyboard out there.
So sadly PC became irrelevant thanks to PS360 being mainstream devices. The PC market was overshadowed by consoles and how easy it is to make profit on them (because of the huge number of mainstream gamers) PC is what gaming actually was NICHE.
