What you are forgetting however is that once the hastle of building it is done, you have an infinitely more useful and flexible platform, from deisgn software, development software to music creation, emulation and a mass of ways to watch video and listen to music, ingame soundtrack? Fire up your favorite music player and enjoy your music for ANY game even retro.
People often forget this major difference when comparing the two.
When you build a PC you aren't just getting something to play games on, you get a whole lot more than that, and if that isn't worth the additional hastle/expense, stick to console gaming.
Also, if you are so inclined, a decent PC nets you unlimited free access to play any console game from the PSP and ds all the way back to the colecovision, and every single game ever made for each of the many, many systems.
