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Dante9 on 11 November 2017
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1) Convenience
My PS4 looks like it belongs in the living room next to my TV, it's a stylish machine (especially in the vertical position). I can play on my comfortable couch and I don't need to figure out how to connect a PC to my TV and have long cords running from one room to another. My PC is in my bedroom. Sure, this is a choice thing, but this how I choose to run my kingdom. The PC is for using the internet and that's pretty much it.
2) Reliability
With a console, I can always be sure that it will run all the upcoming games and I won't have to tackle with a myriad of compatibility issues, outdated pieces of hardware and whatnot that comes with the PC landscape. Okay, if you want to nerd out, you can build yourself a monster rig with all the best components and get maximum graphics and performance out of games, but that would require pretty much constantly upgrading things and making sure that parts work together and it just isn't worth the hassle to me. It's also something I don't want to be continuously pouring money into. Games nowadays look pretty enough as they are and the generational console upgrades are enough for me.
3) Exclusives
Can't do without them Sony exclusives. All platforms have exclusives, but through the years it has become apparent to me that Sony makes the ones that I need the most. And they make a good number of them as well. It's very rare that competing platforms have something to offer that I would even consider playing. So rare that it's negligible.

Also, there's the fact that the keyboard/mouse combo is way too complicated for me to be comfortable with, but I didn't want to make a point out of it, because I think I would get used to it if I wanted to. But there's just something about the feel of things, it's not as good if you have to move a character with one hand (making sure your fingers are on the right keys among a thousand other keys) and shoot/whatever with the other so that each hand is on a different controller. Nah.