Depends on how you look at it.  If you want all the good console games, it'll easily cost you 900-1200 dollars just to buy the three main consoles + all the add ons (Live, wifi adapter, controllers, etc).  Then you also have to buy the games on top of that which some have additional controllers, payment requirements, etc....

With a PC, you can make a good gaming PC anywhere between 800-1,200 dollars (around the same price or less than all the consoles combined) but also don't need to continue to spend money on the PC to keep it up to date unless you're trying to play something outrageous like Crysis 2 on max settings.  After a couple years, you may need to just update the video card (around 80-100 dollars).

From there, its just about what games you want.  Of course, its not like PC gaming is perfect.  And it doesn't have all the games out there, which is why I still say people should go out and buy console and handheld games.  But to say PC gaming is 'too expensive' is rather rediculous when console gaming is just as expensive or even more expensive now adays.

Not even that. You could easily build a PC capable of running Crysis on High for about $700. And that includes the OS.

Oh, and PC games are cheaper and drop in price much faster than their PS360 counterparts.

Rain on my parade?  You say that as if I actually care about any of this

That said, that's a pretty big statement that it would have the potential to sell ten million on PC alone.  Care to back that up?

Here is your problem. PCs initially didn't have internet or anything they have right now. They were literally just liek consoles, but meant for computation. As time went on they got things like upgradeable hardware and internt and stuff. What you told me isn't the end of PCs, but the end of consoles. They will reach a point where they will have everything that a PC has, except the ability to upgrade and the ability as an open platform.

Also you don't seem to realize that the PC will never die because it does EVERYTHING (unlike that hilarious PS3 slogan, lawl). It handles the entire economy, it is the tool of several of the best jobs in the world, it is something that dwarves the abilities of consoles. Back in the day consoles had nothing to do with a PC, up until this generatioin, now you have 1 console, and 2 half-assed PCs (with the half-assed software to go along with it). The way things are going, the consoles will kill themselves off. If they try to go directly against what a PC does instead of a small part of it (gaming, and they are failing at that), the consoles will be ruined and everyone will be happy. Especially Nintendo because they wouldn't be so stupid as to do that.

That could be true.

It's a Call of Duty game, made by infinity Ward. That's enough of a reason.

fuck that shit dood, PC should be 0-1%, fuck that game in the ass, PC version that is. I wish they sold 0 copies on PC.

It's not. In fact, PC gaming is growing at least as fast as consoles. I mean, WoW alone boasts 11 million players, The Sims 3 is selling by the bucketload, Valve are raking in the dough with Steam (which is a helluva lot more than MS or Sony can say about their respective consoles), and a little Facebook app called FarmVille could boast a player base in the tens of millions.

The potential for someone to use the PC platform in a market-disruptive fashion is much greater than on consoles, and it's happening several times over as we speak.

Well, there's no way to know. You can't just mention a few popular games and say that's enough. Since there is no tracked sales data, it makes it difficult to determine.

But with digital platforms like steam, and their awesome deals, it's surely not dying.

Besides, WoW's supposed 11 million players (is that a grand total, or a current total? I've always wondered) doesn't even compare to Wii games' sales. Or just Nintendo games in general really. Essentially, the heavy-hitters on PC (in terms of sales) are still lightweights compared to games on consoles.

@ bolded: You contradict yourself. First you say there's no way to know and then say the heavy hitters are lightweights compared to console sales?