No, that is not better. Anyone can compile a program (or send a random executable) but I would like to see you reverse-engineer  a binary and analyze it in "5 minutes".

I have no interest in what any of that offers me. 

PC gaming doesnt offer me the most important aspect to me. Ease of use and jump in and play. And as long as Halo is not on PC at launch then I'll never consider it. 

I'm glad you like PC gaming. I dont.

You can jump in to PC gaming just as easy as consoles. And you realize that if things worked out differently Halo would have been on Mac and the PS2 right?

I just double click on a list with 0 disc swapping, not sure why that's hard for some people, times have changed and PC has long evolved in general and not only gaming.

I like how my views are "dated" even though they’re still valid. A cheap PC that can play new games will run you around $750 to $1,500 and the cheaper you buy the more often you will need to upgrade. You would need to buy between 50 and 100 games for your PC before the average cost savings per title ($10 to $20 depending on multiple factors) allowed you break even on the sale of the hardware; and about the only time people save money through PC gaming is if they pirate games, which is one of the reasons why so few PC exclusive experiences exist anymore.

If you want to own a physical copy of a game, which I really do if I'm paying full price for a game, you have the same purchasing process as a console game except you’re left with the time consuming process of installing the game.

Right now I’m looking into replacing my current PC with something that will play Starcraft 2 and Starwars: The Old Republic at decent levels without needing to upgrade in 12 months when another game comes out; and the price level I’m looking at is between $1,000 and $1,500. Unless there are some remarkable deals announced in the next several weeks, I will probably end up spending more on the graphics card and operating system than a home console; and I will still need a new motherboard, CPU, memory and hard-drive (and I should get a new power-supply and case, along with a new optical drive while I’m at it). I’m not even talking about anything remarkable or exotic, the cost of a Radeon HD5770 and the OEM version of Windows 7 will cost more than a Wii or XBox 360 arcade, and if you don’t get a good deal will cost you more than a PS3 or the good XBox 360.

See that's the thing though now we're comparing oranges to apples. You really don't need to reverse engineer the entire thing to know it's a virus. Viruses have other signatures which you can follow to identify. They either have a purpose, such as information mining, or are there to for the sake of causing harm to your computer. The ones that are made to cause harm for harm's sake are pretty easy to identify since they make themselves known. The hardest ones to catch are botnet files, but even those are not so hard to identify if you look at your network log. Keyloggers are also pisspoor at hiding within processes, and they also have to have a network connection to send their data unless someone has physical access to your PC (then youa re fucked no matter what you do but whatever).

Since I'm not about to start looking at hex jsut cause some faceless person on the internet dared me to, I am going to assuem that you also know that to detect viruses youreally don't have to detect the actual file, just detect their signature, and it is really not that hard to spend 10-15 minutes a week to scan a few lines of logs. There is a reason why a botnet ctonroller for a botnet installed in the Intel labs costs $3mil.

Yesterday I opened Steam for the first time in about a month as I wasnted to screenshot Portal for VGC Most Wanted. I had to wait 10 minutes for Steam to update, then a further 10 minutes for Portal to update. Had I not been online it might have done it without needing to update, but who is likely to be offline nowadays unless there was a power cut or something.

Now this does highlight an advantage of PC gaming in that I was able to get my own screenshot easily without extra kit, however it took long enough, print screen it seems just records black if you use it for a full screen application, and exiting it crashed the game (running it with Photoshop open at the same time meant an atrocious framerate while playing too) I managed to get it though by restarting and playing the game in a window. Including the playing time to get to the bit I wanted (boss fight with GlaDOS) it took me almost 50 minutes to get a screenshot.

Now i'm not going to say PC gaming is terrible, but perhaps you can understand why it is a hassle to people and that there are actually some advantages to console gaming. My personal gripes with PC gaming are numerous.