Some of you may remember this from earlier today, where Kudo Tsunoda said this:

"Halo did an awesome job of building a first-person shooter exclusively for the console, and now hardly anyone plays first person shooters on the PC anymore. It's all about the console."

http://www.gamerzines.com/pc/news/kudo-hardly-any-fps-on-pc.html

Well, PCGamer had something to day to Kudo today.

"At least 266,505 people played an FPS on a PC today"

"According to Steam stats*. And that’s before America gets its game on. Your move, Kudo."

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/09/20/around-266505-people-played-an-fps-on-a-pc-today/

I found this pretty funny.

LOL, i would say PCGAMER owned itself there.  266K definitely qualifies as hardly anyone.

This has been explained in the OP. Notice how this is ONLY the number of people playing an FPS on Steam at that exact moment.

It includes nobody playing an FPS at that moment who isn't running it off of Steamworks. 

But it says "At least 266,505 people played an FPS on a PC today" that doesn't mean at that exact moment in time...it means up until that point.

Now without a doubt there are more unique users that play FPS on consoles then on the PC.

Take these stats - for the Halo games alone there have been 2.8 million unique users in the last 24 hours, then you start to add the likes of MW2 which has at least 200k people online at any given time....then you start to think how not everyone has Xbox live, plus there are tons of other FPS games on the 360 so you gotta add them all up.  Even when you add all that up you have to remember the all the Playstation and Nintendo systems that people play FPS games on.

As far as FPS games are concerned it truly is all about the consoles....

yes but a major exclusive FPS game has just been launched, a lot of people that play PC FPS's will be playing REACH. And when was the last FPS for PC released? 

I love pc games as much as the next guy don't get me wrong but I think the consoles might have this one...

note the "s" on the end of consoles because despite what certain microsoft loving people might think the PS3 also has first person shooters not as many as the 360 maybe but certainly more then enough to matter modernwarefare2 is already over 8 million (i think) on the ps3 alone.

I dunno if he was just talkin people online or in general because if its in general one could also argue that the wii contributes some to the number of fps users on consoles too...

So yea pc is probably beatin but really it isn't a fair comparison by any stretch of the mark