Actually PC games tend to have larger budgets overall.
Starwars for instance, despite being an MMO had the largest ever games budget at 200+ million, which is a PC exclusive.

Blizzard and Valve games we generally don't know the budgets, but they often sell 10-15 million units on the PC, so one has to assume they're relatively high.

Hell. The PC INVENTS new genres, like the building genre of Minecraft or the MMO, where did the RTS, FPS and RPG start? On the PC of course.
Technologies such as Tessellation is also invented for the PC first, then in 5-10 years time, the consoles catch up.

Goes to show you have no idea what is available on the PC.

Some up-coming PC-Only titles that I'm personally interested in:
* StarCraft 2 - 3rd expansion, Legacy of the Void.
* Planetary Annihilation.
* Star Citizen.
* Arma III
* Command & Conquer built on Frostbite 2.
* Company of Heroes 2.
* DayZ.
* Dota 2.
* The Elder Scrolls Online.
* Neverwinter.
* Total War: Rome II.
* Wasteland 2.

That's off the top of my head, but you get the idea, dozens more where that came from! Heck, the PC gave birth to Minecraft, enough said.

You can play via Lan or get creative with VM and split the screen up or... Play one of the very few games with local multi-player support.
Failing that, there is emulation of other platforms which will allow multiple inputs and split screen multiplayer with greater framerates and graphics.

Don't like CD Keys? There is an answer to that, only buy from GoG.com. - All DRM, CD Key free, problem solved.
Generally though I haven't had to input or use a CD Key in years, Steam handles all that stuff automagically.


So far you still haven't provided any valid excuse why the consoles are superior.

Consoles are becoming more and more PC-like, the major difference being that consoles are closed platforms and you have absolutely no control. On PC, you have an open OS and you can do pretty much anything you want with it. In general, there's less restrictions on PC. And when I say consoles are becoming more PC-like, I also mean that consoles are losing their simplicity - a major advantage over PC.

PC gaming is very good actually. A CD key doesn't really matter that much, I mean you have to pop in a disc everytime you want to play a game on consoles, right? There are games on PCs that don't require you to do that once you have entered the CD key. It is DRM though.

The best thing about PC is that there is no company controlling it. I guess the one company that could be considered as controlling it is Valve with steam but still not comparable to MS and Sony.

Why bother holding the poll if you choose not to stomach its results?

1. I know about almost all of those games, but lets leave those to people who like to game on a keyboard fulltime. They stay within the PC world....outside of the lionshare of the industry. The only thing PC gaming is doing that is affecting the console market are casual games, but again those are happening everywhere casual games exist.

2. I am not out to prove console gaming is superior technologically, I couldn't prove that even if I tried. Yes, I think the games made with consoles in mind (Multiplats and exclusives) deliver a better experience to me than PC exclusive games, but thats just my opinion. I said console gaming is the last arena where gamer rights exist. This is exercised by the generational collections you find and the process of buying and selling PC gamers havent had the ability to enjoy for years. The fall of true ownership of your games is issue. No one owns a digital file that they purchase a license to. I don't own your Itunes music, you dont own your free copy of your dvd/blu ray digital file that was given with the free code, You don't own Microsoft word, you don't own any game you buy on PC. In the digital realm....you are allowed to do certain things digital files aren't tangible and dont signify ownership. If consoles fall that low, they are no better outside of the sheer wealth of exclusives across all three consoles.

most are smaller/indie games yes.  a lot of the japonese games are going that route too.  i think the latest was atelier which was retail in japan but digital only in the west.

Not for the next 10-20 years if not longer....

It would be the same as Apple shutting down iTunes server, not gonna happen. They really can't afford to shut everything down and start over next gen... Google and Apple will destroy these consoles guys with their ecosystems if they do.

You aren't limited to a keyboard fulltime on the PC, you can use an Xbox or Playstation controller if you fancy it.
Heck you can get a SNES or N64 controller if you wanted!
Or maybe you fancy the Wii Motes? Kinect on the PC maybe?

And what do you mean by Lions share of the market? Steam has what, 50 million+ users? Battle.net has un-told millions, 10's of millions play on Leagues of Legends... Origin has something like 30 million+ users... It's not a tiny market and publishers make more profit per-game sold due to no middle men (Aka, Sony, Micrososft, Nintendo) taking their cut.

As for point 2.
You keep claiming that we don't own our games on the PC, you technically don't own the games on consoles either as they are limited by the same licensing restrictions as other media.
I.E. You are not allowed to duplicate, break the copy protection, limited to certain devices, agree to the licenses etc' etc'.

Again, there hasn't been a class action lawsuit against such practices so it's still mostly a grey area, however a company regardless of the Terms and Conditions/EULA... Cannot and will not override your basic consumer rights and the rights you are given in any respective country, untill then I own my games, not rent them for an undisclosed period of time, it's what they were advertised as and that's what the law will probably side with in my country, that I bought it.

If you're against DRM, there are PC stores which market towards people such as that like GoG.com, it's not like you don't have any choice in PC land.

As for taste in games, everyone is different, just in future don't make false claims and generalise things.

By being functionally a PC in almost every way it possibly can be.

PC parts, PC box, Windows kernel, PC-style DRM, PC cloud services, PC games.

Kinect, TV features, and an online subscription are about the only things separating the XBone from an actual PC. So for people who don't care about Kinect and TV, and don't like paying an extra subscription, PC (or the highly anticipated Steam Box) starts to look more and more attractive in comparison.

I'm sure it did for a lot of the Xbox gamers that pirated their games. There are a lot more workarounds to pirating games on the PC than consoles, so I could see quite a few jumping ship from the Xbox to the PC. Especially, if their 360 games can't be played on the Xbox One anyway.