Yea, your thread totally ended all debates about PC vs consoles on the internet. Congrats...

lol Putting it to rest.....good one:)

OT: PC is nowhere near the hassle you make it look like. Problems with the different drivers? Almost all of them will be installed automatically by your OS once you need them. Graphics card drivers? Yes, they are trickier, but if you play it safe and forget about the Beta drivers you won't have much troubles.

Also streaming, you make it sound like Sony or whoever wants to do it needs a console duplicate for every user that wants to use the service. Yeah, sure.

But yes, consoles are the best choice for the average gamer (ie. most of us).

Well, 2014 is not exclusive since it's on Vita too.

I put in all the facts as they relate to every model. I am not saying on eis better than the other as I have my own personal preferences. But it doesn't cahnge that these are the facts as they are. I am not expecting all or anyone to agree with me or anyone explanation that I gave. i just figured to give a template by which reasonable discussions on the issues and limitations may be made. The fact that its this long only goes to show how complicated it all is and why anyone coming in and saying this one thing is better than that is talking aoutta their ass.

If you look at what you have said, you will see that i also covered that very scenario.

That was a really good analysis (I didn't think it would be).
I don't think anything will be killed off just yet.

You obviosuly didn't read the OP and then still went on to post. If you did then you would see why what you are saying isn't true. 

There is so much wrong with the bolded part that i don't even know where to begin. I will put it this way though, PCs have more to fear from consoles becoming more like them than they other way round and in truth the only thing saving PCs now is that they always offer a higher performance advantage. The core gamer you talk about specifically only exists in the PC space. And they are nothing compared to the millions of "core gamers" that exist in the cosnoles space. 

And no, its not "easier" to manage anything on PC.

And you like most PC types (not saying you are) make it sound simpler than it really is. What you are saying is simply not true.

Lets take a laptop for instance, which as far as PCs go is the locked down PC platform. Have you ever tried instaling a new version of windows OS on a laptop? After doing it, it doesn't just automatically install all the drivers. Even things as simple as your trackpad driver has to be sought out and installed for your specific laptop hardware or not you wil not be able to use multitouch/gestures on the trackpad. If you have a special keyboard layout with special keys, you have to sought out the driver for that too. then sought out the display and cpu drivers to. And this is just talking laptops.

And yes, that i show streaming works. There are ways around this, but those ways aren't viable when considering game streaming. If you have 10M subscribers, you have to acoomade for the possibility that all 10M of them may be on at the exact same time playing a game. If you don't have a duplicate console for every single one of them, then if that day ever comes yu are going to have a lot of unhappy paying customers on your hands.

You've opened a can of worms that was covered with a plastic wrap previously.
Congratulations.

If you didn't read, don't post or at least post something more respectful like "Tagging to read later".