Yep, wholeheartedly agree with this.

And seeing how unoptimized games are released in PC made me focus on consoles.

One of the main reason i stick with consoles is that when you buy or build a pc, your money goes into hardware development only. With a console you always invest into gamedevelopment as well.

It is but not always, it's like how many resource developer need to make a game, just look call of dutty ghost and other cross gen games perform. They will look slightly pretty but the shader and affect is the same no matter how good your graphic card is.

so the answer is it depend on what are u looking for with PC and console. Most people who love console is people who dont have time, dont like to put effort on instaling, bench marking etc..., my save bet is to buy PC on the midle to end of this generation, because most games will look the same on PC and console for 2-3 years from now.

PC isn't just ONE thing. My PC gets destroyed by my PS4.

I bought a console exactly because of your reason #3: Consumer type.
I unboxed it, connected one cable to the power source, second to the internet and third to the TV ---> ready to go in 2 minutes.

Actually, I did swap the HDD to a 1TB version, which took me 2 minutes, but also 60 minutes of watching youtube videos prior to purchase, because I have no clue about electronics and am not willing to take a PC apart and swap parts for it....

I believe that for 400€ I got the best value proposition, I can play hundreds of games without worrying if my machine can play them. I don't want or care for constantly checking specifications to see which games I can play...

Not only that I don't like gaming on the PC, I don't own a computer period. I have one at work for my work related needs. Everything I need in my private time is done on the smartphone or a tablet...for the last 3-4 years. Having no computer feels so...liberating....

I game on console because all of the "infrastructure" like OS, party chat, headset, controller, and game settings, is already there for you. I do sometimes go on PC for counterstrike, Half-Life, Battlefield 3 and Team Fortress 2, but never feel like i'm playing a fair game or a premium experience. I feel that PC gaming is for the tech savvy and hardcore, rather than the "pick up and play" people that I catagorise myself in. I also daresay that console games tend to be more polished and optimised (though there are notable exceptions), with console features implemented into the game. Also exclusives like Halo and Gears keep me in the console crowd.

What? Game Developers still get paid on PC when you buy their games.
Converesly, developers can get more of your dollar as most publishers (And in many cases) and developers allow you to buy the game directly from them, thus removing the Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony/Valve tax on games.

Conversely, consoles need the PC, without PC gamers funding the technological advancement, then consoles have nowhere to go with it's "next gen", unless they wan't to go the way of the Ouya and use ARM-based hardware.

But it wouldn't be fair?
If you wish to do a complete and honest cost-analysis of a platform then you need to factor in *everything*.
For instance, PC games are cheaper, there is no online paywall, it is fully backwards compatable with decades worth of games, removing the need to buy multiple systems to play them all
For instance, my PC is 2 years older than my Xbox One, but I didn't need to buy a new PC to play these "next gen" games, it was already capable of running them.
Accessories like controllers, camera's, microphones, storage etc' are also cheaper. - I could buy 6x Keyboards and mice for the price of an Xbox or Playstation  controller.

However a PC will generally use more energy... That can actually mount up, especially if you start looking towards 30'cents per kwh.

If a PC gamer is going to be spending $1,000 on a GPU, they aren't going to be running games at console level, but significantly higher. (Or using that power for something other than games.)

Besides, there is an old saying of... "You get what you pay for". - You wan't the best? Then PC is where it has *always* been at, we were gaming in 1080P while gamers were excited about the very first Playstation or the Nintendo 64, yes really.
Again, what is required to make this an unbiased and fair comparison is a good breakdown of the costings of every single facet of the platforms, unfortunatly you haven't done so, merely just created "what-if" scenario's to spur the hate talk.

PC Gaming is unfortunatly a larger market than consoles right now and growing faster than even the PS4 and Xbox One combined. (100 mil+ verses what, 30 mil for all 3 console platforms?)
It also consitutes a wide variety of "types" of gamers, from, casual, to social to hardcore to enthusiast.
However, having lob-sided share of the market isn't good for consumers, ultimatly I would prefer an equal and even split between everyone for competition reasons, otherwise innovation and price goes out the window.

Ironically, the points you bring up about people wanting "ease of access" is actually going backwards with consoles, long gone are the days where you did not have to update your machines and update your games, install your games, heck even load your games... The consoles GUI's are limited, yet being cluttered with more and more "junk" that gets in the way of actually, you know... Playing games and you still claim ease-of-use? Seriously? Might have been true a generation or two ago, not so anymore.

Where-as the PC, is going in the completely opposite direction.
You can buy a pre-built machine, plug it into a TV, download steam, run it in Big-picture mode and use it like a console, but simpler and a cheaper games library.

As for PC gamers being Obnoxious? Console gamers really aren't the ones to talk. - Constantly on these forums I see the more "technologically advanced" console users bash the "lesser advanced" machines user base, as-if they are high and mighty. (Xbox and Wii gamers probably understand this.)

The fastest way to stop the PC gamers from being "Obnoxious" is for the console gamers to also tone it down. - Basically, don't do to others what you don't wan't done to yourself, or... Just deal with being a slower, inferior platform.

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Well it's fair and logic for console to have a debate which one better, most PC gamer who is really (most of the time) is Obnoxious is like an adult people who joint in teenage fight Lol. If people having a debate which console is powerfull is fair but what make people dont like is there is always people who come to troll on console debate with saying PC "is better then both". :D hah