Exactly, thats the point I was trying to make.

big 3rd partys are getting weaker and weaker, and indies dont demand HW features.

No.

While they have seemed inert to move in the past, you simply can't underestimate Nintendo. There's a reason why they've been the only game company to see the downfall of its powerful competitors and tell the tale. One bad generation and the world flips. You can't win them all. Do we think the Wii was the pinnacle of Nintendo's success? Any progressive thinker would know that this isn't true. Technology advances and so does the mind. Nintendo isn't sitting back, twittling their thumbs, worrying about Wii U. Who knows, their next console could blow our minds again. We can't write them off so soon. All it takes is for Nintendo to at least adopt the structure of new consoles, so at least there would be no excuse to not develop for them. If THAT fails, then yeah, Nintendohas no space in the console hardware market. The same cannot be said about the handheld market though.

I've been gaming on PC for 20 years or more and I've never had such issues. I have waited 3 hours on painstakingly slow updates and patches on my PS3 games though, and I've played plenty of console games that ran poorly, had choppy framerates, glitching textures and massive pop-in issues. I haven't upgraded any of my hardware either for about 4 years now.

Purchasing, installing and playing games on Steam is no more difficult than purchasing, installing and using apps on a smart device; it just has a smaller audience. This whole fallacy that you have to be a tech wizard to game on PC's and that console games are simply pop the disc in and play, is getting old. Have you ever purchased a digital copy of a game on a console? Why are there digital stores at all, they are so difficult and should be of no interest to console gamers. Mainstream games sell less on PC as a rule, and there are several reasons for this, the PC being a clunky tool that people is too difficult to use is not one of them.

PS: Who would buy a game first and then check to see if they meet the hardware requirements later? If someone is that stupid; their PC is not the problem.

Playstation is doing great, Sony is still rocky. I'm waiting for them to announce profits without having to sell/close divisions or buildings or lay off massive amounts of people before I truse they are in a good place. So fae that hasn't been done. MS and Nintendo on the other hand are fine.

Because Uncharted is more mature than Zelda? Hate to break it to you, but the main inspiration of Uncharted is a movie franchise for all ages.

They also have Metroid, xenoblade chronicles, Fatal Frame, Eternal Darkness, Fire Emblem, etc.

And it's not like Sony doesn't have cartoony games like Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank, LittleBigPlanet, Tearaway, etc.

Quite frankly, some of their more interesting franchises if you ask me.

Well, the SNES was market leader, so it couldn't be that bad. That makes 3 exceptions - out of six. I don't think you can establish a rule from that. That's more like wishful thinking, as the second sentence imply.

Yep, this.

OK granted I had the Buy A Game and then check the requirements the wrong way round but the point I was trying to make was that its something you need to check for, as opposed to console where you buy a game for a console and you know its going to work.

And the "put the disc in and play" regarding consoles is still very much relevant, no matter how old it is.  The fact is, its true.  

I'm not saying console gaming is better.  Its obvious that with the right investment and putting a little more time into things, gaming IS better on PC.  I'm merely stating that for the majority, they don't even want to bother with that.  They want a switch on and play device, and a PC just isn't that.