I was considering buying a second console but am strongly inclined to get the wii as I cannot find anything different that the x-box offers to other consoles.

wii offers unique controllers that give a new and different experience.

The PS3 offers the cheapest blu ray player in the market.

X-Box 360 offers?

XBOX Live

at the moment live has more features and downloadable content than PSN

Gears of War 1

Gears of War 2

Fable 2

Cheaper than PS3 at the moment too.

Its upto you what you get, all 3 consoles have there pros and cons.

There are lots of JRPGs for PC and many of those are hentai games(thats a big win :D).

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Name a few higher-end ones that can compete with Lost Odyssey, Star Ocean, or a Tales game, please.

If the game is digitally distributed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but 100% of games aren't DD.

We're talking 5-8 year old computers. And then you mention that if you dropped a few hudred dollars in a new card, it can play games that PS360 games could only dream (which ones exactly? Crysis? Thats about it). 

If you pay for live. And if you actually pay $50/yr for it (for me, its closer to $35)

Right. Unfortunately, games don't tank on the PS3/X360 like they do on PC anymore. 

PC still doesn't have JRPGs, and the X360 actually offers MMOs (Conan is coming as well as Champions Online).

PC has much more RPGs coming out than X360 and PS3 combined, that's all you need to know.

Still have to pay for the games on Steam, no?

Just like you pay games on Retail. But the Steam itself is free, while XBoc Live Gold isn't.

Are you referring to illegal cracks? At any rate, you have XBLA and XBO games that don't require disks either.

Modding your own game is perfectly legal, if you have a legal copy of the game. The problem is several companies try to fight piracy so they use online activations and whatnot, and those type of DRM are unable to see which copy is legal and which is illegal, so the DRM schemes just assume that whichever is using the crack is illegal.

For singleplayer games, crack is quite viable. And heck, EA's new copy protaction even lets you play the games without Disc from the get go, so you don't even need to use a crack there.

LOL! Mind listing me a few computers under $1,000 5 years ago that can play ANY recent game? My 2001 computer (which was pretty decent, spec wise for 2001) can't play ANYTHING made within the past few years.

My brother's PC (it cost 1000 WITH a monitor). P4 2.5Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128MB Radeon 9600 something. Off the top of my head, only 4 PC games can't run on his machine: Mass Effect, Crysis, Assassins Creed and DMC4.

One thing I'm sure though is that his PC will still be able to play hundreds of PC games in the next coming years. Indie and Low cost developers are are alot, and many deliver amazing games that have low specs, like: Sins of a Solar Empire, Audiosurf, Trackmania United Forever and Galactic Civilizations II.

Except when draconian DRM comes into play for your favorite digitally downloaded games

You can put Steam in offline mode, which will let you play the games offline. Impulse let's you play the games offline at any time, without any DRM. On GOG.com you can just download the games and play DRM free.

There are some DD services that do have intrusive DRM (EA Store, Direct2Drive) but those services are getting way behind their competition, and will be even more backwards if they keep like this, while Steam has grown almost 200% in the past year.

Maybe they're inclined to cater to everyone - even PC owners?

Capcom are making all their HD games on PC first, then port to Consoles. They are doing it because it's cost effective, however when their ports were terrible, now their top notch and Capcom is even a contributor to PCGA.

EA, on the other hand, is giving alot of amazing PC-centric games such as Dragon Age (PC Bioware RPG), Warhammer Online, Spore and The Sims 3.

PC gaming is NOT cheaper. You buy 1 Xbox 360 for $349, and your set until 2012. You buy 1 PC for $1,000 and your set till 2012 if your lucky. Unless you buy a system for >$2,000 your computer is not going to last very long. I've been a PC gamer since 1995, and know this for a fact. Every PC system I've ever owned (after all, every single person on this forum is a PC gamer in some form or fasion) has been outdated for games within ~3 years. My Xbox 360 that I paid $400 for in 2005 hasn't been out dated, and will last for another 3-4 years. I can't say that about the laptop I bought last year - I can't even play anything on it.

Today, PCs are cheaper than ever. We are reaching a point where graphics become 'obsolete' when factoring both development costs and technology costs. We will reach a point where even PC w/ integrated graphics will be able to run games at a very decent graphical quality.

Even if you don't build your PC, PC games are MUCH Cheaper than console games.. PC games are released 10$-30$ cheaper and drop price much faster, while Console games always sell at 60$. So if you buy 30 games in a entire console generation (5years), on PC you would save 600$-700$ on games alone, and add the money you save from paying XBL Gold for 5 years ($250) and you save 850$-950$.

with those 850$ you would eventually save, you could buy a 800$ PC AND a 150$ and still be like 250$ cheaper than gaming Xbox 360.

Nicely done sir.