I m sorry but for me

PC gaming > all

I have the feelling the games are less arcade and more deep.

I like console gaming, but I still consider PC gaming possess some amazing piece of games.

PC : all FPS, all RTS (real or not), best RPG, best A-RPG, better control (at least for these games : mouse+keyb), online community, FREE !

What I dont like : my PC can't play Stalker ... ;(

The reason consoles are so successful, drop in disc and play. PC games are a pain in my opinion

See, by just dropping the disc in and playing you lose a ridiculous amount of versatility and options.

Yes, on a 2008 gaming PC.  What I'm referring to is the people who claim that all you have to do is buy a $600 gaming PC and you should be set for the next couple of years.  This is usually an argument used in the PC vs. console debate, and it's just simply not true.  The only time you're ever going to get a video card and have it last you for two years, at least playing games on their highest settings, is if you go top of the line.  That's what I always used to do. 

On your second point, yes, you're correct.  I currently have an 8800GTS and it's still handling games just fine.  (except maybe for Crysis)  But most people don't have the money to spend $600 on a graphics card. 

And yes, I know that Gears 2 is not coming out for PC.  It was just an example.

Not a big pain, although I prefer playing with a pad.

Yes! I knew I wasn't the only one!

I've used too many budget games that would just give me problems so I sort of gave up on PC gaming. Even big name makers like Sega (Sega Smash Pack I and II) have games ridden with errors. I have started up games that would just crash from incompatibilities and who know what else.

And before you say "Of course what do you expect from $10-20 games" I expect them to work. I wish publishers would learn to make games that will at least run (I'm not asking for a game to be completely optimized or to run well I just want some games to just start up and play for pity sakes).

Really the success of the Wii shows that the installing, modding, tricking, unglitching, huge load time waiting, and generally not user friendly nature of PC gaming will make sure it remains what it is today.

Gaming should be easy. Plug and play baby.

I can point you out to some amazing 3-6 year old games that are still widely played online, cost about $5-$25, and you can be sure you will not see games like these on a console ever. I still have all Blizzard games installed on my comp, going all the way back to Rock&Roll Racing as well as all Valve games. I can't really help you with anything outside the FPS/RPG/RTS genre though, I mostly just play those on the PC.

For everything else, there's the Wii.

@Billy D

That's the funniest thing I've heard out of a PS3 owner. I'm not gonna bother into going why you should get a PC over a PS3, but rest assured there is no reason to own a PS3 and every reason to own a PC.

The PC is at once great and horrid for gaming. The games and the controls are the best by far for many game types (RTS games and FPS games in particular, but also action RPGs and others). The big road blocks are direct X and windows Vista. Using both (especially Direct X 10 in vista) causes rampant memory errors, out of the blue slow down and tons of other problems that really shouldn't exist EVEN on high end machines. Vista is just the nastiest, most bloated mess known to mankind and Direct X doesn't hold a candle to open GL as a gaming platform (you can tell its inferior because given the choice EVERYONE else uses open GL; Nintendo, Sony, Apple, Linux, everyone).

I just hope that we see the end of Direct X with the 3.0 open GL release and eventually see the end of Windows as the dominant OS. I guarantee you that gaming is a MUCH better experience on OSX and Linux (of course dependent on the quality of the port, EA has done some suspect ones, ID ports are awesome). PC gaming will be awesome when Microsoft stops actively trying to ruin it with crap proprietary tech like direct X.