You are much better off buying an XBox 360 or a PS3 and buying a standard computer to work on than buying a top notch computer that you have to update all the time so jsut so you can play the newest games.  If you buy an dXbox 360 or PS3, for a few hundred dollars you play new games worry free for several years. 

You could argue that PC gaming is better, everyone has their preferences, but to think that PC gaming is cheaper is an obsurd.

PC gaming is easily cheaper, you don't need a top notch PC (especially nowadays). Now you see hundreds of PC games coming out on retail at $30 or $40 price point, way cheaper than console games.

You can easily buy a $700 PC that will last you until the end of this generation and a couple of years into the next gen. And upgrading is becoming more and more obsolete due to the fact that PCs can last much more time playing games today.

If I had lots of money to waste, I'd buy a top-notch PC, but for even half of that price I can get a decent gaming PC which will run anything. For the price of a PS3 you can put together a nice dualcore gaming solution which will have the same graphical abilities. For a couple of dollars more you could sqeeze even a quad-core processor(altho it's not needed for gaming).

Now that ATI has put his act together and started releasing competitive gfx cards again, the gfx race will continue, the prices will fall, and in two years time PC will have far more graphical abilites than consoles.

Fanboy Claims he wouldn't have bought a console this gen if it weren't for his console of choice. I never would have guessed >_>

Im not one of thoes hardcore PC gamers infact im not into PC gaming since i cant fork over money every couple years to upgrade (go ahead say what you want but im not bashing pc gaming) hell my notebook cant even run Doom 3 and its just 2 years old.

Ive been a gamer since the NES era and i the only reason i bought the wii was because of all the upcomming games from nintendo and third party that were anounced but so far im disspointed by some develoeprs cause they've been brainwashed that wiis mostly family-friendly but they will learn it hard way when they dont take the it seriously soon

Why are we talking about about PC gaming? The thread talks about a simple fact: the console market now is bigger thanks to the Wii. I didn't own a console last generation, now I do. And also my interest in videogames is renewed. Is true, i've never stopped playing, but mostly on the PC, which is also used for a lot of other things. Buying a machine ONLY to play games is something a lot of people didn't do in the past. This so-called casuals, once they are hooked, they will stay for good. And that is thanks to Nintendo. Just like the movies, we will have tons of different games, most of them will be crap, but since people love going to the movies, the industry keeps producing, and once in a while we have something good. Exactly with videogames. Only that thanks to the Wii, this entertainment business is not some thing nerds do. Its out there, everbody can enjoy it and since it is profitable will last. Now, thanks to the Wii, another crash it's less likely. Imagine that all the movies, everyone of them, were directed by Woody Allen. I mean, I love his movies but I understand that most of the people don't. So thanks god there's Steven Spielberg and producers of blockbusters, that makes posible this massive entertainment profitable and posible. Same is happening now with videogames. Thanks god there´s the Wii.

PD: I wish I had money to buy all the consoles, I'm not a Fanboy.

Addressing your points:

1) People who buy a 360 already have a TV.  People who buy a PC do not have a monitor, keyboard or mouse.

False for several reasons.  A) It's possible for a non-TV owner to buy a console, there is no law that states you must own a TV to purchase one.  My brother this last week is a good example, buying both at the same time.  B) Many PC owners already have monitors, keyboards and mice, as do console owners.  C) You can hook a PC up to a TV, just as easy as a console - negating the need for a monitor.

It's simply not fair to include a monitor in the price of a PC, and not include a TV in the price of a console.

2) The more games you have, the slower your computer runs.

False.  HDD space has very litte to do with overall computer speed, and if it does, you need a defrag.

3) Building a PC that runs games decently can be quite expensive.

Sort of true, but not much. You'll spend about $100 more than a console building a gaming PC.  See the $500 rig linked in the quote above, which outperforms 360/PS3 in visuals.

The whole point of this thread is that 360/PS3 are trying so hard to be PC's, that they end up overlapping PC gaming - and for anyone who knows their way around PC's, the consoles come up short.   I mean, they just found online gaming!  They're still amazed by user created content!  For non-PC owners I can see why it's incredible, but for the rest of us, been there done that (in higher res and more detail).

Wii embraces the qualities of a console, takes gaming in a different direction from PC's, and that makes it the only console worthy of a purchase for a PC gamer.

Well said. May I add game installations to the mix? Many PS3 games require installation, just like PC games do. Oh, and Sony allows you to install Linux on it. On the other hand, I can see why a PC owner would buy a PS3 or a 360. If you have a PC just for games, a console is a cheaper alternative (well, without the games). And there's quite a few console exclusives that are good enough to justify a console's purchase (at least for some people).

@frybread

Amazing post guy, I was considering bringing that up in refference to LBP.

At first I didn't understand why people thought Little Big Planet would be huge, so I restudied to game, got into the beta and saw for myself. I can say safely that I wasn't impressed with anything except the graphics. (It looks pretty) I also like the narrator's voice and the music.

But the game it self granted a beta was not something special in any way. That's when it dawned on me, myself being a PC gamer for years now had been introduced to user generated content since 1997 and a game I played back then allowed you to even develop your own game of sorts, people created shooters, rpgs, action games all within this game. A Microsoft game I believe it was dungeon siege allowed for created maps that could be added to the over all. Warcraft 3 was by far the most impressive I rushed to be the first to make a over the shoulder 3rd person shooter on that, after playing the over head version, it took several weeks to perfect it but I had a playable version up in the mean while. In the end this kind of content didn't seem so amazing as I didn't notice it missing from console games at all.

Little Big Planet however is quite simple to break down.
It is a weak platformer (Traits not quality)
Strong level editor (Traits not quality)
Very mediocore additional complexity. (Traits not quality)

It's nothing amazing but it has a lot of elements that can keep you busy but only if your interested in designing. The only thing that set me back in truely enjoying the beta was the limited world you had to play with, I wanted to create a rush up mountain race game that involved vertigo and cliff point free falls with rushed incline rises. However the levels were just too small. =.= (I'd suck at being a level designer.)

Concrete proof.