Don't lie man, you can't buy a 64'' monitor with 600 pounds.

*Cutting edge graphic
*Mods
*Keyboard + Mouse
*Piracy
*MMO

Take your pick

Games like the ones in my sig and more than 150 others I played and enjoyed. Unique library, RTS, point&click, largest library of exclusives of any system, excellent backwards compatibility (with DOSbox, ScummVM etc).

If you can get over the expense (given I own a PC for other reasons anyway, the cost of turning it into a gaming rig isn't that much extra), PCs have many advantages over consoles:

Higher resolutions
More choice of inputs (many games, especially multiplats, support the 360 controller natively, for those who can't give up the controller)
Games are moddable
30yr catalog of games to play (and if you get into emulation, pretty much every system except for this and last gen is playable too)

Of course there are disadvantages, but it isn't like consoles don't have their disadvantages. My PC sits under the TV along side my consoles, and is just another system for enjoying my games on.

PC gaming is king

Err no, you don't need to upgrade PCs... of all the game environments, PC is the most backwards compatible hardware wise. The perfect example are the best games, Blizzard's, they run on shitty rigs just fine.

I have no problem playing on my €500 PC bought in 2003, sure it's not all at full settings, but I can play pretty much anything that came out in the past 2 years. The only reason I don't is because I have a new laptop (yeah that's more expensive) that can run everything in high settings...

You WERE right about fifa controls and similar games.... it used to be hard to find a decent gamepad, but nowadays, with MS pushing their X360 gamepad on PC and developpers going for it, controls are just as easy on a PC than on any console for these games.... you can even have wireless controlers too, so nothing is exclusive to consoles.

For FPS PC haters, one question: Have you tryed adjusting the sensitivity of the mouse when you played? (always an option in game for that... and it does a hell of a difference for an M&K beginner)

Real time strategy games, best life(you can upgrade components) PC can also be used for work/school/music/msn/facebook/emails. Best graphics, options for 360 controllers (as well as the distinct control sceme of keyboard and mouse). A few amazing exclusives (world in Conflict,crysis, WOW, Starcraft (and the nearly here starcraft2). Has an amazing back catalougue, is easy to get online with. Theres lots of great reasons to play PC!

I agree with you that this is a rather silly thread (especially the controls part and the price part) but unless you have some dedicated gaming room a lot of the things you reccomend about connecting PC to TV are highly impractical.... IF I had a gaming room or at least had the space around the TV in our living room, I would first need 2 PCs because I don't wish to work/browse in my living room. Then I would need some kind of awkward work around to use a mouse on my couch. Then I would be annoyed because I don't have a HD tv.

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So for me at least, these are my options:

Buy a Wii - £180 + games/controllers etc... (Ignoring games I think I have spent about £280 on the machine and perephrials (not including Wii wheel but is including Wii play as a controller, not a game... and includes WM+ though it came with Tiger '10)

Buy an extra PC (I am a normal consumer so I wouldn't really know what to do about building one... I would end up in PC World).... The cheapest PC I have seen here is £300, I would assume that is not enough for running the most modern games well enough, so I will say £400. Then buy cables for connecting PC to TV, and a controller to connect to the PC, (say £50 for all of them?)
Then buy some kind of table to fit over me while on the couch... perhaps like you get for eating in a hospital bed.
Oh, and buy a new TV.

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Although bare in mind a PC I might have bought back in early 2007 (when I got the Wii) would probably have been even more if wanted it to run todays games.... I mean I know laptops are not meant for gaming, but I bought my current one in 2005 for £800 and it can't run anything more modern than GTA:Vice City. I suppose that could probably be solved if I build this PC myself, but I wouldn't have the first clue what to do about that. I don't even know anywhere I could buy a stack without getting the monitor etc.

Although I own a console I find the controls clunky and it is really the ability to play some games in the living room and use the other media functions that I have one at all. I am the reason Microsoft believe they need to invest in Natal.

For me the benefits of PC gaming are many and cost can be neglible or it can be enormous but that entirely depends on the user. I last invested in my rig some 2 years ago but it still runs the games I play today and the resolution supported by my monitor in this case 16 by 10 widescreen.

My graphics card is showing its age but not enough to warrant replacing it yet but if I do they are now just over £100 to get one that will improve matters. I could add some more memory but that would only help with Supreme Commander on the really huge maps when I get a bit of slow down.

This weekend I will be going to a LAN party. I could take my console with me but I will not as I will have my hands full just playing PC games. If you are in the south of England I hope to see you there http://www.thebiggame.org/

You are deffinately not educated when it comes to PC gaming;

You are a PC gamer for FPS, RTS,MMOs

those are the true genre that the PC excels at

if you aren't into those type of games then don't bother, but Diablo3 StarCraft2 and a shit load of MMOs are on the way.

Granted you can spend 1000$ dollars on a PC and it can always do more than a console( Keyboard+Mouse standard) ( 360 controller compatible). Remember a console tries to be like a pc with thier "browser" ( PS3,wii), tries to be like a pc with ( Keyboard and mouse option) but ultimately they are not and if you're getting a pc but you consider your self a console player then you've fallen into the pc wannabe console player ( no other way I can put it).

If you think console control is better than PC , then please do your self justice and PROPERLY configurate the FPS setup. Because it's like you saying using your PS3 controller is better for FPS than the M+K & Wiimote.

I have this Laptop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZdTZTHSNHA&feature=related