@Ironman
At this point I can't understand if you're in good faith and oblivious to elementary logic, or you're playing deaf.
Because you're again mixing up two different contexts.

Your living room might also be your gaming room, because that's where you have your consoles or your billiard table. And still it's a room and it's a living room. These are not mutually exclusive concepts.

The Merriam-Webster definition of a Personal Computer: "a general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (as a word processor or Internet browser) for an individual user"

An iPhone respects this definition in full.

The versatility that you perceive has nothing to do with it because nowhere in the definition it is written that a PC has to perform task x,y and z to be called so. Only that it must be multi-purpose, the variety of its capabilities depending on the software you write for it.

As I said, most people will tell you that they know very well the difference between a computer and a console, or a smart phone and a computer. That doesn't make less true that the strict definitions you find in dictionaries -and that you quoted- don't allow such an easy distinction and don't make those mutually exclusive.

I really don't think that repeating these same concepts another time would be any useful for any reader of this thread, so it's off and out for me.

its similar to consoles but its not.

I fail to see the point of this thread. Enlighten me.

PCs can play games, Macs can play games, so can cellphones, PSPs, DSs, XBoxs, PS3s, Wiis, Ataris....etc. Whats the point.

Different people have preferences on how they like to game. And yet we game on. What does it matter if someone wants to call a PC a console or not?

I can now game from my couch with my PC, and I can surf the web on my Wii, I can even program games on my Atari. With the current technology of LCD, Plasma, and OLED screens there is not much of a difference between a TV and a computer monitor except that TV's have built in TV tuners....

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@ Puffy, Obviously, it is not to some people, I give you exibit A.

@WiiBox, The point of this thread is to define whether or not the PC is a gaming console. That is all. The reason it matters is because fanboy arguments are generally based around symantics and perceived differences / likenesses of a Gaming console and a PC. All I am doing is trying to give people a thread they can referance to stop said arguments and hopefully bring a little more perspective to where each person is coming from.  

So what is the concensus?

Log me down in the camp of a PC not being a console!

Oh, please. Let's leave it at that.

You're not reading what I'm writing or not understanding what I wrote already at least two times.

Since -whatever the reason might be- you're not understanding, the least you can do is not put words into my mouth and thus remove my name from the list you're compiling in your OP.

Technically it is, but that is not what you are arguing here. A PC is a console, not a video game console but it is a console.

A console is a term meaning to control, and in the terms for computer control or monitoring unit of the computer.

A PC is not described as a processor. A processor, is a processor(DUHHHHHHHHHH). A PC is shorthand for personal computer. Computer by definition is a processor, since it computes data. However a Personal Computer needs to be a console, to control it. Else you wouldn't be able to input data.

Also what you need to know is this simple logic.

"All Catholics are christian, but not all Christians are Catholic."

Once you understand that you'll understand this logic.

"All Video Game Consoles are Consoles, but not all Consoles are Video Game Consoles."
and
"All Video Game Consoles are PCs, but not all PCs are Video Game Consoles."

If you have a personal computer, it's a PC, no matter the format it's in. A PS3, 360, nes, wii, etc and for most all share the needs to be classified a PC. The reason they are not called PCs, even though they can be, is because they are dedicated for Video Games. So we Gave them the name basically, video game console, or control of video games.

well duh, a PC can be used as a gaming platform, but is not a gaming console

It seems you aren't reading some people's posts very carefully, I'm in the wrong group.