As for consoles vs PC. I have always been a PC gamer, but I have also owned every console that has been released in the last 8 years. Personally I will never move to console gaming because it can’t offer what PC gaming can. A computer has no boundaries for creation and modding. The graphics possibilities are endless, ie. Crysis. You will start to see consoles adding more and more features to their consoles that make them that much closer to PC’s and as Weclock said, eventually there will be no difference. Console gaming is an extremely restricted user PC… Console makes know this fully and are slowly releasing the limitless boundaries onto the consoles and personally I think consoles will seize to exist but there will be some type of standard that PC games are created on hardware wise.

Side note: Controllers suck for everything but sports games and racing games. FPS or RTS on consoles fail… The most recent example is Endwar, biggest disgrace to the RTS name and I feel bad for those console gamers who have never touched an RTS then went and played it… To sum it up consoles seem to give a low grade, novice form of what some types of gaming are really like and what they should look like. When somebody says Gears of War is the best looking game they have ever seen, it makes me want to cry. When they say its the best game ever, i still want to cry, but because thats opinionated I don’t like to argue that point. CS for life.

PC gaming is better on quality, customization, experience, and hardcore gaming.

Console gaming is better for cost, availability, plug and play gaming, and entry level gaming.

2.)it makes sense that most people purchase consoles, as they are easy to understand and don’t require any knowledge to operate, like a PC.

3.) First person shooter games have always been one of the most popular genre’s also, because its easy to play and understand, and theres no complexity to them at all. you can just turn them on, kill things. its a point and click game. Not that I’ve never played them, but I’m just saying compared to other games First person shooters are not that complex. so easy to play, easy to use consoles win again since most the genre moved to XBOX or PS3

4.) America is a violent country, think about it thats why sales are up on consoles in north America, I played fall out 3, that game is excessively violent.

5.) Each area of the world has a specific area of popularity in games, in japan its RPG driven games, which is why PS3 sales are higher there. its even made fun of that theres only a dozen XBOX owners there. In America, First person shooters reign supreme because violence is popular, In Europe, Strategy game’s are popular, which mostly debut on PC.

Think PC, is better suited for more complex games like Strategy games, as it requires more time to play as well as more interaction.

And let console be the easy fast action type games, that are quick to play and easier to understand, for those who are not comfortable with the use of a computer.

When you buy a console itll add up overtime at $60 dollars a game plus console add ons live service your looking at roughly the same price as a gaming rig only diffrence is youll HAVE to upgrade your pc is you wanna play ridiculously resource hungry games like Assasins Creed an Crysis now thats just nonsense when you play it just as well on PS3-360

I built a budget rig at $600 and im playing most games at high settings but come to find out NOBODYS Playing online I thought what a big waste until downloading games for free made up for the lack of online playability lol

Consoles are at the forefront of online/offline gaming.consoles are getting blockbuster hits nearly every month while PC will if there get a few ported to PC “lucky” and that wont be changing anytime soon the way PC is heading the future of gaming lies in consoles

PC will continue to struggle as it always has and it wont be what it was when consoles barely started to catch up in early 2000

Consoles already got all the PC hits UT 3 Quake Wars etc..and thats not gonna change,right now console gamers are having a ball playing Battlefield Bad Company which totaly pwnz! where is there PC version lol!!

Consoles are easier to crack! oh yes they are, get it chipped, download and burn a dvd and away u go. Although the wii are attempting to up its protection on DVD’s including chip detectors, it has still failed to stop the pirates.
Pc games often require several types of .exe files, and serial keys are blocked online.

I think it comes down to $$$$ :-
More kids buy consoles, therefore there are more out there on the streets. It takes half the time to develope a game on a console, 1 because it is set hardware and does not require code after code for different spec machines, and 2 software houses charge well over the odds for console games compaired to that of PC.

So when it comes down to it, which system is best? PC because the dam games are made on it in the first place! doh.

also, why is not being able to beef up your console a bad thing?
thats one thing i love about consoles, because if you want to buy a console game you can just pick it up, pay for it, go home and just play it, but not with a PC.

Overall, I think that you should all be happy, PC and console gamers alike, that we have two different venues of gaming available, both with their respective strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes I like hopping on a console with some hassle-free gaming, and other times I like hopping on my PC for some awesome mods like Garry’s Mod or the precision controls of a mouse. Losing one of them would not only hurt the industry financially, but most important of all, creatively.