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Posted by: Vi Britannia
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Posted by: RustedEdge
PC is the best.
For people who want to put down large amounts of money for high-quality hardware, yes, computers have far more gaming power. For almost all games, mind you, a keyboard and mouse are absolutely horrible, and anyone who wants to argue that point needs to be bricked.
However, consoles are generally pointed towards a less-hardcore crowd. Consoles are relatively cheap (compare $300 for a new seventh-gen console to the at least $800 required to build a good gaming rig) and come ready to go. They also have a slower dev cycle - PCs have their technology outmoded relatively fast, and the wide variety of hardware gamemakers have to deal with complicates the issue and is guaranteed to make hardware problems rampant. Comepare to a console, of which there are only a number of major competitors (right now it's really only the PS3 and Xbox, as the Wii caters to an entirely different crowd) which means two hardware setups to cater to, and they aren't constantly changing.
There's also a number of features Consoles have over PCs (and while I understand PCs are obviously much more diverse than any console, I mean in a strictly game-related sense). For example, you can't splitscreen on a computer. Or at least not easily. With a console, if you have multiple controllers, you can have multiple players. Consoles can be hooked up in 20 minutes (depending on how difficult your location is) whereas PCs are rather hard to take from place to place.