Can't confirm that with me Nesrie, I"m at Xbox360 #2, only because mine got stolen 2 Christmas ago, while I send my computers 3-5 times at the store to get repaired due to fuck-ups and whatnot.

You know how many times i have to send my PC to the store for mess ups... zero times. I don't need you to confirm the 360 issues, there is plenty of data freely available out there about 360 fail rate, over 50% according to some sources (Game informer).

As far as PC hardware requirements, I had a pleasant surprise recently. 

I run a GTS 250 card myself which is good mid-range card and smoothly powers through every game I've thrown at it.

My wife's compter has a low-end card, a fairly new 9500 GT.  I'm trying to broaden my wife's gaming horizons with some adventure games.  She's been strictly a traditional puzzle gamer forever.  Puzzle games typically have very low hardware requirements so she never needed a card with much horsepower.  

I found that my wife's inexpensive low-end card could run modern 3D adventure games smoothly with no AA and high texture settings.  I didn't think that would happen.  I thought for sure I would have to get her a better card.  So, you certainly don't need to spend a lot of money to play games on a PC.  The cost argument for PC versus console doesn't hold any water for me anymore.

The utility of any PC overshadow's what a console can do and will likely ever do due to licensing rights associated with consoles. The power of a PC will most likely always overshadow what a console can do.

Consoles have always fit the nitch that allows households to play video games without the fear of having to troubleshoot complex hardware and software issues. Heck, even my 60 year old mom and dad play video games on a Wii. This just isn't feasible for most when it comes to figuring out issues with PC games. We have also donated old consoles and games to charities knowing that some lucky kid will be able to enjoy the games. I would never consider this with a PC.

I do wonder how multi-player gaming will impact PC game sells in the future for titles that exist on PS3, 360 and the PC. Given each system have isolated player bases, this may influence someone to buy on the 360 or PS3 because the player base may be perceived as larger or more consistent. I find this compelling as I can't play against my son in COD MW2 on his 360 with my gaming PC. My only choice is to purchase the game for my 360 if I want to play the game with him. Yes, we have two 360's mainly because I caved to get my kids off the main T.V., plus we use my 360 for dvd's and netflix in addition to games.

In short I have enjoyed games for Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Playstation, Wii, Xbox and PC games over the last 30 years and plan to continue to play good games when time permits regardless of the system.

I use a 40" TV as my PC mointor so that wouldn't be a problem.

There is one possiblilty I will buy consoles. It all comes down to motion controls, the future possiblity of the PC not having said motion controls (and thus inherinatly not any exclusive games based on them)  and developers doing very good things with said controlers. Also if Daivd Cage makes another game thats console exclusive, I might buy one then. And then kill him. (Not really. I wouldn't buy one, Id still kill him though.) (Actualy both of those were jokes, David Cage's life is safe in my hands. But only if he dosn't do another game with an "AI" in it.)

Anyway back to the motion controller. I doubt there will be a single developer that creates a must play game based on motion control. On PC TrackIR and the like only help you out, not make the game but Ill keep watching.

And the PC Gaming Alliance would agree. Last year, according to their retail studies, PC gaming profits went up 3%. The thing is, fewer and fewer PC titles are being bought in a retail environment anymore, and since Steam, Impulse, Gamersgate and Direct2Drive (or direct buys from a publisher's web site) aren't tracked, those numbers don't 'count'. In fact, retail only counts for 20% of PC sales these days, hence the reason the numbers seem to be dropping like a rock.

"An X-Box 360 is really nothing more than an outdated gaming PC w/ a stripped down version of Windows"

LoL. An XBOX is a box with parts who are setup to do only one thing = play games. Hardware and software is all optimazed just for this one purpose. There is no 3rd party drivers or services in background which eats up resources. Sure you can outperform console. But when ps3 was released you wouyld have to spent aroun 1500-2000$ to match its performance. Where the console itself was about 700-800$.

Why do you think there is no PS3 or Xbox360 emulators out there (and still wont be for fev nice years). To emulate PS 2 games

(with 300mHz CPU, 32 RDRAM and 4 mb graphic card running at 147 mHz) emulator developers recomend you to use Core 2 duo @ 3,2 ghz or better, 8600 gt or better and 1 gig of ram.

Now imagine we will get OS that is only focused on 1 thing: Playing games. What a glorius day that would be

You counter my argument how? Yes, yes, gaming PC's out perform consoles, so you agree. For that $2,000 you can do a lot more than just game with said PC though, and have better gaming at that.

What the hell dude.  PS3 has a browser and you can install Ubuntu on it.  360 has neither.

Wow.  Yes.  I'll totally get my facts straight...if anyone in this thread actually agrees with you.

Otherwise, you're completely clueless.

The pc gaming is dying argument was just something made up by game companies who want people to only buy games on consoles so gamers would have to be forced to pay for mods and the like.  It will never die since all games are produced on pc's and not all gaming companies are that money hungry.  also rts,sim and fps are easier to play on pc and will always have a fanbase there.

Only easier because of mouse. But this baby will change it LOL