4. PCs can be anywhere. If you're living in the 1970s, you think computers still hunker in lightless basements, or converted linen closets, or musty shag-carpeted attics. I've never parked my PC anywhere other than a desk/armoire/piped-and-fluted-hybrid in a living room within cabling distance of my Dolby-fied flat-screened piece-de-resistance. Swapping between a desktop LCD and your likely larger living room variety is a snap, not to mention that doing so offers more audio/video playback options than any of the console manufacturers.
5. Keyboard and mouse beats all. We've yet to see an interface as intuitive and broadly commanding, including (without question) Nintendo's Wiimote and nunchuk.
6. PCs do gamepads, surprise! Take that, all you blinkered QWERTY mockers. Got an Xbox 360 controller? Plug it into your PC and games like and adapt instantly. What's more, I dare anyone to invoke a console's comparably foggy web browser and tap out a response to this point cycling through detached-panel ASCII symbols and frantically pulling triggers, one tedious sequential character at a time.
7. Consoles go kaplooey, too. I'll see your "blue screen" and raise you a "red ring" or two (or 33 percent of total, if were accurate). Just leave your pity for PC gamers at the door, because consoles are just as prone to bellying up when something short circuits in quality control. (Because, hate to break it to you, consoles are PCs too!) And memo: Game-breaking creepy-crawlies and PC-style firmware updates and patches have consoles on the hook these days, too.
8. Consoles could vanish tomorrow, but PC gaming is forever. Planning to solve for the unified theory of everything while lounging on your sofa in front of you new 50-inch plasma power-gobbler? Chances are, not so much. Feng Shui your heart out, you still need a place to spread the tree-ware and focus without distractions. Vive la PC! In the end, PC gaming soldiers on in part because the business-to-casual range of what we're all up to, day-to-day, remains wildly PC-centric. "And it plays games too?" There you go.