For me, PC rules them all, if I had to decide between my consoles or my computer, the choice would be a no brainer. That being said, there are a lot of people who enjoy not working past compatability issues, driver problems, hardware failures, data loss, ect, ect. Every rose has it's thorns and PC gaming is a perfect example of it. Consoles are the "safer" bet, any game you buy for your console is going to work without a problem most times. Can't count the number of times I've gotten a new PC game home to find out it won't work for me right off or has some annoying technical problem that I can't overlook. Example: I just got Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, and I have a great PC gaming setup, yet there is an annoying "hiccup" issue that occurs every few seconds that absolutely ruined the game for me since I can't make it go away no matter how many settings I change. Borrowed the 360 version from a friend and despite the platform being technically inferior, it ran without a hitch.
I can totally understand why people would avoid gaming on a PC, but I have fun working through a lot of the "issues" of PC gaming and have gotten used to not being able to unpackage a game and jump right in. If anything, I think the main reason people shy away from PC gaming is that technical problems can ruin the experience if you don't have the know-how or inclination to overcome them. Just watch the boards and see how many people whine and cry without end when their 360 dies and they're without a console for a month. Just imagine a failed power supply, or a faulty hard disk going bad and losing huge amounts of data and save games, it's problems like that that turn people off to the platform in general and the stiff price of entry in the U.S. compared to consoles.
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