Bottom line: I am a GAMER, not a PC Gamer or a Console Gamer. I can appreciate both, and I especially appreciate when developers don’t cater to the “consoles are for kids” mentality and actually put out some console games with depth.

Otherwise, sometimes I just don’t feel like sitting at my desk in front of a monitor with my hands on a keyboard and mouse. It’s nice to stretch out on the couch with a widescreen HDTV, wireless controls, and get some game on. Certain types of games lend themselves to consoles as well. Tomb Raider for example just feels more natural with a gamepad and is not the type of experience I’d care to have at my desk. I cut my teeth on FPS starting with Duke3D then Quake on til now with BF2142, but I can also appreciate how the console controls work, especially after Halo. BioShock, again, I’d rather do it on the console since it’s not a fast-paced run-n-gun shooter. It’s slower and tells a story, and for that I’d rather have it on the big screen. (Bonus: I get to avoid its nasty copy protection)

I game for the experience, and I like to have all types of experiences, and a single platform can’t yet give me all of them.

Typically I find that even if I do find a game I like on the console I don’t enjoy playing it with the gamepad and wait to get it on the PC so I can use a keyboard/mouse (I’m a diehard WASD user).

So for more it really comes down the the controls, and the fact the majority of game genres like FPS’s, RTS’s, and MMO’s are pretty much exclusive to PC’s for my tastes.

This hasn’t been a recent thing either, I’ve done it before buying the original XBOX and that collected quite a bit of dust too.

I will say that I’ve changed which genres I’m willing to play on each. The big change for me is the FPS. Even 3 years ago, I wouldn’t play an FPS or even a third person shooter on a console. Now, unless I’m expecting solid mods to come out for them, I tend to prefer my FPSes there. Part of that is having a much nicer setup, in terms of screen size and sound, on the consoles. Part of it is that I can spend some time cuddled up on the couch with my wife enjoying the storylines as they unfold, as with Bioshock. If the Marvel MMO on the 360 is any good, I may start playing MMOs there as well.

all of my ~45 hours per week gaming is done on a PC - i swear i’ll get around to buying a console one day, but then i’ve been saying that since the SNES was released.

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I have maintained a ‘gaming PC’ since the early 90s when I started playing NeverWinter Nights on AOL.

I don’t really play or buy consoles anymore, mostly because the games they produce just aren’t my style anymore and the cost is prohibitive to the total enjoyment I get out of a game. At one point in College we had 5 consoles hooked up to our TV with close to 500 games to chose from, and we played the hell out of Tony Hawk 2, Twisted Metal II (PS), Goldeneye (N64), FFIII, Zelda, Rock&Roll Racing (N)

Most console games lack consistant replayability. I mean the 4-5 hours a day for weeks or months on end type of replayability, that I derive from MMOs. True exceptions to that were Tony Hawk and Twisted Metal. We probably logged 1000 hours on those two games…

However, I really like Age of Conan, so I might get a new PC after all… we’ll see.