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I'm sorry but the whole 'you can play all those games on PC anyway! argument just falls flat most of the time.
Roughly 80% of PS3 and 360 games never got PC releases, almost zero PS1 or PS2 (or original Xbox, but that did have more) got PC ports. Yes Yes theres emulators, which yes are awesome, I love emulators, but so far they're still limited to PS1 and PS2 + DS and PSP of course (and anything older).
3DS, PS3 and so on EMus have a long ways to go before they're good enough, I can't wait for that day personally, but I know its a ways off.
And then you've got Nintendo, a company thats just never going to go the PC route for first party, partly because they're stubborn, but mostly because the console market IS Japan, sure Japan has plenty of Pc gamers, mostly playing MMO's, a few RPGS and generally Visual Novels (since those are like 90% PC). So even a company like Sony mainly avoids PC because Console is a bigger market for their customer base right now. Microsoft, well tbh I sort I feel like if its a western developer then they don't really have much excuse, especially if its Xbox only.
Could have built a very nice PC for the money spent on consoles is sort of true, but its location dependent.
A good PC for $600 is common, a good PC for 450 Euros is not, nor is it for £350, us has cheaper PC parts, annoyingly so.
Excluding graphics cards, updating and so on, I'll point out the main benefit of consoles, optimization, consoles force developers to plan ahead, to think whats going to slow them down. Which means when a PC port does come along its not going to require ridiculous hardware, FF13 and 13-2 are examples of this (yes yes they are bad PC ports, but thats not the point, they still don't require insane hardware). MGSGZ is another example of that.
PC gaming IS awesome, but people keep trying to compare it with consoles, and a large portion of the time the comparisons don't quite work as its 2 different markets. Even from the perspective of lets say a parent who's not tech savvy, buy their kid a PS4 or Xbox or WiiU and they know they can only buy what they want to buy the kid. Give the kid a PC and access to internet, they need to be a little tech savvy to setup firewalls, antivirus, user account protection. And even then they still run the risk of their kid hitting porn, or games above his age group, or the general 'fear of the internet', consoles don't have this.
Now yes this is stupid parents, but you should also consider how many people really are like that anyway, a console is just easier in many ways, especially as a gift.
