9. PC games are stylistically unbounded. It's like : Anything consoles can do, PCs can do better. Seriously. There's nothing consoles offer that PCs (and PC games) can't, and that's strictly a one-way street. Anything that requires fast-switch precision movement's out the window on 360, Wii, or PS3. Real-time strategy games are a joke a console, and while certain types of tactical third-person shooters work well enough, a decent mouse/keyboard gamer will repeatedly roast someone panning around with a pair of comparably clumsy thumb-sticks. Don't get me started on the complete lack of console support for serious simulations and wargames.

11. PC games cost less. I'm not saying it makes a lick of sense (it doesn't) but Epic's Gears of War cost 60 bucks when it debuted on the 360. When it hit the PC with brand new content, that price dropped to $50, and that's still the going rate for PC A-listers. A $10 delta may not sound like much if you only buy a few games a year, but even two games a month is pushing $240 -- enough to fund a new Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii every 365 days.

12. Online PC matchmaking is free. I realize , and analysts claiming Xbox Live offers something unique simply wrong. It's worth remembering that online PC matchmaking and multiplayer are, and always have been free. It's not a luxury item, it's not a special service, it's not a value proposition -- it's an entrenched and completely reasonable customer expectation.

13. Piracy ain't just a PC problem. Console piracy rates barely scratch the PC's numbers, but the former's aren't exactly waning either. It's the popularity derivative, stupid. The more people playing console games, the more the scene lasers in on a console's proprietary padlocks, the more increasingly end-user-friendly workaround hacks and mod-jobs and firmware-fooling pre-insert ROM disc tools flood the market. While there may be cash to grab short-term by switching gears, therefore, abandoning the PC over piracy rates may be yet another iteration of the "grass-is-greener" myth.

14. PCs excel at family-hotseat-group-play, too. First of all, was working the lines long before the likes of . Second, sure, there's stuff like and, you know, on tap, but they're still a tiny fraction of the broader number of family-friendly party games you can pull up (many for free) and play on your PC, whether piped through an office monitor or jacked into your Dolby-plasma master-lounge-center.