GRYWOLF1979:

But that's no reason to throw your Xbox in the trash.  Plenty of reasons to have a console.  For example, ever tried playing a car racing game on a PC?  A word of advice: DON'T.  Forza Motorsport, Grid, Burnout, NFS, Midnight Club, Project Gotham, etc., with a mouse and arrow keys?  No thank you!  Unless you're going to invest the money for a steering wheel plug-in, which you might as well just get one for the 360 instead.  There are some games you won't -- and *shouldn't* -- be able to get on PC.  

It's not just racing games, either.  A lot of games just wouldn't be the same on PC.  Grand Theft Auto on PC?  Not unless you want to feel like you're playing an ultraviolent version of The Sims.  Face it, some games are just better on consoles.  The selection and variety for console games is usually better.  The technology may not update as quickly as on a PC, but in the computer world, you're always one step behind anyway.  Who the hell wants to buy a new computer every year just to be able to play the newest PC title, when you can own a console and have dozens of new titles to pick from that will still run on your sputtering old Red Ring of Deathbox?

You are sooo wrong, I nearly had an heart attack reading this.

You simply do not understand the nature and the main difference of a PC to an console. A PC can adapt to anything, from an Office machine, over an entertainment center, gaming machine, data storage to an automation center for factory production control ... and many many more things which are only a matter of hardware combined with the specific software. On top of this it lays on your hands to specialise your PC in that area you want it to be. If you know how, you could write the software yourself or build hardware yourself. Thanks to standardised interface and programming languages the PC is an open platform. A console will never run anything other that was not designed or written for it ... it is a closed platform that can not be customised.

That said you can plug in any controller you want into the PC and use it for games. Nobody forces you to use keyboard and mouse. Want to use a 360 controller, well plug it in and use it ... mmh the PS3 controller is better because of Sixaxis, well no problem plug that one in and use it ... but I would like a Wee-mote, well ... you say, stay away from me with those silly console controllers, so how about a joystick, steering wheel, a touchscreen or trackball or a VR glove ... see where I am coming from.

I see no reason why any genre would not work on the PC, with one exception that is party or mulitplayer games that are played on a single screen, like for example fighting games. Single Player works very well on the PC too of course or you connect your PC to the TV in your living room where you can probably do multiplayer fighting games on a bigger screen and with a bigger audience.

Various ways that make owning any console redundant in my eyes!