For years the console war has been going on, mainly between Microsoft’s XBox and Sony’s Playstation franchises. Nintendo’s Wii/DS doesn’t really factor in here because, apart from the odd game, Nintendo has always aimed towards the more casual gamer. At the moment it seems to be the XBox – v – Playstation when it comes to ‘proper’ games that take a real gamer to finish them on Expert with a blindfold. Whilst drunk.
The unexpected winner so far in the last few months is – surprisingly – the PC! Okay so it’s not a console, but there are alot of my favourite games purchased only recently (Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 and Mass Effect 2 to name a handful) that seem to be PC games that are adapted for console play.
Of course shooter games are always going to be better for the PC, for the fluidity of the mouse/aim controls, but lately it seems as though these games are only designed for consoles as an afterthought. Entire layouts of the game are changed, playability becomes more limited on a console, aiming is less accurate and slower, animations have to be toned down because the console can’t handle it… repeat ad nauseam.
Of course you have to have a pretty nifty PC for any decent game to work nowadays (Left 4 Dead 2 alone takes up a whopping 7 GB of hard drive space), but you ask any FPS gamer (even of the old original Half Life game) what they think of the PC version compared to the console version and you may be there a while because he won’t be able to stop laughing out of irritatingly smug joy.
When Rachel's not killing zombies or pratting about on Portal, she can be found sipping fine Hock with her friends, or kicking giant tubs of popcorn over at the cinema. 
I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one, the PC has not been winning the battle. To be able to play a game decently these days, you going to have to fork out quite a lot of cash, whereas with an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3 you can just put the disc in, they’ll be no questions wondering if the game will actually run.
I do admit that a lot of games are better on PC but paying that much just to the play the game is difficult these days with the recession. I don’t want to turn this into a big scale argument so I’ll finish.
No arguments here
I do agree with you on the financial point though: PC gaming can be an epic dent on your bank statement, given how often they’d need upgrading/replacing etc.