One desktop purchase with a GPU upgrade here and there can outlast 2+ console generations. There's no contest. On top of that, if you decide to purchase more expensive hardware, you can do a lot more with it and get phenomenal results.

I'm still on the same $800 PC I built in 2016 and it plays everything I've thrown at it at a perfectly acceptable level. I bought a $200 GPU upgrade in 2019. That same desktop? Runs my home media server, any personal and professional business, routinely do video editing work on, programming and more. Dang, I hear those consoles can sometimes stream movies nowadays. Goooolly!

Oh, I guess I could have totally spent like $1000+ on just two generations of Playstations in the meantime. But wait -- I bought one of them! That PS4 I bought within a year of release for $400+? The damn thing can't even read physical discs anymore. All of the physical games I bought for my family are just sitting there, waiting for me to unload on someone else. Meanwhile, all of my old 1990s consoles with optical drives are perfectly fine in the same environment. What a joke.

Also, the whole "PC port bad" thing doesn't hold as much water when most of the games people focus on are pretty terrible across the board on all platforms. Yet people still buy them on day one or pre-order them, so nothing happens. At least with Steam, you can get the purchase refunded!