Unlikely. Those sorts of people don’t usually show up to ask this question. 
Here’s the thing- each of them have their own tradeoffs.
PCs may be the most capable and have the best looking and sounding games, but at the cost of having to fiddle with drivers and settings, and being stuck in the hardware upgrade rat-race every year or two. Plus, due to the rather variable character of PCs and drivers, games are often buggy and require a few patches to get right. In game chat can be good, or you can kludge it up with Skype or Ventrilo or whatever, but again, it’s fiddling.
Consoles aren’t necessarily as powerful or capable as PCs, but IMO, seem to be pretty much bulletproof. There’s no driver fiddling or anything like that- games just run. Same with in-game chat like Xbox Live or the PS equivalent. Since there’s ONE platform for each console version, the games tend to be less buggy and more stable than PC games.
Ultimately though, if your buddies all play console games and you’re into multiplayer, get whatever it is that they play. Or if you’re into a particular style of game like historical simulation games or wargames, get what they run best on (PCs most likely). Or if you want to play some series that’s an Xbox or PS exclusive, then get the appropriate console.
But if you don’t do a lot of multiplayer, and you want to play the big cross-platform games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Destiny, etc… then weigh your willingness to upgrade and fiddle for the best gameplay vs. the ease of playing on a console.
This is true… but it’s not something that happens all the time. There is no fiddling with drivers for people on modern PC’s with modern OS’s. Drivers auto update in the background and never bother me.
Very seldomly I’ll purposely initiate a driver update. This entails clicking a button. I’m not sure I’d call that fidlding.
There is no need to upgrade, assuming you start with base modern hardware.
PC gamers might WANT to upgrade as the year progress, but it’s almost always optional. If you pick up a $200 GPU today, you cna enjoy games probably for the next 8+ years at PS4-like levels.
Now, in 4 years, when PS4 like levels look like ass compared to a contemporary PC, you might WANT to upgrade, but that’s up to you.
99 times out of a hundred my PC gaming experience is BETTER, EASIER, more enjoyable than my Xbone gaming experience. There is that 1 time out of a hundred when something goes wrong, but typically that is resolved shortly by the dev, or I’m dealing with a beta product in early access, and I know what I’m getting myself into.
There’s no need to chase hardware with a PC. A computer that’s comparable to a PS4 now will be comparable to a PS4 four years from now. Games are made using console tech as their base so you won’t be left out by not upgrading. You might miss out on super-awesome ultra high def or something but you’ll always hit that base level until the next console jump. Until the new consoles started pushing things a little, tech requirements for PC games have been laughably low for the last several years.
Drivers haven’t been an issue for awhile, and consoles aren’t inherently more stable I don’t think, just very few hardware variations to worry about. It seems to me that the rate of driver updates has decreased exponentially (or more logarithmic?) in recent years. I can’t remember the last time I had to go through the whole update ordeal with forced restarts and Steam handles updates for at least non-legacy ATI and Nvidia drivers.
I guess I’ve had most of the components in my computer since 2010 or 2011. I might want to upgrade if I wanted to play Crysis-esque things, but even most FPS type things are playable with reasonable if not perfect frame rates.
Nerdy? Hello you there in 1988, greetings from 2014. In the future portraying someone who can operate a computer and play games as nerdy is hideously outdated. Invest in Microsoft and Apple. Hopefully your grandmother will still be around to discover Zynga. 
Could be that I finally bailed out of the PC rat-race right about the time that hardware quit being something I had to upgrade every year or two if I wanted to play games close to the max specs.
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It does a lot more than just games, and runs a huge amount of games really well. I don’t plan on buying any console ever again.
Max specs? No, you’ll have to upgrade on a semi-regular basis if you want “max specs”. But we’re comparing it to a console, right? You’ll never get PC max specs quality graphics from a console but you can easily get console quality graphics from a PC. And, since the console hardware doesn’t change, once you hit that quality with a PC you’re pretty much good for the life of the console if you’re using that as your benchmark.
Any speculation as to how long this console generation will last? Last one was what, 8 years?
Xbox360 took about 1 year for a worthwhile game (Gears of War, for those who like it) to come out, right? How about the PS3?
I always thought the “you have to upgrade every 5 minutes/6 months/2 years” argument was stupid. No, you get to upgrade if you want to. Technology improves at an amazing rate, and locking yourself into one set of capabilities for a decade is not a benefit. Do you still use the same phone you had in 2004?
It’s not “oh geez, I gotta spend another $200 when I just did it two years ago”, it’s “holy shit, $200 now will get me amazing shit I’ve never seen before, technology is awesome”
Even besides that, saying “I’m staying consoles because you have to upgrade PCs” makes no sense. You can simply stay at your current PC’s capabilities for as long as you’d own a console if you want. Will you see new technology and improvement in speed, capabilities, and features? No, but you won’t see those with a console either.
So the upgrade option is unquestionably an advantage. If you choose not to partake, then you’re in the same boat as you would be if you had a console. If you do, it means you can take advantage of the amazing pace of technological advancement whenever you want to.
You’d think some people’s ideal world would be playing with Atari 2600s for 30 years. Imagine the dollar per hour ratio of entertainment you’d get out of it, never having to worry about upgrading.
Since the OP seems to be asking about choosing a console, I’m going to ignore the whole “PC is best!” hijack.
The XBox is NOT cheaper this generation. When it launched the XBox One was $100 more expensive than the PlayStation 4 and now they’re the same price. General opinion is that the PlayStation 4 is slightly more powerful, but the difference in experience is really tiny. However, the PS4 is outselling the XB1 almost 2:1 worldwide and even has a slight edge in the U.S. where Microsoft dominated last generation. So, if you don’t have a reason to choose XBox (a particular exclusive, a network of friends who have XBoxes) go with PlayStation. With it’s larger install base it will probably become the primary target platform for new games over the next few years.
Choose the Wii only if you really want to play Nintendo exclusives (Mario Kart, Smash Bros.) and are willing to put up with a weaker system to do so. (This is totally valid, BTW. Nintendo makes great games.)
Sorry, I did not see my comment as a hijack at all. I was just trying to participate in the thread by saying I think the best platform is PC. I was a bit confused by his OP, since it listed cross-generational choices. I figured he was just trying to get the conversation going and was not limiting it to consoles.
You’re missing the point I was trying to make, and that’s that game developers for PCs tend to make their games for the state of the PC hardware when the games are released. This means that over a say… 8 year span, the max and min specs for your average PC game has changed significantly. Consoles change in much larger increments, but much more slowly.
I personally have both (really 3- upgraded PC, XBone, and a Xbox 360), and that was the thing I noticed about the consoles- I never had to sweat that my PC might not meet the specs for a new game like I did/do with my PC.
Essentially, if you want the very best gaming experience, PCs supply that- the state of the art tends to be faster and more capable than even the latest consoles. The drawback is that the state of the art changes- what was awesome in 2005 is a craptastic PC now.
Consoles don’t change, so at the end of their lifecycle, they’re kind of long in the tooth compared to PCs, and usually start out near, but not at the state of the art for PCs. But that 2005 era Xbox 360 will still play any Xbox 360 game as well as any other Xbox 360.
This hasn’t really been the case for a while. These days, developers tend to make the game first for consoles and then port it to PC so the specs required stayed pretty static. You’d have some who added in the option for higher resolution graphics or things like that so you could use new tech if you had it but it was hardly required. I have a spare computer I threw together out of old parts I had lying around (Clarksdale i3-560 processor, 9800 GTX+ video card) that can play essentially any game from 2013 or before despite being 2009-2010 technology and it was budget-level tech even then. Even now it can play most anything except for the latest AAA releases.
When I say “can play”, I’m talking graphics set to medium (not Ultra but not Low either) although it handled things like Skyrim fine on High settings. But that’s what we’re talking about. I have a better gaming PC than the one I built because I want to take advantage of better graphics, not because I’m shut out otherwise. Consoles and the way developers make games these days has seriously held PC gaming back on the “What’s cutting edge” front but for the budget PC gamer, it’s probably been a boon.
Which is to say, not at all well…
That’s the point. You can absolutely play games for the rest of this generation with equivalent PC gaming hardware to say a PS4, at PS4 levels. In other words equality.
With PC, however, you CAN, but do not have to, upgrade. And in 3 years when gorgeous 3K 21:9 monitors are cheap, and a single GPU can drive them, you might just want to upgrade. Or when PC versions of games, or PC exclusives come out with amazing graphical features not available on PS4, you might just want ot upgrade to enjoy them.
Or not. You can stick to PS4 level graphics and performance. The choice is yours. And that’s the point with all things PC. The CHOICE is available to you. There are no choices on consoles. BF4 is 50 FPS, 900p medium-high setting son a PS4 and that’s that. On PC, if you have better hardware, well, Ultra awaits you. But maybe you’d rather have a full 1080p, native frame and you don’t care about contact hardening shadows, so you turn them off, and boom, you got 1080p. YOU get to decide.