I personally would much rather have a PC, given a choice between having one or the other. When I have had both in the past, I have always wound up with a console that's gathering dust.

However, that depends on what you're doing with it and what you want. Consoles have their own strong points:

• Less setup/troubleshooting/maintenance.

• Because the platform is locked down, harder for other players to cheat in multiplayer competitive online games. The PC is open.

• Everyone has more-or-less the same hardware, which is typically desirable for 3D multiplayer competitive video games. No "get a more expensive and powerful video card to get a slight edge".

• There is basically one standard controller, so games in the game library are more likely to support the features of your controller (assuming, of course, that you're using a controller on the PC).

• Some platform-exclusive games (and obviously that cuts both ways, and the PC library is much larger, but if you very specially want some of the PS5 exclusives, you need a PS5 to do it).