the PC platform gets a bad rap because when you say PC gaming, people almost always think of the enthusiast market, which is a very small market (they're very loud on the Internet, though.) There are a lot of people who game perfectly fine on midrange/budget builds. These days there are even people who are doing well without a discrete videocard (AMD's APUs have already made most mid-range and all low-end videocards somewhat unnecessary, and Intel's offerings have already improved by leaps and bounds.)
