Playing Clue every Thanksgiving and Christmas . <| sep |> I don ' t know how the costs stack up , but if something in your desktop PC breaks , you just swap in a new part and you ' re back in business . Where when a console breaks , it just turns into a useless brick . Throwing away my bricked PS 3 was just awful , knowing there were still working parts in it , and one stupid problem somewhere had bricked the whole thing . Then there ' s the backwards compatibility , because Windows is used in business , there ' s a real priority to support older software . And as a result , I can still play games from ~ 1999 , or earlier if I want to do a bit of tinkering . That ' s one hell of a backcatalogue . From the same era , I still have my Dreamcast , but the laser is broken . so I ' m shit out of luck with that . There are many good things about consoles , but thinking longterm , I have piles of console discs I can ' t even play anymore because the hardware didn ' t last .