ease of online and compatibility issues with software/hardware are what did the most damage to pc gaming - nothing was ever standardized, and every install experience was a crapshoot
i will totally cop to both of those being plusses for console gaming
hell, half the games i wanted to buy during this crazy steam sale have issues with vista/win7 and you have to jump through hoops to get them running
it doesn't bother me that much since i am mostly a SP gamer nowadays, but when it's easier to get a game of mario kart wii going than a game of borderlands on pc, you know there's something screwy