I don't play consoles for a couple of reasons:

1) They hog titles for their console only (they are the ones playing politics there)

2) You have to buy a console for gaming only (redundant when I already have a general purpose machine that can play games)

3) They take a middleware fee on all the games that come out of their console, ensuring that you'll never see prices drop below a certain amount.

In the end, my funds are limited and I don't want to clutter my home and the environment with needless hardware.

I want games that are not platform specific (PC), I want one device to conquer them all (PC) and I want my games as efficient and cheap as possible (PC).

Cut out the hardware middleman and his stupid royalty fees on software already.

Hardware manufacturers should make money off selling hardware, not by gouging and holding hostage software companies that make software compatible with their hardware.

The updates are small, handled entirely by the machine and automatic. How does that combat plug and play? Also games work without them, just not online.

The game I am referring to doesn't even have online play.

It refused to run unless I updated the console.

So?

The update process is simple and plug and play, so how the hell could that stop the entire gaming experience being simple and plug and play? I don't get your argument. If you want to say forced updates are WRONG, okay maybe, but that has nothing to do with what I said.

Because it could brick your console.

That causes a pretty abrupt stop to the gaming experience..