Which platform is the real loser?

The death of PC gaming has been proclaimed to be nigh for awhile now, but is it really console gaming that could be going out the door? Not that I think it's really in any danger, not everyone can afford to shell out thousands for their rig to play games (gives Mac Pro a loving pet). So here's my thought. We're in the, quote, "next generation" of gaming consoles with huge power-hungry processors and graphics doohickeys with teraflops coming out our ears, yet the hit title Gears of War coming out for PC runs smoother, has more levels and multiplayer modes, and Epic has recently confirmed that the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 is going to run faster than either console version. I seem to remember with the PS2 and Xbox that it wasn't till later in the life cycle that PC games started to really surpass consoles in graphics and gameplay. I could be making that up, but anyway. Here we are, barely a year and a half into this generation (less for Wii and PS3) and PC games are kicking the crap out of consoles, not to mention the fact that they're doing so while costing $10 less per title. We're also getting quite hosed on microtransactions in the various console shoppes, whereas the PC space has services like Steam that hand out lots of free bonus content for its games, and the fact that the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Chapter 2 map and modes pack was free for PC but $15 on consoles. It's starting to seem like us console people are being taken advantage of, a vessel for companies to make some quick cash off of our ignorance and gullibility, as well as those tools who jump on message boards to proclaim how incredibly offended they are that company X would charge us $XX for bonus content, but then end their tirade with "but I'll probably buy it anyway". For all this money we're spending on these microtransactions, could we simply be putting it aside in savings to get a solid PC rig to game on instead? You could just wait about 5 years for Halo 3 to hit the PC space (hey, it's like waiting for a game to be ported to Mac) and all will be well.