I so empathise, or is it empathize? Anyways, its the same old discussion I suppose, but it does grate me that you need a bottomless pit of dosh to enable your PC to run the latest version of resource needy software.
Yep, thats true... Currently, its madness, but in the same turn, the PC will always be top-dog when it comes to pixel pumping tech... Because the generation shift in terms of technology happens in months, where as a console, that cannot really happen, simply because console customers... ie you and me, expect our consoles to be supported by game publishers and manufacturers for at least 2-3 years.
If people bought a Wii when it first got released, then Nintendo release a new version with more power, but in turn, new game releases played less well on the original... They'd be uproar (Just look what happened to the PS3 and the backwards compatibility shenanigans)
I respect console game devs in a sense that they have a specific piece of hardware to support, and over the years... They will try and squeeze as much juice out of it as they can, where as in PC AAA game world, they just ask you to pump up your rig, or turn settings off/down
Which is no good really is it... To be fair!
Dabz