You by yourself won't cause PC games to go away. But if enough other gamers abandon PC for consoles, even more major game studios will consider the PC unprofitable.

In that case, does this page sum up something close to your position?

Integrated graphics have become adequate, and I don't see how a PC with integrated graphics is especially "loud" or "power sucking" compared to a PS3, 360, PS4, or Xbox One. I may be willing to grant you "fiddly" and "horrible" if you can explain them.

Even a dual-core scores fine in the "does it run emulators" column that damnbunni's post mentioned.

Just to make sure I understand you correctly:

In other words, make sure key labels are correct for the current key bindings, and not hardcoded to the names of Xbox 360 controller buttons. Also make options in on-screen menus clickable with the mouse.

How could such an explanation be done correctly?

In other words, Steam Big Picture is atypical. And what's the difference between a 1080p HDTV and a 1080p desktop PC monitor, or between a 720p HDTV and a 720p laptop monitor?

Let me know when these dedicated gaming appliances support community-developed game mods.

The RFCs specifying what is needed before an IANA "designated expert" will accept a new Internet Media Type are a lot of documentation for a new programmer to read and understand, and my attempts to search the web for easier-to-digest introductory information from third parties weren't very fruitful. There's also a week's turnaround for this designated expert to make a decision. And if, say, the development of a new video game produces 20 different internal asset data formats used by the game and by its modding tools, would the designated expert appreciate having to review the registration of each of these formats as an Internet Media Type? I think I'm misunderstanding something very fundamental, and I know there's much I don't know.

Or io.github.some_username.some_projectname.some_type, right? I can get behind that in theory. But it'll take a lot of reengineering of container formats such as file systems and archives. Does FAT32, the default file system for removable storage media 32 GB or smaller such as USB flash drives and SDHC cards, support attributes such as content type? Wikipedia says FAT32 does not support extended attributes. Does exFAT, the default file system for larger removable storage media such as SDXC cards? Wikipedia does not say one way or the other. And Zip, a very common archive format, currently doesn't fully support extended attributes either and won't until Info-ZIP Zip 3.1 comes out.

I'm assuming you're talking about 1. PC games with comparable scope to console disc games, and 2. the first year of sales, as opposed to several years later when a console disc game is likely to have gone out of print. Am I right? If so, I'd love to read a few sources.

You could try one of JXD's gaming tablets, such as the JXD S5110b or the JXD S7300.

In your opinion, what should a company porting a console game to PC do to improve the PC version's interface?

I don't see how this is a plus for consoles over PC, given that Xbox 360 wired controllers work out of the box with PCs and there are PC adapters for classic joypads.

PC can serve this as well, as integrated graphics on Intel's Haswell CPUs has surpassed previous-generation (PS3) console graphics.

If you have more gamers than gaming PCs in the household, or you want to play a particular console's exclusive games (or games that are on PS3+360 or PS4+XbOne but not PC such as Red Dead Redemption), then a console might be indicated. For example, what's the PC alternative to a platform fighter like PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale or Super Smash Bros.?

The publisher makes more revenue from each copy sold in a Steam sale than from each used console game disc sold by GameStop.

I beg to differ. Occasionally on Windows 8.1, I've opened a text file and still seen an alert to the effect "You are opening a text file downloaded from the Internet; are you sure?".

From your second link:

src/fsmagic.c - first set of tests the program runs, based on filesystem info

In other words, it still looks at the effing extension. And in any case, not every file type I've worked with is already registered with IANA.

The "first few bytes" of any Zip container are the same, no matter whether the insides are what you'd expect from SMZIP (StepMania package), WSZ (Winamp package), JAR (Java package), ODT (LibreOffice document), DOCX (Microsoft Word document), or whatever else.

In principle, I agree with your "real issue". But in practice, a lot of PCs are in homes of less-than-competent people. If a machine's owner lacks knowledge, then who should have local admin privileges?