mechmouse: PC games are, on the whole, more expensive than consoles. Due to lack of 2nd hand market and heavy reliance on Digital distribution.
Randalator: I disagree on the last part. Even second hand console games are usually a lot more expensive than PC games. PC games are cheaper as full price and they are cheaper in sales, precisely because of digital distribution. The ubiquity, immediacy and simplicity of digital distribution has resulted in most PC games selling for full retail price for less than a year and regular sales with massive discounts.
Also there is no need for a big second hand market anymore because sale prices are cheaper today than second hand prices used to be before digital distribution. As for sales, you had to wait many years to find a game, let alone a AAA game, in a bargain bin for a price that they today regularly reach after 2-3 years. And they're available for everyone at that price, not just the lucky fuck who managed to find the one single copy at the bottom of the bin.
If anything makes PC games more expensive than console games, it's the combined price for game and platform. If you don't buy many games, the higher price of a decent gaming PC will make the gaming experience overall more expensive.
Last year I took a list of 20 randomly chosen games released on all platforms from the previous year.
IIRC 18 games where cheaper for a new disc on consoles than they were on PC. Second hand of course was even cheaper.
Yes PC Digital has sales, and sale prices trump second hand prices. However, any given game is on sale 10 maybe 20 days a year, the rest of the year their prices are considerable more. Even taking the best sale prices of each game it was only about £20 Cheaper than getting the same games 2nd hand on console.
PC games are cheaper at release, due to console manufacturers cut, normally after 3-6 months console games cost (for new) is cheaper than the same game on PC.
If I gave you a list of 20 random games from 2015 and said buy them for the end of next week, you would save about £200 buying them on consoles over PC.
It is also worth noting, examining data shown by steamspy that about 1/4 of games are bought on sale. The other 3/4 were bought at full price.
Please do this for yourselves. Look up 5 games released last year and compare prices.
Sales are unpredictable, depreciation of physical goods is not.