Since near the dawn of video gaming, the endless debate between PC and console has been one of the cornerstones of the gaming community both online and irl, shaping the way gamers experience and interact with games and each other.
Much like the similarly vitriolic Console Wars, this ongoing rivalry has sparked heated discussions, fuelled by passionate advocates on both sides of the divide, each championing the merits of their preferred platform resulting in no clear victor with every passing generation of gaming.
In the early days of gaming, home gaming consoles were king, as while home computers were developing fast, computer gaming was barely a novelty. In the 80s, the Commodore 64 put up a good fight as one of the first dedicated gaming computers.
However, following the great Video Game Crash of ‘83 and highly competitive console wars following it, computers would not get a foothold in the mainstream gaming market until the mid to late 90s, when the PC market started to homogenize making it easier to develop games for it.
First rifts
Even still, early PC gamers needed to work to achieve the heights of consoles, creating the first rifts in the community that 
continue to this day. Between the ‘basic’ console gamers, and the ‘elitist’ PC gamers.
Boiling down the most prominent arguments, it is clear that both sides bring up strong points.
The Console side’s strongest argument is the inherent ease of use, with most console platforms being simple plug in and play. The uniformity of consoles meant users never needed to worry about device specs, and games are generally better optimized for console releases since developers don’t need to worry about differences in hardware or firmware.
If you bought a console, you are generally guaranteed to be able to play the games for it with little to no issues. While PC gamers might argue that consoles have a higher buying price than your average computer, dedicated gaming PCs are far more expensive, especially these days. Consoles also cornered the market on portable gaming platforms very early on, with mobile gaming only starting to catch up recently.
Easier to modify
In contrast, the PC faction celebrates their superior customizability and flexibility, allowing for upgrading, and supporting most controllers. PC games are also far simpler to modify, meaning the modding community is far stronger for them. Not to mention that emulation lets gamers play almost any console game on PC, which alone invalidates the need for consoles, granted you are willing(technically, ‘ethically’, and legally) to emulate games. PC also has the edge in terms of backwards compatibility, as while console gamers need to keep buying new or old consoles to play the associated exclusive games, a beefy enough computer can run pretty much every game with some tweaking.
Also, while PCs used to be an optional luxury used by the most tech savvy, they are now a necessity for modern life, unlike game consoles.
Of course, in the end, there is no real absolute right answer to which is the best platform. Both PC and console gaming have very attractive, mutually exclusive benefits to choosing either. And some genres of games just naturally suit one over the other, like RTS games with PC or Fighting games with console.
In an ideal world, the average gamer wouldn’t need to choose, and could simply have both. But gaming as a hobby has only gotten to be more and more expensive with time, and most people need to make the choice between a gaming computer or a new gen console.
Unfortunately, it is this difficult but necessary choice that creates divides in the gaming community. With the advancement of technology only offering more and more valid platforms as options for gamers, the debate has gotten relatively diluted, though the animosity continues to persist in certain niche corners of the internet.
