Well, here's my "Old Man Screams at Cloud" perspective.....
I don't like most console games beyond the Playstation. I find the controllers too complex, the gameplay needs more time than I have to give to it, and honestly, you can't really veer the experience or create a fork in the experience into what you want like you can with a computer, especially the PC. The Playstation is probably the newest console I got into for more than 1 or 2 games. The most recent console would be the Wii U for Mario Creator, but I can already do that in other means.
For the PC, I like old games like what we talk about here because I can invest into them, but I don't need to invest $15/mo, 40+ hours of my week, and I can take months away and pick up where I left off. Even fancy long stuff like Ultima I can do that with. But I find things like Halo or World of Warcraft are just too much for me. I get addicted to games where I build stuff and destroy stuff bad enough (Sim City, The Sims, Postal) - the last thing I need is one more thing to eat up my time.
The beauty of console games, at least the old ones, is their simplicity. I can plop down in front of the Atari for 15 minutes and play a round of Space Invaders, I can boot up my old 486 and play Sim City for 12 minutes and at least build a city block or enhance my water system, save, and then move on with life. It's nice that way. And I don't have to pay Nolan Bushnell or Will Wright $15 to store my creation on their "Cloud" either. Sure it's nice not to have to worry about when the hard disk bites the dust - but I'd rather have that than be paying for web space like WoW does. Just the idea of that element alone was enough to put me off WoW, seems it'd make it feel like a job. I already put in 40 hours fixing PC's, I don't need to be dreading the helpless desk AND a guild when I come home and try to relax for 15 minutes.
The beauty of PC games is there is so much out there beyond the Best Buy game shelf. I got HEAVY on a Five Nights at Freddy's kick for a few years there - and I did that because it's a simple game - you just sit, watch, listen, and click buttons for 10 minute spurts for a one time cost of like $5. Same thing with Retro City Rampage DX which comes with a DOS version that runs gloriously on my 486 DX4. There are new DOS games, and new modern games, and I like both, if I can control how long I play at least and I'm not spending $50 a pop on them.
I have one "modern" console - a Wii - what do I use it for? To Emulate older consoles mostly, I only own three proper Wii games. I had an XBOX - what did I do? Softmod it and put emulators on it. I never owned any other disc than Halo 2, and I only ever played Halo 2 once, and while it was fun, the fact I Could not just stop in the middle of something and save like I could Postal, or Ultima, or have an actual demarcated stopping point like Freddy's or Mario All-Stars, it just felt like Id' have to chore going through a game I'm not that good at anyway. Most modern RPG and FPS I'm TERRIBLE at. Even then, the Wii is not THAT modern, it's over 10 years old. And the only reason I'd maybe consider a Wii U used would be to play Mario Creator - but I can already do all that on my 486 using software tools I've been using in DOS and Windows 9x for over 15 years now - and dump the whole thing into a cart if I wanted and run it on my NES as it is. I've been a NES ROM Hacker since 2001 - a hack of a hacker - but a ROM hacker nonetheless.