I don't consider it a PC. It's an m68k based Machine. Unless you consider something like an Apple IIe a PC or whatever. It shares much more in common with a console than it does a traditional x86 "IBM compatible" PC. No harddrive, boot from disk medium, etc. Just pop in your game, turn on your machine, and you're playing with a joystick. no gui, no text input, no prompt. It just loads and plays.
But to answer your question:
Totally a console. And stuff like Wing Commander was much much better on the CD32 than it was on an IBM PC at the time.
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