Using price as an excuse to avoid PC gaming is a lazy, fallacious, cliche, and ignorantly-formed argument. It's useless arguing whether PC gaming or console gaming is more expensive, because the plain, simple, bottom line is that gaming in general is fucking expensive.
Whether you're spending more or less on games, more or less on HDTVs/monitors, more or less on hardware, more or less on accessories, it's irrelevant. Plain and simple, if you have the money to game on PC, you have the money to game on consoles, and vice versa. There's simply no question about it.
All that said, it comes down to time investment. If you want to take the time to build your own computer and work out the kinks, the PC is a fantastic and IMO far superior gaming platform. If you don't want to bother with anything like that, plop it in a console.
But even the difficulty argument is less defined these days, with multiple resolutions, multiple video options, more complex TV and home theater setups, online configurations, and more that goes into console gaming. At the same time, PC gaming is getting easier and easier, with every game auto-patching, simpler installations, far fewer compatibility issues, more stable operating systems, and better-organized and better-marked motherboards for easier computer building.
