Never thought this time would come but purchasing a PS4 this week. Ran the whole gamut from AMD cards to a Titan and 780 Ti and now I've given up. Nvidia murdered Kepler and I'd bet money the same will happen to Maxwell. Too much multiplayer rubbish, games that are too fat and take an age to download and install (the internet here is trash, still games are too obese), endless DLC, shiny new GPUs for what - extra shininess?
Really you just play what you feel comfortable with. Personally, I hate controllers despite trying several times to like them. And I don't see how consoles will improve on needing new hardware each generation given their non-backwards / forwards compatible nature. The need for a new GFX card is simply replaced by the need for a new console. You'll upgrade hardware only half as often but the games are on average more expensive. The beauty of PC's is I can still play everything back to and including late 80's / early 90's DOS games. Plus the thousands of titles not on consoles.
Agree with the cr*ppier side of multi-player, but don't consoles suffer from the same "MP morons"? Doesn't everyone have to disable voice chat on every platform? Don't consoles now need games to be installed just like a PC and need to download the same bloated multi-GB patches? Don't many console owners end up opening up the case to upgrade their HDD's to SSD's to avoid 1 min level load times? Truth is, since consoles moved to x86 they pretty much are just low-end All-In-One PC's with a 7790/7850/750Ti class GFX card running prettier versions of Win 10 (XB1) or FreeBSD (PS4).
As for PC performance issues, what settings are you running at? If you're stuffing everything on Ultra simply because that's what tech sites obsessively benchmark at, obvious solution is turn it down. "
I must run everything on Ultra" seems to be a psychological barrier some cannot go beyond, and yet when you do, you realise there was no real 'barrier' there to step over. Half the time I can't tell the difference between Ultra vs High on many games especially when actually playing the game and not holding a magnifying glass over side by side 4x zoomed screenshots. And Medium is no great loss either given I disable half the dumb "effects for the sake of it" (chromatic aberration, vignetting, etc) regardless of performance. If you find effects like CA irritating - be warned - there are many more games where you can't disable them at all on consoles.
Reading between the lines regarding complaints of DLC, game bloat, hardware upgrade rat race, etc, what it sounds like you really need to do is broaden the horizons a bit as far as playing non-AAA games and non FPS/action-adventure genres. If you play only one style / genre of games, you can easily get "burned out" after a while. You then start to seek out new hardware to "cure" that when you're just going to run into exactly the same disappointments on another platform (same tacky DLC, MP morons, large patches, etc), whilst the real cure may just be playing a larger variation of games. AAA games used to be the centre of my universe too. They no longer are and overall enjoyment has gone up not down.