I feel your pain there lucifix, I live in southeastern Ohio, and the only thing we have here is a radio shack and half a dozen computer homebusinesses. To get anything I'd have to drive two hours to columbus. This is what I do, try going to tigerdirect.com
you can get some good deals there, but once you buy, you're subscribed to their catalog, which oculd be good or bad. Either way, it won't hurt to take a look.
With gaming, there are some games, most notably FPS, that have to be on a PC, they don't work nearly as well on a console. There are others, like those fighting games, that would hardly be playable on a pc without some extra hardware, and even then would be inferior. Of course, other games work equally well on either. I moved almost entirely over to pc once I realized that Nintendo was targeting an audience far younger than I. (I'd been with nintendo since shortly after the launch of the NES.) Now I'm only partially using the ps2, whenever pc gets dull.