You are leaning the right way. PC is always evolving and will be better then any upcoming console because you can use the most up to date hardware. The specs for the PS4 are not the best they can be, if they were then you could expect a really high price.
Currently anyone can build a more powerful PC then the PS4 or 720 even though they haven't been released yet, as long as they are willing to spend lot's of money. The really neat thing about consoles is the different features they use such as Kinect for Xbox and PS-Eye for Playstation, I think that this is what makes the consoles so different then the PC and can be better if your looking for this kind of stuff.
Pc will always be one step ahead of consoles. The ps4/xbox 720 will be like a current decent gaming pc... but by the time they are released, pc will be improved yet again. Playstation has always had the edge over xbox... ps2 was better than xbox, ps3 was better than 360.
Ps4 will no doubt be better than the xbox 720... and sonys exclusive games are probably the best of the lot.
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