Oh I didn't mean actually "based on movies" but rather the game design approach where the goal is to emulate the style of a movie. E.g. Naughty Dog games, where the emphasis is on cinematic cutscenes, they rely more on cinematics than writing quality (the recent Tomb Raider games are the most guilty of this, they think sticking a female protagonist in the game is sufficient character development), and all of the gameplay is just repetitive filler content.
The genres that are stronger (more prevalent) on consoles include JRPGs and fighting games (and maybe "action adventure"). Genres much more prevalent or even exclusive to PC include:
- wRPGs from before 2007 or so
- MMORPG
- MMOFPS
- MOBA
- Point-and-click adventure
- Turn-Based Strategy (hardly one genre due to the variety)
- Real-Time Strategy (ditto, hard to put it all in one genre)
- Racing simulators
- Flight simulators
- Pseudo-military simulators (ArmA franchise, Operation Flashpoint, that WW2 game the same studio published).
- All kinds of odd simulators like Surgeon Simulator, Truck Simulators, and games like Papers Please. There are genres that even I haven't heard of. You should browse Steam's indie section to see all the weirdness in there.
The bigger selection of games on PC is a statistic. Whether or not one cares is another matter.
As for dumbed down console games, I was referring to AAA titles as I pointed out but I forgot to specify games from after 2007. Most of the mainstream AAA games since then are dumbed down as such, even PC is guilty of that now since mainstream AAA titles are generally on both consoles and PC.
I've been playing console games from late 90s until 2007 (I've owned Sega Dreamcast, SNES/N64/Gamecube/Wii, PS1/PS2/PS3, XBOX/XBOX 360) and have played a few after that to completion (and have tried and discarded more). I've also played PC games from the same time period as I made it a point to go back and play most of the RPG and FPS classics. My favorite games come from the late 90s, the entire 2000s and a few from the 2010s too.
Cool thread by the way!