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You can buy controllers for PCs, though I'm not sure if its worth the trouble or if they work for every game.
They don't.
PC games are designed to be played with a mouse and a keyboard. With a keyboard, every single button can perform a different action. If you include those buttons plus the Alt key, that multiplies the numbers of buttons on a keyboard. That means the number of actions that can be done on a game designed to be played on the PC are extremely high.
Console games are designed to be played with a controller. In the days of the NES, the controller had a D-pad and Start, Select, A, and B buttons. The controller for the Sega system added a C button.
Nowadays, consoles can expect to have a larger number of buttons on their controller. There's a D-pad, two Sticks, Start, Select, A, B, X, Y, R1, R2, L1, L2. Or, in the case of the Wii and DS, fewer buttons but there's movement sensors for extra gameplay. While that is a vastly greater number of buttons than before, it's still not as much as a keyboard.
Game designers take this into account when designing games for the PC and the console. Games designed for console games can be easily played on the PC. However, PC games are more difficult to adapt to consoles.
However, one reason why people prefer console games is because of the simplicity of it. I don't like games where I have to go all over the keyboard to do so. I prefer to have simpler commands, which is why I like console games.
However, if consoles became defunct, it's iffy if designers would continue to design games that were more simple to play.
So I continue to play console games over PC games because I prefer simpler games. I'm not saying PC games are bad - I'm just saying they aren't for me.