Facts:
~A single card 970 or 980 is running next gen games at almost max settings in 4k at mostly playable frame rates... Most games on PS4 and Xbox one are struggling to get some games to play at 1080p at 30 fps where most cards that are a few years old can run the same games at 1080 above 60 fps. although you do get a good deal on consoles if you are considering price, and some PC's do get around similar specs currently for the same price, and the only way you are going to get the same specs for less than console is if you build it your self... so console is not a bad deal, but if you're not talking about price than PC's are obviously pretty far ahead.
~ The GTX 980 and 970 are the newest additions to the Nvidia line up running on the more power efficient and are DirectX 12 ready Maxwell architecture. The Direct X 12 will have a backward compatibility with older GPUs architectures (Example Kepler on the 7 & 6 Series) but they will not have a full Direct X Support ; Some implementations will not be supported.
~The 980 Outperforms the 780Ti which faster than the 780 ; and the 970 comes in par with 780ti and even faster in certain games. 980 > 970 >= 780Ti > 780 ... Watch "Crysis 3 - GTX 970 vs GTX 980/ GTX 780 Ti Gamepla…" on YouTube - Crysis 3 - GTX 970 vs GTX 980/ GTX 780 Ti Gamepla…:
http://youtu.be/JalO4oHjhQA
Opinion:
970s and 980s Are for 2K for modern and yet to be released games ; even they manage playable FPS on the 4K Gaming Meanwhile the 1080p is the prevailing resolution now on many desktop monitors . PC gaming is far ahead from consoles .. Remember both the Xbox one & Playstation 4 are based on x86 architecture.