Filtering by year helps, but that still doesn't account for many things. The obvious is volume. Someone could say that the PS2 for example had more issues than the Sega Saturn, but then again there were an order of magnitude more PS2's in service so one would expect more complaints, but that doesn't necessarily mean it had more issues. Same with pc's, factor in desktops, laptops, tablets and so on and the amount of devices that fall under the "pc controller disconnects" search is staggering. Anytime you deal with volume, consoles are always going to be at the bottom. Additionally those searches on pc will always include people trying to get non supported controllers to work, tinkerers trying to mess around, etc. You know in those searches there will be someone trying to get a Gravis gamepad working or whatever and is asking for help to deal with bugs and connection issues, or someone having controller problems playing console emulators on pc, or people having issues with their pirated software, etc. Those searches also probably have a bunch of hits from developers dealing with bugs and what have you. Point being, the net for that type of search on pc is just so wide that it doesn't give us any indication of how real of a problem it is compared to a similar search on console which would be much more accurate.
Not really. The pc controller stack code is old and well tested, even more so in the past decade because pc controller basically means xbox 360 controller which has been tested to death. Consoles always throw everything away and start fresh, hence you are always dealing with new new hardware, new dev team, new code and hence new issues. Plus the permutations on pc are no where near what they used to be. There's two cpu makers, two gpu makers and a small handful of chipsets. Most everything is on the motherboard now and tested to work together, the variables are no where near what they used to be and as such neither are the issues.
That was more generally speaking, that's what these threads usually degenerate down to, and it typically seems like console owners always have the crappiest most problem ridden pc's ever invented. It's just like when you deal with dual console owners, usually by sheer coincidence I'm sure the Playstation fan will have more problems with their Xbox, the Xbox fan will have more problems with their Playstation, and they both have nothing but constant problems with pc gaming.
You can justify most every single problem that way then, even on pc. Unless you fall into the above category as that person who always has driver issues, which on console forums is about as likely as a console war.
