With the specs you have already, What's your rig look like to look at? new case or something, or psu, braided cables, matching fans? stuff like that. the little things that put a smile on ya face when ya look at it, could have a brand new looking system for the price of a 970..
Console... mehh well, are you ever going to use it? I mean iv not bought a console since ps2, my missis give me her ps3 because she never used it, I played gta 5 on it for 2 days when I was bored and I give her the ps3 back because she wanted it for her Blu-ray dvds downstairs whilst im in my man cave upstairs on the pc, iv needed it back, only good thing about a console was it can play blu-rays etc, but now iv got a Blu-ray drive in my pc and a hdmi to the tv rather than just buying a bluray player for the tv its self.
Third 970, well is anything struggling that your playing I mean really? nothing struggles with my setup and im at 1080, well, its not quite your res its 1920x1080 but still

your gpu power is double of mine, you will get a better score in benchmarks.. is that worth your missis spending her money on that? unless she gets you a 4k monitor to go with it, then you can say ere come look at this game on the 4k screen how much better it looks! and she will just be like really?? I payed all that money for no difference at all (to a untrained eye, I mean my missis played on a laptop at 20fps at 1024x768 and she cant tell the difference between that and a computer I built for her that runs games at a nice solid 60fps @ 1680x1050... no idea how anyone cant tell the difference but there ya go)
fourth question so to speak, why get a computer related product for xmas? yeah we love that sort of stuff, but your specs are decent enough as it is, go to Egypt for a week or two in jan its 30c+ and its bloody nice!