alt Hacker NewsI turn on my PS5 controller and it turns on my entertainment system and my game is right where I left off. All the games and the OS get silently patched while the machine is in "rest mode" too.
Steam Big Picture means I get to deal with launchers, games without a gamepad UI or designed for TV viewing, Windows Update (or on Linux, incompatibility), shader compilation, etc.
I don't see PCs replacing consoles any time soon, when I'm done working I don't want to deal with any of that stuff. I respect that some people do but that is "brain goes off" time for me.
Exactly. I don't want to mess with anything, I want an appliance that plays games. I don't want it to do anything other than that either. It must work every time, with every supported game, and have no manual maintenance.
Consoles are also just generally more ergonomic for normal adults: they're built so you can inhabit your primary living space, around other people, on a couch, instead of being a bedroom-dweller sitting at a desk.