Lfrith

Another factor is as people's libraries grow new titles are also competing with past large budget games that now go on discount cheaper than indie games. PC has more games that are backwards compatible compared to consoles, so that's decades of cheaper games that a new title has to compete against.

Makes sense as the barrier to entry gets lower and lower to make a game. Even I could make a game and release it. Of course nobody would buy it. One of the consequences of increased accessibility is that there's more competition in the market place for those entering with the intention of trying to make money off of it.

Its like once a hobby goes from a small group enthusiasts to mainstream it gets worse as corporations see an opportunity to monetize what was previously loser city. Like video games and old message boards and irc to what we have now with all sorts of monetization and tracking being shoved in as services gain critical mass among the general population.

Things seem easier to manage by humans at its infancy when its mainly people passionate about what they are using. I went from wishing fediverse to get big enough to replace mainstream social media to being fine with it being a smaller alternative. That initial small phase has kind of been the golden period for lot of things.

Yeah I define PC less by the hardware but whether I can install whatever OS I want and whatever programs I want without restrictions, which consoles don't let you do. And consoles these days are way more powerful than PCs from decades ago yet still crippled when it comes to expected PC functions.

That would be the case for techy people like us, but growing number of people cant handle anything more complicated than a phone OS these days that I think consoles will continue to have a purpose.

Along the way TV shows went from being polished 10 episode series from the usual 20+ episodes to dragging out a 2 hour movie plot over the course of 6-8 episodes.

Way to properly do it is to keep them separate drives and use bios to select which to load.

Yeah, I've spent 0 money on Finals but have all the Battlepasses over the past 8 seasons. And got extra in game currency to buy more cosmetics without spending money.

And for the gameplay itself which is the most important aspect there is no pay to win.

Yep. It gets exhausting how much effort it takes on part of the user to find a way to not have to use a Microsoft account and disable all the things they don't want. LTSC makes it easier but that isn't even a version Microsoft makes easily available, so once again users have to jump through so many hoops trying to retrieve a verified iso and activate it.

Meanwhile Linux is pick a distro among many that appeals to you and get going. It makes Microsoft feel like they hate its userbase and views them as nothing more than data to collect and sell.

Linux isn't a single distro though so just hop to one that doesn't have it for those who don't want it.

Same I when it comes to my next upgrade I want to go AMD GPU next time around for the best Linux support.

Well for me Sony exclusive means Sony produced games, and they've just not released in that department. I'm PC now so its not exclusive for me anyways, but it does matter for console players choosing between Sony or Xbox. And Sony has really under delivered this gen with games from them.