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Thats how I felt about the prior generation. I went from a 360 to a series X
i already felt like Microsoft was doing little to make their consoles an interesting option (if you didn't have a PC already), and most of their exclusives became cross platform.
I think their next console will basically just either be a streaming device or just a fancy gaming PC with Windows.
I think you underestimate how many people don't want to deal with the overhead of a PC vs a console. Like for you and me, it's straight forward and simple to use a PC but I have friends who truly struggle with technology and its just easier for them to not have to deal with anything beyond their boxed in OS on their console.
Oh I know that there are a lot of people that don't want to get started on having to deal with picking parts, let alone putting them together themselves.
But a lot of stores also started selling pre-built gaming PCs recently, at least where I live. So it's become significantly easier to obtain a gaming PC these days.
Other than that I feel Xbox hasn't had as many exclusives as PlayStation lately (if we're not counting PC ports). So then a decision between either console seems like quite an easy one for many.
Its more than just the hardware, many don't want to put any time into the software either. I've tried to get one friend to use the gaming PC he already has and he just flat out refuses. He finds it "breaks too often and has too many issues" which idk I've never had that level of issues but I've also been using them my entire life lol.
There's still a lot more effort just to start a game.
Steam Big Picture mode is pretty much fine, but on SteamOS (or Linux generally) that means compromising on multiplayer games, and on Windows you're still at the mercy of Windows update breaking the "boot to controller menu" experience.