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Right as Microsoft announces Halo might come to Playstation.
Forward the death of platforms.
There's no special sauce left in hardware. This last generation of consoles consisted of two laptops and an Android tablet. The home boxes are whatever AMD could achieve within a $500 MSRP circa January 2020. Nothing to scoff at - but nothing mindblowing.
There is no need for separate consoles. It does not serve the consumer interest to have two incompatible releases of every single game. This isn't a console war. It's a format war.
Sony has been left desperately perpetuating the market structure that supported the PS2... when hardware shaped games. That's been flipped backwards since the PS3 and 360. Multiplatform is god. Sony's coasted on momentum and popular fiction for almost twenty years. They've had some Nintendo-ish incomparables, like VR support, but they didn't embrace that. Instead they chose to continue gambling on bribing developers for exclusives, and eventually outright buying studios.
I don't know how long that charade can continue. But if Sony sees it has to end, then it's up to them when it happens, but it is only a matter of time.
Yeah, a console should just be a prebuilt PC with a controller friendly interface. So something like current handheld PCs, like Ayaneo or Steam Deck, but perhaps with a stronger focus on UX, game tuning, etc. If I want to reuse my PS6 as a PC, that should be totally feasible.
Looks like Steam Machines might make a comeback
It was doable with the PS3 and then they took it away
Seems weirdly doable with the Xbox Whatever They Called This One. Unless I'm misremembering the maniacs whose officially-enabled homebrew was Bochs emulating Windows 98.