The whole point of gaming consoles was to eek every bit of performance out of hardware by booting directly into the game rather than supporting a crufty general purpose operating system. The minute you do things like implementing a web browser interface to simplify development time at the expense of increased complexity, your product becomes functionally indistinguishable from a PC which your customers will switch to eventually to.
It’s also invalid since PCs now can also do exactly that with Valve releasing Gamescope and Big picture, which people colloquially call SteamOS. Even though you can do the same thing on any Linux Distro.
It literally does exactly that. It loads a console-like UI in Steam to select Games and doesn’t load heavy stuff like a browser or desktop. Unless you want to boot that stuff up.
Are you seriously comparing a full-blown linux distro with a gaming app preinstalled; to cartridge-era no OS consoles and CD-era BIOS-only consoles AND calling them exactly the same thing because they both have
console-like UI in Steam to select Games
?
Oh, and the latter (doesn’t load heavy stuff like a browser or desktop) is simply not true, because desktop is not heavy at all and steam ships with built-in web browser
The whole point of gaming consoles was to eek every bit of performance out of hardware by booting directly into the game rather than supporting a crufty general purpose operating system. The minute you do things like implementing a web browser interface to simplify development time at the expense of increased complexity, your product becomes functionally indistinguishable from a PC which your customers will switch to eventually to.
It’s also invalid since PCs now can also do exactly that with Valve releasing Gamescope and Big picture, which people colloquially call SteamOS. Even though you can do the same thing on any Linux Distro. It literally does exactly that. It loads a console-like UI in Steam to select Games and doesn’t load heavy stuff like a browser or desktop. Unless you want to boot that stuff up.
Are you seriously comparing a full-blown linux distro with a gaming app preinstalled; to cartridge-era no OS consoles and CD-era BIOS-only consoles AND calling them exactly the same thing because they both have
?
Oh, and the latter (doesn’t load heavy stuff like a browser or desktop) is simply not true, because desktop is not heavy at all and steam ships with built-in web browser