Wirdschowerdn
Ph.D. in World Saving
Consoles have no advantages over PC [...]
Consoles have a huge advantage for developers though, as it allows them to develop within scope and optimize their engines for a static set of hardware specs. I don't want to go back to the days where you are forced to buy a new graphics card every year and get a mish-mash of shitty broken unoptimized games aiming for an impossibly wide range of hardware specs.
I know we get a lot of broken shit today too, mostly due to the long transition it takes from legacy engines to modern game engines, but it's much less severe than it was in the late 90s and early 2000s.
So consoles serve as a stabilizer for the industry, although as a consumer I have no interest in them.