Probably because it's very niche. Talking to many friends, and an increasing number of posts on various console subreddits, there's lots of comments from PC gamers that embraced the console life due to it's simplicity. This has increased since the PS5 Pro released - "Close to PC-level graphics, without the PC-level costs and mucking around with settings"
replyThere is a certain appeal to this for many people that hacking it to run your own OS isn't really sought after.
Kind of funny because most games on the PS5 Pro have performance tuning settings. It's not as comprehensive as you'd find on a PC game, but it's clear the console audience is also wanting to tweak how their game runs. And, for what it's worth, pretty much every new PC game has an auto-configuration that customizes the settings for the hardware on install. So you don't have to ever go into settings, so long as you're happy with the play experience the developer decided you should have.
replyI guess you weren't listening because all of them have healthy homebrew communities and people defeating the DRM.
replyI'm not sure if you're being dishonest or just ignorant of the console hacking scene.
Not going to jump through those hoops to run software
replyYou're the one being dishonest and ignorant comparing defeating DRM to something that is open from the start
replyHow is that dishonest? They were replying to:
reply> Nobody has even hinted that it would be nice to have a 3rd party store or the ability to run whatever OS on them freely.
If people are going through the trouble to defeat DRM, I would say that's more than a hint that people want the ability to run whatever OS on them freely.
Nope.
replyMostly wondering about legislators being Super Concerned about Apple (and Google to a smaller degree) not allowing 3rd party software.
replyBut for consoles it's just crickets.
We shouldn't need to "defeat the DRM", it should be allowed full stop.
Legislators *use* cell phones though; very few of them use video game consoles.
replyMillennials are also legislators, people who have grown up with consoles.
replyNot every politician is a boomer.
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