> Your response is essentially OPs reasoning

I take it you meant GP (as in, the post I was responding to - which to this post is actually GGP but I digress).

I don't think it is. Their reasoning is:

> there are reasons someone might want a 6" cube instead of a full PS5 and a mac mini. None of them are low price but they are reasons nonetheless.

Mine is that it is indeed price, only not the price of the hardware alone but rather the price of the ecosystem as a whole. Another aspect that I didn't cover is that a game that you buy today for PC will likely still work on whatever PC you have 20, 30 years from now. The same cannot be said for consoles.

I do agree with your second paragraph though! :)