[garrypettet]

That's not been my experience on a console since the Sega Megadrive. Whenever I find a couple of hours to play video games (working around kids, wife, etc) I inevitably have to spend an hour downloading countless patches, updates, etc. Modern day gaming consoles have become more difficult to just pick up and play than consoles of yesteryear.

[Hamuko]

There's definitely more obstacles in way of gaming, but I find consoles have way less of them than PC gaming does. A gaming console can really only get an OS update or a title update to slow you down, but on a gaming PC, you also have a bunch of drivers that want to update themselves and a bunch of gaming launchers that want to update themselves.

Also, I find Windows updates much more annoying than I find PlayStation updates.