[jajko]

> basically a computer with some custom version of windows with a console-tailored UI

I presume you mean PC, but still this is situation for past 2 decades. PS used to run on Unix, I guess they still do, on very much a PC hardware, just not the exactly same chips you can buy on PC.

Xbox even more so, its ridiculously expensive to come up with your own cpu & gpu, all use amd/intel and amd/nvidia and definitely not the top of the ranges. OS should be skinned Windows with maybe some non-core parts cut off (but I presume telemetry remains).

The only one building non-PC consoles is Nintendo, which uses which uses very much cell phone hardware (but more custom IIRC).

[vineyardlabs]

I'm not talking about hardware. I mean perhaps the next Xbox will literally be a windows PC with a console-focused interface and the Xbox binaries and PC binaries of games will literally be the same. In the same way that a Steam Deck is actually just a PC.