>>119162393>They were always just single purpose-built computers.Sure, but prior to gen 7 they usually had custom-made hardware tailored to gaming.
This is ESPECIALLY true for pre-gen 6 consoles and arcades.
Just look at all the shit Motorola, Sony, Hitachi, NEC, and even Yamaha were making for these machines on the CPU side. That's something you'd NEVER see nowadays, it's pretty much exclusively AMD or Nvidia and with the exception of the Switch it's all x86.
>>119162433You'd be surprised how many people just use their consoles as a media box.
I personally have an Xbone (that I got for free from an uncle) and I literally only use it for Hulu when my friends or cousins come over, and that hasn't been a thing in months now so it's basically just sitting there gathering dust.
