Yeah, consoles are even worse. You are not only paying 400-500 dollareuropounds for the console itself, you pay for the multiplayer, and another huge markup for the games and/or the game pass.

And you can only game on it, you can't do anything else with it. In 2 years you easily spend up to 1000 dollars on it, which in comparison could get you the most expensive GPUs other than the 4090.

The allure of a PC is (was?) to buy one machine that can do it all. I guess doing it all now includes having ads shoved into your face from every software vendor around. I don't know what the landscape for ads on consoles are, but I can't imagine it's much better.