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If I've got a laptop and am looking for "normal" gaming experiences, rather than the latest AAA games, I'll load up an old or light game on it.

Why would I buy a separate piece of hardware taking up more space in my home and life? More money down the drain.

Sure, it's nice that it "just works", but so does `pacman -Sy xonotic`.

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Nobody's talking exclusively about the "latest AAA games".

But they are generally referring to the graphics-intensive games that have been available on consoles for the past ten years. That's what "normal gaming" is. CoD, GTA, Halo. Mainstream multiplayer stuff and similar single-player.

Not one of which runs on an average laptop.

People buy consoles to run console-type games.

In the conversation around PCs vs consoles, I think you know nobody's talking about Pac-Man here.

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