If there were no consoles, developers might not be incentivized to make their games scalable.

Consoles, on the other hand, are a fixed hardware platform.

Sometimes to make this work, entire new techniques are invented.

A gaming PC with a crown, representing superiority, and an Xbox Series X and a PS5 in the background.

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CyberPowerPC Grvty High Airflow Series gaming PC case.

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