Counterpoint is of course gaming started with arcades and then consoles at a time far before the modern windows experience was a thing. I agree with this completely but this should have happened in mid 2000s at the earliest which also means at that point how would you argue that playing a game on Windows XP with shitty DX9 graphics was realy all that better than a PS2 game?

Things are different now clearly, I think the industry turned to shit around the PS3 era, the whole thing with backwards compatibility was the crossing line.