But how often do you not turn your PC on for a month? That's much more common with consoles.
Steam is running all the time when my computer is on (and I use my computer every day), and games just keep themselves up to date. For a given game that I'm trying to play, there's maybe a 15 minute period every couple of months when I wouldn't be able to launch it immediately.
The Windows updates aren't required in order to play games, and they can just be delayed until the next time you're restarting. Not a huge deal there.
Very often. I don't have a regular gaming habit, that applies to both my gaming enviroment (strictly speaking, the Windows side of my mac) and my console.
For the console, btw.: all of them support nightly updates, so I rarely have the problem there.
Sure, but that's been true of PCs for ages. We're all used to the idea that PCs need to be updated. To me one of the advantages to consoles was that they could pick up and play at any moment.
At least with my PS4, I've never been forced to download/install an update, either game or OS. You simply can't use online features if you aren't up to date.
One of the reasons I switched from windows to debian was not having to deal with windows-style updates: you can have the computer running and don't need to reboot after updating.
I wonder if someone already thought of applying the same principle to consoles.
unless something has changed, steam updates are usually optional.
Also pc's are often left on/used for other things so the windows, steam and game updates all kinda just download and install in the background so when you go to play its usually just ready, unlike consoles where you turn it on and it then has to download/install everything as you wait to play.
