Not just sound, many other ones have video chips that had a bunch of 2D acceleration features vs PC's plain old ass framebuffer where you needed to burn CPU cyc

Not just sound, many other ones have video chips that had a bunch of 2D acceleration features vs PC's plain old ass framebuffer where you needed to burn CPU cycles to move anything on. Multi-media-wise PCs were behind for a relatively long time compared to other home computers. I don't think it would be overstatement to say only reason PC won was coz of competition's mismanagement