The same reason modern smartphones do. PCs (whether windows, Mac, or linux) are horrid from a usability perspective. It boggles my mind how regular people manag

The same reason modern smartphones do. PCs (whether windows, Mac, or linux) are horrid from a usability perspective. It boggles my mind how regular people manage to put up with the shit that it takes to use a computer effectively. But I know that the answer is that they don't, and the result is that they are exposed to a vastly degraded experience of using a computer compared to an expert who can easily troubleshoot and solve the vast majority of problems that they run into day to day. Gaming consoles (and DVRs, and every other device which is basically just a computer) are simplified systems which remove a lot of the hassle of using them. Even a PS3 or a Wii-U (which are excruciating to update) is orders of magnitude easier to use than a general purpose computer.