This is not new, the ps2 was weak, the og Xbox was weak the ps360 were all weak compared to top of the line PCs of their day... They all had the benefits of being dedicated gaming machines! No hassle, something the masses understand.
Really, I say this as a long time PC and console gamer... I would say that back in the 90s new consoles had some specific hardware features you did not see on PC until later, basic things like hardware scrolling, scaling, transparencies, basic 3d acceleration for the first PlayStation, texture filtering for the N64, etc. By the time the Dreamcast was released you had PCs with more video memory than the consoles had in total, higher resolution monitors with video cards capable of pushing refresh rates above 60hz...
Oh I forgot, the ps2 was the first consumer device with something like shaders! That was an important feature at the time!(but a good. PC still offered many benefits).
That brings us to today, I think ms especially was complacent and released a machine that they knew full well it would not deliver consistent performance at 1080p with detailed graphics... The ps4 is where a console should be, affordable from the start, decent performance, and it has good policies regarding content...
