What if developers had access to 100% of the power in the consoles?

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kitler53 said:
no friends list

You can have that without the OS running constantly. An individual game can access your friends list and then allow you to play with them.

no messaging

There will still be an OS, just won't be running while playing a game. You can message people out of game. Not a lot of people use the messaging app to any real extent anyway.

no game invites

See point 1

no chat rooms

OK, this one I see. Still, there are other ways to contact people.

no custom soundtracks

? Alright... I'll take 60fps games with improved AI, graphics, worlds, etc. over custom soundtracks.

no background downloads and updates

Once again, you can do that while in standby mode.

no trophies

And why not? You don't need an entire OS running to hadle trophies. 

no sharing of screenshots and videos

I have a PC for that. Also, I would rather have better games than screenshots and videos. Just me though. A video capture card software for those who really need to capture those moments can be bought too.

no netflix

Once again, there are literally hundreds of devices that can do Netflix. I don't want my games gimped because I absolutely have to have my video game console do Netflix.

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no thank you

Points in bold.