Pretty much.
I love the freedom of a modular set up, but most PC gamers simply want low end PC and thus you don't see much support for those types of builds. PC AAA exclusives are pretty much done. Anything made on PC now that is even AAA simply has plans for console versions like PS5 and Series X later on anyway when those install bases go up.
I've said it before and I'll say it again....the number of people that will own next gen systems will be more then the number of people that own high end PCs BEYOND the spec of Series X and PS5. Cause you can own a PC more powerful, doesn't mean that is 100% of the PC install base, yet 100% of the PS5 install base...clearly owns the exact same fucking specs, thus a developer can freely exploit those features on Series X and PS5, they can count on everyone having those features, they simply can do that on PC and I'd argue PC has gotten more casual over the generations and the few hardcore PC gamers still building rigs, seem to be doing so not to play some demanding game, but just to get 8K of crappy ports lol So you'll see that install base keep shrinking as even myself, I'm looking for a decent set up, not I'm no longer seeking some high end thing. If all the fucking games coming to PC, will just be ports of shit on PS5, I see no reason for me to even waste time chasing the best GPU on the market.
To play what exactly? Ports? Nah. I was looking to upgrade to a 3090 and it looks more and more likely that I'll probably get a 3060 or something and call it a day. I just don't see anything even coming out that would really need me to have some beast system like back in the day where you actually really needed a powerful system to run some PC exclusive stuff.
Consoles have tons of different versions the same as with PC's these days.
No dev cares about PS5 exclusivity unless sony pays heavily for it out of there pocket. It makes absolute no sense to drop 100m pc users and 200m console users or whatever many there are just to focus on 15m PS5 people and the same goes when they drop last gen, why remove xbox series S and X and PC that all could buy your game, makes no sense.
Consoles are not imuum towards this.
AAA single player market died out on PC because nobody cared for it anymore. I moved from The Sims, to world of warcraft and never looked back. Online is massive on PC and there are tons of exclusives this way. Consoles where stuck with offline single player games for the longest time because they where behind the curve which resulted in most traditional devs that would choose single player games to move to consoles entirely.
Honestly everybody when i was in college was playing world of warcraft or counterstrike all of them, nobody gave to shits about the next silent hill.
As the gameplay u got out of a mmo was far superior money a hour then what u would get from a single player game, single player games suddently also became far far far to expensive in PC gamers eyes. Why pay 60 euro's for a 20 hour game that's what 3 euro's a hour. I play wow for 15 bucks and play about 4 hours a day with lots of friends that's 120 hours. Doesn't take a genious to see why single player market died on PC. Single player got outmatched on every front.
Yet what did devs do? they asked more and more money because sales tanked hard on single player games to compromise the losses, and they basically became extinct soon after.
Atleast gaben understood the concept of to expensive, so he created steam and trojan horsed it through counterstrike on everybody's PC which was far more populaire then that fortnite was today. I hated steam being forced upon me because it ate hardware cycles. But eventually u give in because it matures + faster hardware and its easier at the end specially when everybody tagged along with it.
This is why asking 80 euro's on steam for a single player game is beyond laughable and anybody defending this shit simple has no experience in the PC space and its market. We already saw the same shit happen once before.
Back to your console stuff, the only reason spiderman 2 is a PS5 exclusive is because sony pays them to do so. There is absolute no reason for them to limit there sale market even remotely. The same as star citizen is PC exclusive because there backers are all PC gamers that backed it, they would create a shit show with the people that pay them if it goes multiplatform ( diablo immortal "don't you got a mobile" is a good example ), but the moment the backers are no longer important they will move to other platforms simple as that.