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Remember when there was a game on steam that shipped with no exe?
You make a fair point though also pc ports are much more complex with more things to consider and tend to get outsourced if anyone wants to do them to any quality at all. Handled inhouse it almost always gets neglected its not like bad pc versions are a new thing arguably the 360/ps3 era was so so much worse.
I still wonder how deadly premonition got approved on switch though cos that game is not stable at all.
I see people say games crash on Switch way more than I'm used to hearing. I don't think I crashed a game on console ever during my childhood other than an old NES where it was mostly just dirty/bad pins probably. Now games are allowed to break completely seemingly.
Old games did break too it just resulted in the entire system freezing because the OS had no crash handling so the game would instead enter a state of undefined behaviour or freeze. The one i remember doing this the most was halo 2 which very often failed to load and needed a console restart.
Because of the way crashes were handled it probably felt like a dirty disk or cartridge but it could well have been a crash. But it definitely wasnt as common for sure
I played Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and at least for me, when it crashed it actually crashed the entire console somehow. I know that's an outlier and got pulled, but this was still the fully patched version.