who just wants to plug in the latest game and play on the couch

Good thing consoles are doing everything in their power to ruin that. Setting up new consoles can take hours of making new accounts, downloading updates, installing the game itself, and then making accounts on that.

Not that PCs are immune to any of that, but most people already own a PC and its likely to be turned on even when they aren't playing to do half of that in the background.