There are browsers in MS and Sony next gen consoles, yes, but I wouldn’t call anything in their walled gardens “full-on”.

Those who have a Plex server at home, turn on it's photos backup in the app on your phone.

The real issue with AM4 isn’t so much the CPU retention, it’s the cooler mount. Even most of AMD’s own most common AM4 Wraith coolers (Spire and Stealth) dont use the cooler mounting clips that come preinstalled on AM4 motherboards, leading to all sorts of janky different solutions for each different cooler and…

Thumb drives would be even WORSE than the old copy protection dongles of yore.

“there are already chips from this series out there for close to a year.”

I wouldn't call a proprietary storage device only available from one vendor "more user friendly". Microsoft will have ZERO control over what that single source charges for their product, while the "market" of PS5 and PC using industry standard PCIe 4.0 will drive down cost.

Strikes (even with randoms) will level you very quickly. Make sure you have a full stash of Vanguard and Gunsmith bounties on hand before your start though. Play Crucible if you enjoy it's PvP, but same suggestion grab a full stack of bounties and focus on them, not necessarily winning the matches or being on top.

Everyone bitching at Sony about this now, when last generation it was Microsoft blocking cross-platform. Sucks for us gamers, but it’s business. What financial motivation does Sony now or Microsoft then have to allow it?