Sure building a PC might have become a game in itself, but it all started with gaming, without that motivation doubt anyone would've gotten involved with PC building as a hobby.
100%. Parents bought the DOS/Windows 3.1 era PCs for productivity purposes but it was their kids who catapulted the DIY PC market through gaming into the de-facto global scale murder of the alternative personal computers of the time including the Macintosh. Gabe started Valve when he discovered that Doom was installed on more PCs worldwide than Windows. The number of people who upgrade their PCs just for speeding up productivity tasks pales in comparison to the upgrades done by gamers. When it became apparent that most modern games needed 32GB minimum RAM for best performance, many gamers with bigger wallets upgraded to 64GB RAM to future proof their PCs. Both Xbox One and PS4 came with huge RAM upgrades not because Microsoft and Sony were feeling charitable but because they wanted to lure the PC gaming crowd into console gaming. "WE" and not crypto and not AI enabled Nvidia to be what they are today but how has Jensen showed his gratitude to us? This is why I've shunned Nvidia since the RTX 4000 series.
I honestly have no clue how much RAM is in any of the consoles. That was never a selling point. It was all about the games (and the fact that the PS3 was the cheapest bluray movie player on the market).
I was the fool who bought Xbox One. Then PS4. Then sold Xbox One and got Xbox One S. Then sold PS4 and bought PS4 Pro. Then bought Xbox One X without selling Xbox One S. I had made up my mind not to get Xbox Series whatever (it hardly has any games that I want and the proprietary SSD expansion was a beyond stupid move). Was determined to get only the PS5 Pro whenever that launched but during COVID, somehow got this uncontrollable urge to play Gran Turismo 7 and plopped over $750 on the standard PS5 that was being scalped. So now I have no plans for buying any future consoles but who knows?