Why do laptops degrade over time, but consoles remain stable when starting games?

Why do laptops get worse over time or should they get worse but consoles not?

A PS4 from 2013 e.g. Any game would start normally. But nobody would recommend buying a laptop from 2013. Why is it like that with computers?

Isn't it in both cases the CPU, GPU and RAM in there?

Are the CPU, GPU and RAM worse or is it Windows?

Consoles are designed exclusively for gaming and do not allow the user to intervene deeply in the configuration or the system as such. And the game software can't intervene too much in the system either.

A laptop is a work tool and can therefore be largely adapted and configured. Since most users have absolutely no idea and do not know how to maintain the system, they screw it up in no time.

The games are optimized for the consoles.

at pc etc you want to buy something new every year.

there's also planned obsolescence.

you have kindly to consume and the software manufacturers produce as cheaply as possible. But it doesn't work with some console games either.

A lot more is done with a laptop than just gaming, the system stores more and more data and apps. A full truck also starts more slowly than an empty one.

A game console just plays. Maybe you will watch a few more films. Ultimately, however, the operating system remains unaffected.

Because this console always remains exactly this console with certain properties to which all programs (i.e. Usually games) that are available for it are tailored.

But computer operating systems are constantly evolving. And the programs that run on it too.

For example, if you had installed a PC with a stable version of Windows XP and then only installed and used a certain handful of programs that would run stably with this version of Windows (and that do not rely on any Internet services that support it maybe no longer exists), then the Windows XP computer would still suffice today.

But your statement is not entirely correct either, because the game consoles have always been further developed, a new version of the Playstation, XBox, etc.

But there's actually another reason:

Windows "rubbish" over time, if you keep installing new programs, then reinstalling other programs, etc. It is an operating system that was not really intended to be "treated" like that. Integrating "shared files", system libraries from third-party programs into the system, a central "registry" in which more and more programs with more and more information "perpetuate" themselves, so that they grow into a juggernaut… All this is for the long-term stability of a "living one." Systems "in which something is installed or another program" flies down "is not beneficial.

In addition, (this also applies to other operating systems now), new updates are constantly being added. The operating system does not stay the same for years, it grows continuously with every update, becomes larger, more complex, does more in the background and therefore needs more and more computing power just so that the computer itself runs smoothly with this operating system.

My laptops - regardless of whether they are Windows or Linux - don't get "worse". You should just not want to constantly "optimize", nor install anything, and leave it on or uninstall it incompletely, because the application is made in such a way that it can't be completely uninstalled. Lots of freeware do it like this…