For me the difference is:
-with dual screens, W11 can only open calendar on the main screen, in W10 both screens worked
-file explorer is slower than windows 95 on a crappy old HDD, thanks to all those onedrive integrations making it heavy as...
How does Steam do it?
Subscription doesn't include game servers by the way, so you don't pay for them, and game publishers always take them down after a certain amount of years.
PS3 was 14 years for me. Bought in 2010 with BFBC2 as my main game, and now EA shut the servers down.
If PS3 had had these current subscriptions, it would have cost me additional 1000€.
Generally console costs around 600€ and the lifecycle costs from subscriptions is 1000€ which is just insane. If the console itself was free, then the subscription would make sense.
My use for a console would be basically playing CoD or...
There's an easy fix...
...Stop charging a subscription to play online.
Immediately MS will have a marketable reason for people to flock from Sony's Playstation network to Microsoft's Xbox network. Furthermore, it shouldn't be as painful for MS...