Comment by maximilianburke

> Consoles have known hardware and thus games can ship with precompiled shaders. I know this has been done since at least PS2 era since I enjoy taking apart game assets.

That's what I said. Consoles ship GPU machine code, PCs ship textual shaders (in the case of OpenGL) or some intermediate representation (DXIL, DXBC, SPIRV, ...)