

Every Japanese Prime Minister get a surge in popularity every though they are from the same party of the last PM who resigned due to low poll numbers.
I think she is trying to use her current popularity to gain more seats in the parliament, I am not sure whether that will work out but she probably did the math.











One reason is Achievements. You need software to track it, and it is better to let the platform do it and consolidate all the common code and related UI, but that means there would be a platform process (e.g. Steam launcher / GOG Galaxy) running in the background to process them.