really?!? well that's a first, every one of these i've ever seen starts with the assumption you have a massive box of spare computer parts lying around the house.

OS will set you back another $100 though so that brings this to $650.

 I think you missed the part where I said that I paid 1250€ 2 years ago, now you can build a PC like mine for about 800/900€, it's still more expensive than a PS4 but I can do a whole lot more with it than you can do with a PS4!

& 1 last thing , I can assure that my PC performs a little bit more than 50% better than a PS4, on benchmarks my GPU has more than double the performance than PS4 GPU & my K i7 smokes ps4 CPU. I have more/faster RAM too so from I've seen, I'd say that I'm between 100/150% better performance over the PS4. On top of that you have to add the on-line cost of PS+, 60€/year, so for the 4 years I keep my PC where playing on-line is free, you pay 240€ to play on-line, so now your PS4 is costing you 640€ to do less stuff than my PC. Also don't forget that I get the better versions on PC with mods & community add-ons & I get to play FPS with mouse+keyboard...

My PC becomes pointless in 2 years why? I spent $600 and everything I play looks fine to me. My last PC didn't cost much more and I spent 4 years gaming in 1200P.

One can assume plenty of things or not, but pretty much anyone buying a PS4 is going to play on-line & buy a PS+ account, I know that there are some that won't, but they are a small minority!

True. This PC isn't that good anyway, it'll be outdated in a year. Spend $150-200 for future proofing.

could of been even cheaper if they went to AMD.

How I did it. Bought a preowned used i5 750 with boxed cooler + 8gb DDR3 1600mhz + mainboard +500gb HDD + 680w PSU + case + DVD drive + GTX 275 + internal wireless card for 100€

Bought a Scythe Mugen 3 cooler+fan also preowned (but mint condition) for 22€ to replace the stock cooler of the Intel.

Bought a 128gb sandisk SSD new for 42€

Bought a EOL (end of life) Sapphire 7870XT (Tahiti LE which is basically a 7930) for 114€    (a 7850 would have been 70€)

oced GPU and CPU

= 278€ / $373


Also bought additional 8GB of new DDR3 1600mhz Ram for 42€ / $56 (had to look for a good deal) but its still sealed because no game needs it yet.

= 320€ / $429

Well also bought a rapoo(thats the brand)  wireless keyboard and mouse bundle for 12€ / $16 (still more precise in everything than any controller)

= 332€ / $445

So I got a complete PC for a total of $445 (VAT is already included)  compare that to a 400€ PS4 that costs $537 in Europe.

Yeah, this will probably be the first time I don't touch RAM.  I have 16GB DDR3 currently (up from 2GB the previous build).  I knew it was overkill at the time, but RAM was cheap as hell. It'll do me for a few years.

If you got decent clock speeds, you'll be set for a long, long time.

you can buy the ps4 gpu eqivalent for 200, and if you looked into apus (like a ps4) you would find its equivalent there aswell.

Why wouldnt a pc thats about 500 witht the equivalent gpu of a ps4 last as long as a ps4? Most pc games use the same api as consoles and are being optomised continuously aswell. 

have you ever looked into pcs? a crappy surface pro for 700 can run titanfall. you think a dedicated machine wont?

its like you got all this preconception from a forum and never once tried doing anything you talk about once (or even research it, go watch linus tech tips they have a video up showing a 5-6 year old gpu getting equivelent performance as an xbox one). So take it from someone who builds pcs for a living: you're so wrong.