Console makers have a large advantage in terms of economy of scale when buying components, so they will always have an advantage when it comes to performance per $ early in the generation where they are willing to barely break even or even sell the hardware at a loss.
But in saying that comparing what you would have to pay today against the price of a console that is months away from release, especially considering they are using AMD GPU which will be almost 2 years old by the time the consoles launch.
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