Nvidia boss: “No longer possible” for consoles to have better graphics than PC

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Pemalite said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

@NVidia: sure if we consider mid-high and high-end PCs, but Steam stats show that they should be more powerful than the average gaming PC, and they could keep this lead for a while, as if it's true that PC gaming is growing again at a good rate, it's also true that a large share of new PC buyers buy cheap mid-range models, and in the large existing user base only a minority of die-hard technophiles upgrades often, but the vast majority keeps the same PC, possibly only upgrading a few components, mostly HDDs, for years.

To be fair, the vast majority of PC's on Steam are more powerfull than the current consoles and will handle the majority of games at 720P@30fps.
Even those with Intel Graphics.
See what the statistics looks like in a few months after the consoles launch, it should be interesting.

People really haven't had a reason to upgrade their PC's in years, when next generation launches, they will finally have a reason.

Yes, IIRC Steam stated that the average PC power available to Steam gamers is lower than XBOne and PS4, not XB360 and PS3, and this obviously judging from what MS and Sony already revealed.
And about average performance and upgrade, I can confirm also what you said about the average situation with my personal case. My PC, despite low-power, can handle most games at 720p, except obviously the most power-hungry, and with the consideration that being 4 years old it doesn't support some games not due to lack of power or RAM, but due to newer games using features supported by GPUs newer than mine, so, I too will upgrade my PC after the next launches, obviously waiting some months for the components price to settle after the obvious rise that launch efforts and Xmas season combined (not to mention recent RAM price speculations after a fire in a Far East plant that produce it) will most surely cause. Price apart, I'll want to build a low price and low power consumption PC this time too, but that will satisfy my reasonable needs for some years like the previous ones, so I'll need some time to examine the new components and decide.