PC Gamers are delusional (controversial opinion)

[Pemalite]

deskpro2k3 said:

Pemalite said:

 

It's not guaranteed and if it does arrive it will have to be downgraded which is again a compromise.
Plus space sims typically are best with flight sticks or failing that, keyboard and mouse, you would also loose mod support.

I was playing games better than the next-gen consoles could handle even a few years before the Playstation 4 was even launched.
I was using Tessellation during the Playstation 2 era, something which is only going to finally be in full swing on the PS4, Xbox One and WiiU.

As a PC gamer, you're not affected by those downgrade compromise.

Exactly.

Kane1389 said:

kowenicki said:
There is another aspect to this. Take a look at the steam survey hardware survey... you will see how right you are and its not remotely controversial.

I think a lot of PC gamers lie about their "rigs"

This is actually true. Surveys on most webites (including gamespot, the breeding ground of PC snobs) showed that most master race snobs had rigs that are weaker than PS4 and even Xbone, despite them bragging about PC in every console thread

Well. I don't know if that's true or not.
However if you look on the Steam survey roughly 5.4 million PC's are significantly faster than the Playstation 4. (Hint: That's currently more than all the PS4's and Xbox One's sold combined thus far.)
Majority however are substantually weaker.
Another massive portion aren't reported correctly to Steam.

For example Steam will only count single GPU's in the GPU chart... So someone with 4 year old Dual-Radeon 5870's are faster than the Playstation 4, but it's not seen that way on the statistics.
Someone with 5 year old Quad Radeon 4870's is faster than the Playstation 4 and it will only count as a single GPU. (Granted also lacks Direct X 11 compatible effects.)
The statistics also don't account for Optimus or Enduro powered systems as the GPU is turned off unless a 3D call is made, so the amount of Intel IGP's that are listed in the statistics is higher than it is in reality.

Then to compound the fact that, most multi-platforms are badly ported and could run on a toaster doesn't help things either, most 6+ year old Core 2 Quads combined with a $30 GPU can run the majority of games today just fine at 720P. (I.E. Console Equivalent.)
In time, one should expect the amount of systems that eclipses the PS4 should rapidly increase once games start to demand more, in-fact that trend is already occuring.