| deskpro2k3 said: Now here is where I see a flaw in your claim. You can build a PC for $500 that can mimic the PS4 specs. I guarantee you that your $500 PC will have poor performance playing new games 5 years later. PS4 games will be optimise and have better performance without needing to spend for upgrades. Try building a PC with PS3 specs and run MW3 or MW4 on it. You'll see what I mean. |
Considering you can't buy hardware that's equivalent to a PS3/Xbox 360, that point is now moot.
However, if you bought a Core 2 Quad at the start of the PS3/360 generation and game at equivalent settings, the cost of online access alone could have kept you gaming just fine.
Heck, even the "next generation" console multiplatforms run on such a system just fine (For now at-least) and you didn't have to drop hundreds of bucks to achieve that, just a $30-$60 GPU upgrade.
PC is always cheaper in the long run, developers also get larger profits due to not only giving the publishers a large cut, but Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo too.
But here is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 running on a console equivalent PC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWRJRCNO_A
Or hows about Crysis 2?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZbLAtoZNOY
Metro 2033 even?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spMcCWUeqyY
Skyrim on even worse-specs than a console? (Single Core CPU, Radeon x1650)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLyjqhMpGM
Battlefield 4 with a $30 GPU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEFy6RwWoDg
The PC is extremely scalable, you can go up or down.
For instance take Oblivion for example, if you alter the shaders and get some low-poly model replacements and scale down all the effects you could get it running on origional Xbox class hardware (Geforce 3 and Pentium 3), the reverse holds true aswell where you can scale the image quality so it surpasses the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
| Hynad said: This car analogy is shit. To say the least. Most performance cars have poor handling, among other things that more affordable cars excel at in comparison. |
Depends on the performance car, after driving a Monaro I wouldn't think the same.
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