BuckStud said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
think-man said:
I don't seem to remember them being around a few years ago, all of a sudden they've pop up out of no where.
Have they always been here?
What birthed them? To me it just seems like they're trying to always jump into the console wars, I see Sony and xbox fanboys going at it all the time and then I see a random PC gamer trying to jump in and downplay them. I always got the feeling that the PC gamer was a Nintendo fanboy though, and instead of bringing up Nintendo they bring up PC because it will always win the graphics fight.
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It's because of Moore's Law and consoles not wanting to go above 100 W.
Basically;
PS1/N64 gen V PC = Consoles beat the PC hands down on power and cost.
PS2/Xbox V PC = Again, consoles trumped the PC. Unless you had a state of the art machine for silly money, you couldn't get close.
7th Gen V PC = This is where it changed. On launch, a £2000 PC would match a console. Then, with DX10 and Crysis coming out a year later, a high end rig would beat the consoles.
Now because the 7th gen went on far too long, a basic £700 PC in 2009/10 trashed the consoles with DX11 and far more power.
8th Gen V PC = Consoles were DOA to PC owners at the start. That £700 PC from 2009 matches the power of the xbone. A £600 PC is at least x2 as powerful as the PS4, and a high end PC is x4 + more powerful than the consoles. One reason is graphics cards grew rapidly in size and power eg. a r9 290 (x3 better than the ps4) is ~28cm long and consumes ~ 300 W alone.
From 2008 onwards, consoles could never match PCs for power, however a cheap solution to gaming will always be dominated by consoles.
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...but, most of the people who complain about the cost of a gaming computer are typing their complaint on a computer that cost them something and own a console. For $500 you can biuld a PC that is as good or better than the 8th gen consoles. Besides that, you have millions of games to chose from and can do more than just play games on it.
Me, I own most of the systems and a gaming computer as there are great games exclusive to all. People just need to stop the whole my console is more powerful than yours, because it's just silly.. PS4 fans act like their part of some exclusive club...it's $400, it's not like you have to have multi millions to buy one. You just come off looking foolish to anyone who owns multiple systems.
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Not really.
Gaming has been crap over the last 4 years because of horrific stagnation brought on by the consoles. More power is better as it allows devs to do more rather than reskin and relaunch the same game. Yes, owning a console it isn't impressive to anyone who has a half decent job, but pushing more power is always a plus so in my opinion, I let it slide.
