famousringo said:
This guy makes a few mistakes and admits to some shortcomings, but he gets awfully close to building a PS4-equivalent for $400. Which should not surprise anybody, since "$400 gaming PC" is a pretty accurate description of the PS4. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/171158-can-you-build-a-gaming-pc-better-than-the-ps4-for-400 Honestly, even if you spend a couple hundred dollars extra to round out the PC, you will easily be able to make up the difference in Steam sales and online fees. Money is no reason to choose console over PC at this point. The only compelling reasons I can see are low maintenance, exclusive software, and local multiplayer, and those last two seem to get weaker every generation as development costs increase and publishers keep chasing "the Hollywood experience." |
tbh PC is losing exclusives too. diablo, witcher, portal, xcom and lots of SOE games just to name a few. No-one actually benefits by making their games exclusive to PC which is why as time goes along, it will get fewer and fewer big exclusives. Obviously it will always have more indies though.
And most that stuff is OOS, and youre still missing windows OS which would be required to play a lot of games.
There is no way you can build a PC which matches a console for just as much because there will be more people looking for more profit in the PC market than in the console market. Even if you do find something similar, the games for it are not going to be optimised for as much as they will be for the consoles hardware.
