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Captain_Tom on 13 July 2014
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Intrinsic said:
Captain_Tom said:
To make a PC (With OS) that is as strong as the PS4 would cost $600-$700, but would most likely make much of its money back from game sales and lack of having to pay for online.

However one could build a PC for $300 that while quite a bit weaker than the PS4, would still be a lot stronger than last-gen consoles and could keep up with games for the entirety of this generation.

Then again one could also build a PC for $1200 that is 4x as strong as the PS4!

My point is that PC gaming is whatever you want it to be. If you are poor and can only afford a $300 budget build + $5 games you will be happy as hell! But if you want to blow $2000 on a monster you can of course pay more for more.


P.S. Anyone who says these PC's would need to be replaced in 3 years doesn't understand that upgrading is optional, and a PC that is as strong as a PS4 will be as viable for gaming as long as a PS4 is. However you can upgrade IF YOU WANT TO. This is called FREEDOM!

Which begs the question... is any of it necesary? My current PC rig has two HD7970 GPUs in it, 16GB of Ram, a core i7, 4Tb HDD (storage drive), 256GB (OS and app drive) PCIe SSD  and a cintiq 24" pad. Mostly I use it for work related stuff, my Plex media hub and digital art (hobby of mine) but have probably not played a game on it more than 3 times in the past 12 months. I have a surface pro 3 now and it was a replacement for a macbook pro laptop. And funny thing is, browsing, youtube forums etc I prefer doing all that on my surface pro...even coding (nothing beats writing code on the crapper). Now this surface pro, it sure cost me a small fortune but its packing a core i7 and is basically the top of the line model. I can't even call it a tablet (if it weren't actually a tablet) cause it outperforms most laptops out there.

Now in all my time in college and then all my time as an independent adult so lets say over the past 15 years, I have not met one single other person that actually has a desktop. Everyone I know has a laptop and more and more of them seem to be having a tablet now. Times are changing. And I am sure if you ask a majority of people you or anyone here knows that has never heard of VGcharts, neogaf...etc if they have a desktop; the answer would be a resounding NO. 

I know all the benefits associated with owning a PC (even though I believe that some championed in this thread are purely subjective) I just feel the this notion that tehre are a lot of people that will want to get a desktop is nothing more than an enthusiast myth. Forum fodder so to speak. Which is natural cause there should be more enthusiast gaming hobbyist in or on forums than everyone else. Everyone else is the majority and that majority isn't interested, doesn't care, feel its too complicated, too ignorant or any combination of these factors; to get into PC gaming.

In this thread, you will see countless of suggestions (options) on how best to build a PC and for how many other types of budgets. Deals and sales, combinations or exceptions...etc. This may all sound ok to most of us here, but we all would be foolish if we somehow think that cause we do it or its easy for us its the norm. A majority of consumers, would simply rather just go and buy a console. Walk into a store, walk to that isle that has playstation, nintendo or xbox boldly branded all over it and just pick up a box and walk to the cashier. Done. Do people here realize that a majority of the people worldwide that own a PC doesn't even know what a GPU is or what RAM is for and how it differes from a HDD, not to mention that there are different types of all the afore entioned things.

Selling the idea of a PC to the general public, is like trying to get them to put a turbo charger in their civic, new muflers, a racing wheel, racing suspension..etc. Or even worse, it slike trying to get them not buy a civic at all and just buy a chassis, then buy every other part that makes up the car seperately.


Look idk where you go to college, but I go to an engineering school and almost everyone has one.  Is this most people?  NO!  But I believe around 20-40% of PC's sold each year are still desktops, so there are plenty.  Hell LOOK IT UP!  The number of gaming desktops sold is increasing!