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greenmedic88 on 12 September 2014
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Intrinsic said:
greenmedic88 said:
Intrinsic said:
ToxicJosh said:
Interesting article.

Just throwing it out there as a pseudo-conspiracy: could Nintendo be working on the first 4k console right now? And could that be why the Wii U has some of the hallmarks of a stop gap console?

lol... you must not know nintendo.

OT: this is a very stupid article. It keeps baffling me how so many people that work at sites like these and go as far as write articles about gaming seem to know so little about the industry.

Like does he realize that right now a 4k gaming rig will cost at least $2000? and thats maybe even lowballing it.

Very lowballing.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/29/gaming-in-4k-the-future-is-now-if-you-give-up-60-frames-per-second/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/08/11/nvidia-titan-z-powered-4k-pc-gaming-just-got-surprisingly-affordable/

Whats funny about that is that the very same forbes website put up that article analysing the current cost of a 4k gaming set up. And from al indications it was gonna cost well over $5000. So he basically is saying that sony/ms/nintendo to make and subsidize a $5000 console and sell it for $400? Whats even more funny, is that in that analysis article they kept on using the word "configure" meaning even they couldn't afford to buy it yet this new article somehow suggests that in two years everyone will have a 4k tv?

Just so stupid.

I'm guessing the article, or I should say the writer of the article is looking at his magic crystal ball 4-5 years into the future and the magic ball is being very optimistic. 

If so, yeah; I'm totally on board for a PS5 that does native 4k resolution for $400 in five years rather than spending $4000 on a 4K gaming PC today or even in 2015. 

In the meantime, we're not going to be seeing 4K gaming PCs under $1K even within the next 2-3 years. We'll see; I could be wrong, but the rate at which GPU performance scales, which in term determines price of performance is pretty predictable.