| Intrinsic said: Say you have a game. COD:AW. You have this game on the PS4 and have it on a PC. Say the GPU in your PC alone costs $1000. Between it and the PS4 which platform do you think will run the game better? I would assume the OBVIOUS answer is the PC with the $1000 GPU. What this thread is about, is how little sense there is in comparing the game running on that PC to the $400 console. What has the cost of the game got to do with that point????? |
You are overexagerrating again with the $1000 GPU example. You don't need such a monster to have the multiple performance of the APU of the PS4 or XBO.
A $300 GPU like the GTX970 already has 3 - 4 times the performance of the XBO when the PC port is bad (Dead Rising 3).
And you can't build a PC with the PS4 or XBO performance for $350 - $400? True. Because the manufacturers of the PC components (Intel, Asus, Nvidia, AMD) AND the PC system sellers (Dell, Lenovo...) AND the supplier of the OS (Microsoft) all have to make their cut in the initial sale. Neither of them is getting a dime royalties for a PC game sale, so they can't sell the hardware without profit in hopes of later royalties or subscriptions.
But that doesn't mean you can't compare PCs that are a bit more expensive ($500 - $800) to $400 consoles. It's not all black and white and taking continuing costs into account for all systems makes sense.
