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Intrinsic on 03 November 2014
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Pemalite said:

I agree to a point, but again, do read above on why it's not an accurate represenation of the entire picture, thus a cost analysis (With similar hardware, if that is what truly floats your boat, but I would like to see what kind of PC hardware+games you can get at various price points and have those data points compared to consoles.) is truly required for a complete understanding of the cost-issue in a fair and competent manner, otherwise it's like peeing into the wind, hardly ideal.

"The entire Picture". This little thing that you and a few others seem to insist on doing here is what completely derails this argument. 

You are trying to add a factor that has nothing to do with results trying to be achieved.

There is no cost issue. There is how a game runs on one platform as opposed to another. Ok. Let us take consoles outta the equation if that makes you feel better.

Can you do me a favour;

  • can you tell me which sub $200 PC GPU runs BF4 teh best on PC assuming RAM and CPU are identical in your tests?
  • Then can you tell me which sub $500 GPU runs the game best?
I am guessing to do this test, you will not put a $1500 GPU in your hardware test bed. Cause its not in the same class of a sub $200 or sub $500 GPU.
What has what you spend on games got to do with how you compare the actual performace of the game on different hardware????
Like seriously.... why complicate it? You are asked to compare the performace of a game on different hardware, then you go on and on about the cost of the games on the different hardware???????
Its not that hard... LOOK, other people have done similar stuff!!!! So I am not crazy after all, cause this table shows theer is a right way to measure game performance. Do you see them mentioning price when talking about performance?
If you look at the chart above you wil see that a PS4 is almost identical to a HD 7850. So why would any PC gamer feel the need to compare a game running on a HD7850 to it running on an R9 290x? Its not like the HD7850 or its equivalent just seized to exist. That is the point of this entire thread.