CONSOLEs vs PC

[Pemalite]

ICStats said:

Pemalite said:

ICStats said:

Also certainly there were no GPUs with 8GB of addressable GDDR5, or DirectX 11+ capabilities that far ago.

I still don't have "8Gb" of total addressable GDDR5 in my PC for games. - Only 4Gb. (16Gb total for compute or non-combined tasks.)
Yet, I still have over 10x the GPU performance of the PS4.

Hmm, so what do you have 4 GTX Titan SLI?

If yes then it seems about as relevant as comparing your single PC to a compute cluster and laughing at how poor single PCs are.

I wouldn't be caught dead using nVidia.

But you are right.

However, my point was, you don't need "8Gb" of GDDR5 to match or exceed the PS4's performance.

ICStats said:

Your PC also doesn't get any better over the years unless you buy more upgrades.

Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.

Lets take my main PC as an example shall we? When I first built it, the motherboards BIOS/UEFI was still pretty "fresh", over the years and thanks to the tweaks Asus has performed at the BIOS/UEFI level my overclocking headroom increased from 4.6ghz to 5ghz on my 3930K.

PC's also constantly get driver updates that increases performance.

You also get Game, OS and API updates which also improves performance and in some cases, graphics (Aka. Half Life).

Older games also get released with "mods" which can drastically improve the graphics of a game, shall I provide some examples? Some of them can compete with the latest and prettiest of games.
You also can get mods that do the reverse of improving graphics, thus reducing the graphics below what the game was designed for in order to run on antiquated hardware. (I.E. "Oldblivion" which allows you to run Oblivion on Origional Xbox class PC hardware.) or Shadershock for Bioshock.

To say that the PC doesn't get any better with time, has NEVER been true.

ICStats said:

And sure, a PC can do more but there are many options for that.  A gaming PC generally means big, noisy, not portable.  So if you want to "do more" you might choose a laptop that is not good for gaming, but is light and portable.

When it comes to the PC, you can't *really* stereotype it.
You wan't something that's small, silent and portable in the PC space (Aka. Console Dimensions?) Then ITX is the way to go.

Asrock even did a prebuilt with a quad-core Haswell CPU with enough room to drop an nVidia Titan inside of it.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7055/computex-2013-asrocks-m8-miniitx-gaming-pc

Or hows about something a little more extreme? Water cooling in a prodigy case! Even has handles for the portability factor. (Something the Playstation and Xbox lack. :P)