How the PS4 and Xbox have raised PC system requirement

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Ruler said:

sc94597 said:
Anyway, PC gaming is much cheaper than it was fob the 6th ->7th gen.

No its not your graphicsscard alone costs 300€/$ for example

That's pretty much the only thing that costs money anymore, and you won't need a $300 one for console equivalent gaming. You can go budget on CPU, RAM and Mboard these days and a mid-tier GPU will be able to make up for the rest. CPUs haven't been particularly important in PC gaming for a few years now and 8GB of RAM has been standard for the last few years.

If you use a basic PC for work, adding a mid tier GPU allows you to play most games now, often with better quality or performance than the consoles.

For instance, my upper mid-tier 2013 build (i5 2500, 8Gig RAM, 2GB AMD HD7870), which would be even cheaper to build now is still regularly outperforming the PS4 and X1 on both graphics quality, resolution and/or performance.