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Bofferbrauer on 03 January 2016
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sabvre42 said:
sc94597 said:
nitus10 said:


Country to what the wannabe PC designers say if you are a serious gamer you are going to spend well over US$1000 on a decent gaming machine 

My PC cost me about $750 after tax with my current hardware (including upgrades.) It plays the Witcher 3 at 1080p High (some Ultra settings) 45 - 50fps, Fallout 4 maxed at 55-60 fps, Dragon Age Inquisition maxed at locked 30 fps, Watch Dogs high/very high locked at 30 fps, emulates PS2, Wii, GC games flawlessly, etc, etc. 

Here's the hardware:

i5 4690k @ 4.4 Ghz ($210)

r9 280x ($200)

8 GB DDR3 1600mhz ($50)

240 GB SSD ($70)

ASROCK Z97 Motherboard ($90)

1 TB HDD ($45)

Osrock Case ($40)

Corsair 500 W PSU ($20)

Keyboard and Mouse ($20)

Operating System (free, but windows 7 keys can be found for $20)

Today you can buy a PC that outpaces this quite decently for the same price. And my PC already decently outpaces the PS4 by about 30% better performance depending on the application. If i cut out extras (like my HDD or SSD) and went for a cheaper CPU this PC would still perform better than the PS4 for less than $600. 

 

Unless you have MSDN, you just admitted to being a pirate and proved half why so many build costs are wrong (for people that aren't douchebag pirates).

 

To get a legit version of a current OS it usually costs $100-150.

This only applies for Windows or the Redhat Version of Linux though. Any other Linux distribution and SteamOS (which is based on Linux) are free

Ruler said:

A Blue Ray Drive alone will cost you 50 bucks and PS4 controller with the same quality 70$/€. You cant beat something which is massivley produced and aimed at making profit with the software instead hardware espacially when it comes to built quality, so i dont understand why PC gamers in this thread try to downplay it and say you can built a PC for the same money like a PS4. 

for 350 bucks the PS4 is an undenaible beastly cheap package if you can also run a PC OS on it, even you must admit it.

- it can play blue ray and DVDs

- it can play physical PS4 games on an offline account

- you get a nice Controller which would otherwise cost 70€, its also possible to plug in USB extansion for having more USB ports

- it has a very compact formfactor try to buy a PC with the same size and built quality

It would be a great secondarry PC in the living room, and if PC games cold run as well on the PS4 it would be a Killer deal.

How do you get to 70$/€ for a controller? Even a wireless Xbox ONE controller for Windows only costs 45-50€/$, and 360 controllers even for just 30€/$. And yes, these are the official ones from Microsoft, not third party knockoffs.

You can build PC which are just as compact as a PS4 with similar product quality. Here's a pretty good one which also includes PSU and a cardreader: https://www.alternate.de/Chieftec/FI-02BC-U3-Desktop-Gehäuse/html/product/1104207?tk=7&lk=8353 It does limit the size of graphics cards however to low profile cards, which are comparatively weak.