Converging Xbone and PC kills the console... or does it?

[Scisca]

Conina said:

Scisca said:

Everyone has a PC. Every console gamer has a PC and nowadays even average laptops (top tablets soon as well) are close to Xbone in performance, since the hardware race has slowed down the last couple years, we're hitting dimishing returns and manufacturers are more focused on power efficiency than raw power of the hardware.

I'd say, top tablets, top ultrabooks and "normal" laptops are more in the ballpark of an Xbox360 or PS3 right now and far away from XBO performance:

 

Desktop replacements with ultrafast mobile GPUs like GTX970m or GTX980m aren't "average laptops", they are niche. The slower mobile GPUs like GTX950m, GTX860m or anything AMD has to offer in laptops have no chance against the XBO performance.

With tablets I said "soon" - there are claims that in 2017 tablets will be in same ballpark as Xbone/PS4. That's fast enough, MS isn't launching tablet integrations in the upcoming months.

I've recently been playing GTA5 on my friend's over one year old laptop, which has an i5 and a 2GB nVidia video card - forgot which one, but I've checked that it's only slightly better than the newest Intel 530 iGPU - a rather average laptop. The game ran great. On PC you can always scale down the graphics a bit and the game will run - and that's all that's neccessary! Since gamers get this for the price of the Live subscription, without having to re-purchase the game (so Xbone gamers get this for free), nobody would complain and this would be a selling point.