PS4Pro was made to compete with PC - Sony Exec.

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ICStats said:

eva01beserk said:

they are? really? I could have sworn that ps4 has kepted selling way more than pc parts do, also I could have sworn that games make most of their profits on consoles(ps4 the most). I also thought the price to performance is also way in favor to the ps4. Or is loosing on all front only mean what you value like raw power? Something only a handfull of rigs can actually do. Cuz if so, the regular ps4 matches the majority of pc gamers acording to steam. WHy dont you tell me theese fronts you speak off.

PC has just been doing too much winnning.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-10-year-low-in-q2-2015/

"Shipments of discrete graphics adapters for desktops dropped to 9.4 million units in Q2 2015, which is minimum amount in more than ten years. According to JPR, sales of graphics cards dropped 16.81 per cent compared to the previous quarter, whereas sales of desktop PCs decreased 14.77 per cent. The attach rate of add-in graphics boards (AIBs) to desktop PCs has declined from a high of 63 per cent in Q1 2008 to 37 per cent this quarter. Average sales of graphics cards have been around 15 million units per quarter in the recent years, but declined sharply in 2014."

Huh, you don't suppose that the launch of PS4 and XB1 at the end of 2013 could have contributed to the decline from 15 million units to 9.4 million units per quarter?

 

The decline of add-in graphic boards over the last years has more to do with the integrated GPUs in modern CPUs, which have become "good enough" for many tasks (office work, less demanding games, youtube...).

5 - 8 years ago, even most office PCs had an entry-level AIB like a Geforce 510, 520 or 530, because the CPU had no GPU-functions or they were shit. Today most graphic cards are bigger than whole office PCs attached to a monitor.

There ain't no entry-models like a GeForce 910, 920, 930 or 1010, 1020, 1030 because these GPUs wouldn't make much sense if they are slower than the i3 or i5 CPU. The smallest Maxwell chip was a GM107 (GTX 745, 750 + 750 Ti).