Pemalite said:
goopy20 said:
That's what I'm saying. It will all come down to pricing and performance if upgrading to a RTX3060 is the better option instead of buying a next gen console. It's something that I can't remember ever happened before.
At the start of current gen it was a no brainer as you could pick up a GTX760 or a GTX970 that was cheaper than current gen consoles and had double the performance. All I'm saying is that it's a bit different this time around. I mostly play on pc and, for the first time ever, I'm honestly not sure if upgrading it will be the smartest thing to do. At least not at the beginning of the next console generation.
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When the Playstation 4 launched... The Radeon 7850 become the Radeon 265. Quite literally as it's the same core.
The 260X could meet the 7850's performance level through aggressive clocks and higher bandwidth as well.
The difference a year in the PC space makes.
The Geforce 7800GT in the Playstation 3 was upper high-end... Before the Playstation 3 launched... nVidia dropped the Geforce 8800 series and pushed the Geforce 7800/7900 to the mid range.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2116/21
eva01beserk said:
You honestly believe that there could not be some people out there down on their luck and have like $500 only to spare and while they would love to go to pc first and upmost, they can see how for those $500 it might be better to go console or get a very low end pc and get an indisputable lower experience? Maybe save and later on go pc? Some one who has small kids and cant operate a pc so must get a console for them but cant afford a pc on top of it? Please dont tell me you believe all of pc gamers have cash spilling out their wallets at all times. There are people out there who have a primary choice but just are not able to aford it. Other wise we would all be living in mansions by the beach driving Ferrari and Lamborghini.
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The PC isn't some device that only sits at one price point.
You can buy PC's that are cheaper than an Xbox One/Playstation 4... Or you can buy a PC that is the same price as an Xbox One/Playstation 4 or you can buy a PC that is orders-of-magnitude faster and more expensive than the Xbox One or Playstation 4. It's called choice.
You can choose what games, what visual settings you wish to run at for any given hardware and budget.
That is the reason why PC's have hundreds of millions of gamers across the planet... And why a console that costs $400-$500 does't seem to be able to steal PC gamers away regardless of it's hardware.
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Wow I didn't know the 7800GTX was $599 when it launched! Well, then maybe you're right and we could see RTX2080 Super like performance for around $299 on pc when the next gen hits. I guess we'll have to wait and see if the RTX3XXX series will also push RTX2xxx to low-end prices.
