| Chrkeller said: 1.5x the cost but online is free and the GPU can be upgraded without buying the inevitable Pro. Over the long haul I think PC is now cheaper. |
I have a spare PC that I built during the Xbox 360 generation that is playing Series X equivalent games. - The only piece of hardware changed in those 12 years? The GPU.
I would have needed to buy 3 consoles in that span.
Over the long haul, if you buy the right PC, it can last a couple of console generations easily enough.
| SvennoJ said: Well it is now (better performing) for 1.5x the price, 3 years after the PS5 launched. |
It's no secret that hardware prices in general has been bullshit the last several years due to COVID and Crypto.
Ram on PC and Playstation is also not comparable, PC loads assets differently to a console and has a memory hierarchy to obfuscate latency and bandwidth as much as possible.
Consequently you are ignoring last generation PC hardware that is often found cheaper than current gen hardware.
I.E. A Radeon 6700XT/6750XT is -the- best bang for buck GPU currently.
But you cannot discount the Geforce 20 series either as they can be found cheaply and are surprisingly capable.
The other advantage the PC has is... We don't need to engage in the console war.
Playstation exclusives? We get those. Xbox exclusives? We get those too. - Best of both gaming worlds. - We don't have to miss out on StarCitizen like Playstation gamers, but we also don't miss out on The Last of Us like Xbox gamers.
| V-r0cK said: The whole point was to have a $1100 budget and see what you get with it. The fact that you're not starting from scratch with your library makes your points invalid but cool to see you jump on PC's defense so fast without understanding the initial discussion. You new at reading? |
If you had even bothered to read my reply (Are -you- new at reading? Or just enjoy wasting time?) then you would have found I had outlaid several options for gamers on PC to build a games library from nothing.
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