Ohnoitsalex gave a pretty good explanation the PS5 Pro is even overpriced compared to a PC since it has a lot of added costs. Plus he gave the actual hardware needed to make it comparable to a gaming PC within almost the same price range.
PC has a lot of added time costs though. Time / convenience is more valuable than money for people interested in a PS5 Pro / consoles over all.
You can call it a scam, but you'll never have to configure a game, never have to hunt for solutions online, never run into compatibility issues, and you don't need to put it together and install an OS, drivers etc on it.
I can save money too by peeling my own potatoes, cutting them in sticks and frying them in oil from scratch. Or I can buy a bag of 5 minute super fries, stick em in the air fryer and be eating in 5 minutes. Arguably fresh fries taste better, but I don't have time for that. Same thing with gaming PCs. I can make it look better, run better, save a couple bucks in the long run, however I just want to sit down and play at the end of a long day.
Anyway I see DF already debunked this.
And it was the same when the PS5 came out, lots of PC builds of comparable pricing with supposedly the same performance. Not sure who these cheap builds are for anyway. Gaming PC enthusiasts will want to have plenty overhead, not be bottle necked by 'comparable' performance. They want to have better looking graphics than on console. Those going for PS5 Pro are of the same mindset, but already passed on PC for lack of convenience. They're not suddenly going to abandon their library of games to muck around with a 'comparable' performance PC.
It's a shame Steam gave up quickly on the Steam PC. If that would have caught on with full support, optimized settings for all Steam games, it might get more people to abandon consoles. For mass market the onboarding experience needs to be as seamless as with consoles. You buy a box, put it next to the TV, turn it on, get greeted by Steam big picture mode and pick what to play. Then discover you can do a lot more with it.
?Really? My ps5 games offer performance mode versus quality. Many offer 120 hz and most have RT as an option as well. Ps5 games do have configurations and settings. Not too mention PC has presets for games, so configuration takes a whopping 5 seconds?
And I fired up my ps5 today... had to update the system, followed by a controller update.
Also ran out of storage space last year and had to take my ps5 apart and upgrade the hdd.
I get your point PC requires more time, but I think you are exaggerating or going off antiquated historic views. Nvidia has Ready Now drivers... updating drivers is as easy as updating ps5 controllers.
The gap, both convenience and pricing, has gotten massively smaller between PC and consoles. That is just the reality.
