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| Kyuu said: Lower-mid tier PC's are nowhere near the rumored PS6 specs. And PC prices are increasing a lot more than consoles' because they require a large amount of DDR RAM, a component that doesn't exist in consoles. |
Upper mid-tier (RTX XX60ti - XX70) PCs are probably going to be comparable to the PS6 when it releases, especially if it is delayed. An upper mid-tier PC has cost about $1000 - $1300 since 2020. The price of individual components have shifted (in 2020 there was a GPU crisis; in 2026 it's a ram crisis), but the overall price of such systems have been mostly stable. I bought an RTX 3060ti pre-build PC in 2021 (pre-build because of the GPU shortage) for $1200 and that was in the middle of the GPU crisis induced by GPU crypto-mining. RTX 3060ti's hit about $600 then, separately. Similarly, you can get RTX 5060ti prebuilds for that same price today. A PS5 cost $500 then. A PS6 at a hypothetical $700 is a lot closer to the $1000 - $1300 upper-mid range PC, price-wise, than the PS5 was in 2021. So it doesn't sound unreasonable for a $1000-$1300 RTX 6060ti PC to start cutting into a $700 - $800 PS6's sales.
The ram price increases for PC's have mostly been counteracted by the fact that CPUs are a lot cheaper-per-performance than they have been historically. Both Intel and AMD have great mid-tier CPUs, especially when talking about gaming in the $200 - $300 range. GPU's are also a lot lower than they were 5 years ago, even if not as low as they were 15-20 years ago.
