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Galaki on 22 May 2013

It's certainly not possible to built similar specs desktop with the same price, even if they priced them at break even.

It would make a nice desktop upgrade if you could wipe the box and install PC OS of choice.

What do you think?



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ithis on 22 May 2013

The consoles have lots of small customizations that you can't get in your DIY PC. Also you can't get GDDR5 as main ram yet. We'll see what that does to the PS4 games in a 3 years or so I think.



Gehirnkrampf on 22 May 2013

i think it is fact that PS4 and XBox One won't hold up with PCs as long as previous gen managed to do. After all, they use the same architecture as standard PCs, which means a increase in the quality of development tools and programming skills, and multithreading knowhow and so on gained from console programming also affects PC development. but the PC evolves in hardware. So maybe it won't take another 8 years until we see PS5 or Xbox... Two?!
Maybe Sony and MS even plan on ending their consoles this gen. They could stream everything, no need for better hardware.



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zarx on 22 May 2013

Doubtful they will likely lock up the kernel and firmware pretty tight to prevent hacking. And even if/when the security is hacked there will still be the matter of drivers for the custom hardware.



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haxxiy on 22 May 2013
Gehirnkrampf said:
i think it is fact that PS4 and XBox One won't hold up with PCs as long as previous gen managed to do. After all, they use the same architecture as standard PCs, which means a increase in the quality of development tools and programming skills, and multithreading knowhow and so on gained from console programming also affects PC development. but the PC evolves in hardware. So maybe it won't take another 8 years until we see PS5 or Xbox... Two?

Nicht so schnell, freund. See, the fact consoles used a different architecture before doesn't mean they were better, you can optimize in ways you can't for the PC all the same on an x86 console. Besides, PCs are starting to evolve slowly. GPUs, HDDs and RAM have all but unspokenly shifted to a 3-year Moore cycle. Also, diminishing returns. Overall consoles should probably last the same, if not even longer.