Simple - PS5

Buying the 3080 isn't going to get you any new games, sure it may make some of the existing ones run better but thats about it. PS5 is aimed at new games (backwards are a nice but not main driver) and don't forget the exclusives.

Oh and the 2080 you bought came out 2years ago. The PS4 lasted 7 years and the ps5 will probably last the same. If you are going to replace your graphics cards every 2 years then financially its not even close.

Early Access was a poor choice of words. I didn't mean to imply that the game was incomplete or anything. The game is complete whenever it is launched on PS5. You're paying $500 to get it sooner. Not worth it IMO.

Be that as it may, in 3 years even if you get the game and be able to play it better, there will be other games still not available and with a 3 year gap in development even better than the one just coming then.

Now aply that to the graphics card, in one year there will already be better and cheaper versions. in 3 years a much cheaper version will destroy it with who knows what the next tech will bring that this one does not and at the same time you will still be only able to play the same games with a lot of the best ones locked behing the ps5 while that its still viable at a lower cost. 

that seems to be the case. 

So, there are no new games releasing on PC? Then why the hell am I spending so much money on Hardware?

Well yes, in that case if you really feel you need to play those other PS5 games then get a PS5 in three years once the exclusives really start to ramp up, the price has gone down, and the initial run of faulty launch edition consoles is gone.

The 3000 series graphics cards are the biggest leap in GPU price to performance since 2004, according to LinusTechTips.  For that reason,I sincerely doubt a new card will come along to crush the 3080 in price to performance ratios, within three years.

He means no new exclusives. But that's not exactly true. PC gets critically acclaimed games not playable on Sony systems quite often.

But cards come out every single year, be it a brand new series or a refresh, they come every year and they beat the price to performance even if its only slightly in case of a refresh like the super was. as for waiting for ps5 games you always have more coming yearly but you dont get yearly relacements, or notiaceble pricedrops. so in one year you could say your glad you waited for a new card, cuz you got better and lower price, but in one year you still get the same ps5 but you had to wait on some games. if you wait 3 years you could have a twice better card, but the same ps5 probably $100 cheaper but you have had missed a bunch of great games that even if they came to pc, by then they be outdated and you probably wont want to play them anymore cuz there are much better games now. 

So someone like him who is planing on getting both, will most likely benefit from getting the one wich depreciates in value slower.

Well, I don't know if you'd be able to get double the performance of a 3080 in three years or not. @Pemalite How does 2015's 980 Ti launching at $695 compare to 2018's 2080 at around $700? Is the 2080 double the performance of the 980 Ti?

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Games don't become outdated within three years. Ten? Perhaps. But tons of games out there have aged wonderfully.

Guess for me 80% improvement doesn't seem that impressive when consoles will be getting 1000% improvement due to the longer time between versions.