> I bought my midrange desktop including monitor and peripherals for less than $900 three years ago and yet from a performance perspective it's still 30% faster

> I bought my midrange desktop including monitor and peripherals for less than $900 three years ago and yet from a performance perspective it's still 30% faster than the PS4. In raw computing power perhaps but consoles have an advantage over the PC due to the fact that developers will optimize their games heavily and specifically for a console. > Somehow that PS4 lasts 10 years but the PC has to be upgraded every year Not sure where you're getting this from. I said that the PS4 would be upgraded 3 times over 10 years (i.e. the console lasts 3 years) and that the PC's GPU would be upgraded every 2-3 years, with other upgrades like CPU, RAM etc. coming around every 4 years. I think that's fair given that a mid range GPU from 2013 can barely meet the minimum requirements of some of the latest games. > You are also forgetting the fact that you can literally get the best consumer PC hardware on the planet for a mere $1700 $1700 is not a trivial amount of money. Sure you could get a beast of a PC for that price. You could also buy a PS4 and 23 new release games (or say 3 new release games for $60 and 30 older games for $40). I think selling the PC is pretty hard with those kinds of numbers.