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A PlayStation 5 is £450 and will smoothly play any game I buy for it. PlayStation+ for 7 years is £350. Total cost excluding games is £800 for 7 years of smoot

A PlayStation 5 is £450 and will smoothly play any game I buy for it. PlayStation+ for 7 years is £350. Total cost excluding games is £800 for 7 years of smooth gameplay. An £800 PC wouldn’t even play current games smoothly, never mind releases in 7 years.

ChuckNorris89 6y ago
>An £800 PC wouldn’t even play current games smoothly Why do people assume you need a million $ PC to play current games smoothly? Is it the tech youtubers/influencers like Linus to blame for this madness where everything needs to be run at 4k 300Hz ULTRA settings to count as PC gaming? PC gaming hardware for a good experience is more affordable than people think. A 850-900 Euro PC (for us over the channel) with an RTX 2060 will definitely play all AAA titles very smoothly. Sure, not in native 4K, but consoles games(even next gen) are also not native 4K/ultra settings but rendered in lower fidelity then upscaled to whatever your TV output is. >never mind releases in 7 years. That PC will most definitely play games 7 years from now but on lower settings which will still match the visual fidelity of the 7 year old console as the game developers will have to lower game details to make the game playable on the then outdated console hardware.
- effingwewt 6y ago
  He also forgot you can simply keep upgrading you PC, and your PC can play all your old games without having to repurchase them. Also, if you added another $800 to your PC every 7 years it would still outperform a console. Also a gaming PC is still a usable computer, a console is not. Therefore a home PC can pay for itself by letting you code on it or whatever it is you may do. This is what worries me with younger generations. Just the other day when google shut down google music a top comment was pretty much 'sorry boomers no one keeps mp3s anymore we all stream get lost dinosaurs'[1] as if that streaming service would always be there...in a thread about a huge music SAAS shutting down! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25066751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25066751
  - jamespo 6y ago
    A lot of people want to play games on the couch with a controller, not hunched over a desk which is the typical pc experience.
    - effingwewt 6y ago
      Which can also be done on PC even wireless controller such as gasp PS4 and Xbone controllers.
  - mhh__ 6y ago
    That and you are going to end up buying a PC of some kind anyway because you can't work on a console
- pandaman 6y ago
  A 7 years old PC GPU equivalent to 2060 today is the Kepler GPU like Geforce 660, if you think you can match PS4 visual fidelity on that then you have not seen either one or another or both.
ErikVandeWater 6y ago
The better idea is to get a laptop $400-800 more expensive than the one you were looking at. That way you get benefit of performance across your laptop experience. With the amount of time anyone spends on a computer, the investment is worth it.
mhh__ 6y ago
An £800 PC shouldn't struggle with anything below 1440p. My PC cost that much 2 or 3 years ago and it barely turns the fans on playing most games even now

ChuckNorris89 6y ago

>An £800 PC wouldn’t even play current games smoothly Why do people assume you need a million $ PC to play current games smoothly? Is it the tech youtubers/influencers like Linus to blame for this madness where everything needs to be run at 4k 300Hz ULTRA settings to count as PC gaming? PC gaming hardware for a good experience is more affordable than people think. A 850-900 Euro PC (for us over the channel) with an RTX 2060 will definitely play all AAA titles very smoothly. Sure, not in native 4K, but consoles games(even next gen) are also not native 4K/ultra settings but rendered in lower fidelity then upscaled to whatever your TV output is. >never mind releases in 7 years. That PC will most definitely play games 7 years from now but on lower settings which will still match the visual fidelity of the 7 year old console as the game developers will have to lower game details to make the game playable on the then outdated console hardware.

effingwewt 6y ago
He also forgot you can simply keep upgrading you PC, and your PC can play all your old games without having to repurchase them. Also, if you added another $800 to your PC every 7 years it would still outperform a console. Also a gaming PC is still a usable computer, a console is not. Therefore a home PC can pay for itself by letting you code on it or whatever it is you may do. This is what worries me with younger generations. Just the other day when google shut down google music a top comment was pretty much 'sorry boomers no one keeps mp3s anymore we all stream get lost dinosaurs'[1] as if that streaming service would always be there...in a thread about a huge music SAAS shutting down! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25066751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25066751
- jamespo 6y ago
  A lot of people want to play games on the couch with a controller, not hunched over a desk which is the typical pc experience.
  - effingwewt 6y ago
    Which can also be done on PC even wireless controller such as gasp PS4 and Xbone controllers.
- mhh__ 6y ago
  That and you are going to end up buying a PC of some kind anyway because you can't work on a console
pandaman 6y ago
A 7 years old PC GPU equivalent to 2060 today is the Kepler GPU like Geforce 660, if you think you can match PS4 visual fidelity on that then you have not seen either one or another or both.

ErikVandeWater 6y ago

The better idea is to get a laptop $400-800 more expensive than the one you were looking at. That way you get benefit of performance across your laptop experience. With the amount of time anyone spends on a computer, the investment is worth it.

mhh__ 6y ago

An £800 PC shouldn't struggle with anything below 1440p. My PC cost that much 2 or 3 years ago and it barely turns the fans on playing most games even now