So what did you mean by this?Captain Mazda wrote: Yeah but I wasn't claiming that. If I was only into gaming, I couldn't justify building a high-end rig and maintaining it. But since I use it as a workstation most of the time, the gaming potential is a bonus. Although with the way consoles are becoming obsolete faster, the cost gap is closing compared to a custom PC
I'd also argue the point about PCs being more affordable. For even a mid range GFX card you are looking at £400 now. PC gaming is not cheap, it never has been and certainly is not at the moment.Captain Mazda wrote: Consoles can't handle modern games without gimping down the lighting effects, AI, and physics computations. Even with the newest models, they can't achieve true 4K at 60fps despite all the marketing hype.
As slight aside, I think there is a difference between raw performance and experience (which is something else I will touch on later). While the PS5 might have titles that can't match the fidelity of a high end PC, as an experience when it comes to loading etc, it's in a different league. Now, I have 2 very fast NVME M.2 drives in my PC which can load things very nicely indeed (I am also running an X570 mobo with 32gb of RAM, so yes, I can run both at full PCIE 4.0) but on games that have been optimised for the PS5, there is no comparison. You go from console dash board to playing a game in 3 or 4 seconds and that shiz makes a difference. Instant reloads in game when you die, stuff like that is noticeable when you come back to PC gaming.
Expensive peripherals are certainly a thing, but built to break? I don't think I've ever broken anything for a console. I mean, I have almost destroyed a PS3 pad with beer but nothing has structurally, mechanically or electronically broken for me. Which I would say could be luck, but I've owned almost every major console since the Mega drive.Captain Mazda wrote:In order to have the convenience and relatively cheap cost of a console—although it adds up with overpriced games, expensive peripherals built to break, online subscription services, etc.—the performance and graphics quality has to suck compared to a PC. Problem is hardcore console fans don't understand this, so they're review-bombing a game that looks and runs great on high-end hardware where it was meant to be played.
You have people review bombing a game because it runs at 15fps for good portions of time on a console it has been released for. And rightly so, in my opinion. You cannot release a game on a console and have it perform that badly and expect people to be OK with it. It's going to be a terrible experience and that will taint your view of the game because that is the game you are playing and experiencing on that machine.
Example; If you were going to release a book and had hyped it up to be the best story ever told so you got loads of pre-orders, then get the book printed with black letters on slightly less black paper for 90% of the copies you are sending to your audience, those people who receive the black on black books are quite rightly going to be annoyed. You'll strain your eyes trying to read it, get fed up and wonder why it was ever released in such a state, which is is what you'll tell people because it's the experience you've had. Having a few select people who have it printed in standard black on white who can tell you it's the best story ever and a wonderful experience isn't going to change your opinion or experience of it. It might leave you open to coming back to it in the future when you might have access to an easier to read version and your opinion of it might change after that, but it changes nothing in the here and now when it comes to your interaction with said book. And it's the same for this game. People were sold a beautiful, vibrant world and they've ended up with an ugly, choppy mess that verges on unplayable at times.
True thatCaptain Mazda wrote:No single GPU on the market can run the latest and most graphics-heavy games at ultra settings in 4K 60fps. There are a lot of dumbass PC gamers with money to burn that don't realize this and get mad when Cyberpunk makes their cards squeal. 1440p 144hz is the sweet spot right now for maximum quality and performance.
