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Corranga

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On 03/09/2020 at 09:32, Pelekophoros said:

 

Maybe, but the last time we did the whole "Sony and Xbox have delivered hopelessly underpowered consoles compared to PCs, who would even buy these things" they went on to sell....*checks Google*....160 million consoles between them. And on top of that some of the most gorgeous videogames I've ever witnessed have been released in that time.


Absolutely, and this time the consoles, by comparison, aren’t hopelessly underpowered, and do have some new gen PC things about them with the fast SSD and RT stuff, plus much better optimisation than PC will get.

 

The other thing of course is that they’ll be compatible for the next 5 years min (more like 7+ as console cycles seem to get longer) while the PC won’t.

 

Those saying you can get a high end PC for £1000 are kidding too, I’m no PC expert but have been watching the market recently . £1000 gets you a Ryzen 5 3600 with a 2070 Super (Equiv cost to 3070) at the moment with 16gb and either 2tb hdd and a tiny 240gb ssd or maybe a 1tb ssd, and those are sata.

But for future proofing, you’ll want a better gaming board, an nvme SSD as well as the hdd for storage and likely a better power supply, and that’s all with stock cooling. You’re CPU will be wanting swapped out for one with more cores and You may possibly want 32gb ram too, and really, if you’re going this far, might as well stick the 3080 in it too.  Now we are talking about a £1500-1600 machine that still can’t play Gran Turismo for the cost of 2x consoles a bunch of games, and years of PS plus and Game Pass, or for most folk, 1x consoles plus 1x 55 inch+ 4k TV (and my pc cost also doesn’t include a display).


Don’t get me wrong, there are reasons to look at PCs, but despite the price of the new NVidia kit, value isn’t one of them.


 

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HarryBizzle

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16 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

Still going to be a bigger chunk of the manufacturing cost than we’re used to, compared to those PS5 HDDs at about £10 per unit or whatever.


I think it’s probably the better long term strategy (for consumers), to be honest. Prices will come down and by the end of the gen I imagine putting a 4TB drive in there will cost significantly less than buying one of Microsoft’s silly, proprietary memory cards. 

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Ghosty

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6 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

It’s obviously not the actual inside of the PS5, but it’s from an actual Future Publishing magazine issue that just came out.

 

I wonder why it's not an actual picture of the inside with all the components fitted? Kind of strange. Same happened with the Series X.

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5 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

 

I wonder why it's not an actual picture of the inside with all the components fitted? Kind of strange. Same happened with the Series X.


I guess Sony haven’t released that information yet. It makes me wonder if Future have an embargoed but text-only press release describing the new system, and Future wanted a mag out with that stuff before the big reveal.

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layten

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10 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

I don't think I've even seen a high end PC graphics card running any games @ 8k. Perhaps maybe in a couple of years we might?

Nvidia showed off 8k 60fps gameplay in their 3000 series launch earlier this week. So later this month. :hat: 

 

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5R7

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11 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

I don't think I've even seen a high end PC graphics card running any games @ 8k. Perhaps maybe in a couple of years we might?

DF showed it 3 years ago:-

 

and, nvidia showed it 3 days ago!

 

 

 

Also, the Touryst on PC uses super sampling AA, so if you run that at 4k, with AA, its running at 8k lol

 

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Lying Cat

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22 minutes ago, Uncle Mike said:

That thumbnail guy's face is so offputting that I've just burned all my computers.

 

Probably would have been a better move to just burn his face. I mean, now you have to live with the knowledge that it's still out there. Watching you from a distance. Peeking through your windows.

 

Peering at you behind tented fingers at the end of your bed.

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