I don't now about the 3080 but in my country the 2080 TI costs as much as 7 XBoxes. I'm a die-hard PC gamer and it will probably always be my platform of choice, but it's not because of $3,000 GPUs.
It will be interesting to see how Google stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now type services effect console and PC gaming in the future. With the GeForce Now service you can use top of the line graphics processor ie can get 4k with rtx in games that support it. With Stadia your console will update and keep pace with the new graphics processors instead of falling behind in a few years.
This is always the same because console graphics hardware has, for many generations, been based on desktop graphics hardware, and not the top of the line stuff either which is the premise of this article.
Also a lot of people want or need a desktop anyway, so the cost of that gaming rig isn't really the ticket price, it's the extra cost of it over an otherwise adequate desktop system. If the premium of an average gaming rig is say $500 for a CPU upgrade and decent GPU, over what that person was probably going to get anyway, well that's price competitive with the PS 5.
The current price of those high end cards is hardly a major issue, even most hardcore gamers cant afford them, but in 3 years, in the middle of the PS 5 life cycle, they'll be much more affordable.
It's title is likely of course. The PC has always been the winner of console wars. Again and again there are media articles declaring it dead, and then you look at the numbers and see that the PC gaming market in fact moved a ton of games [0], and a bunch of PCs. It's no accident that it gets hard to find peripherals and components that are not gaming branded.
The hardware advice given in the article is completely wrong. Things will not get better with new APUs - you will still need a gpu to play with good settings. And if you still need a gpu, like the article suggests, you don't need an APU at all. Things are great right now for gaming systems (and PC systems in general) because of how cheap and how strong the Ryzen 5 3600 is, and that there are a bunch of cheap to not overly expensive gpus: GTX 1650 Super/Radeon RX 5500, GTX 1660 Super, Radeon RX 5600, Radeon RX 5700 XT. All of these are excellent value at their price point, all of these are capable of playing modern games, even the two first and cheap series (sub $200).
Game Pass however is indeed a very nice thing for gaming. Also offers like HumbleBundle, also their HumbleBundle Trove. I don't think it has ever been cheaper to get a great and big game library (or at least access to one). Add to that the competition between Steam and Epic, leading to Epic throwing free games around (today the excellent new Total Wars Troy game) and probably motivating Steam to continue with their sales approach.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 31.0 ms ] threadAlso a lot of people want or need a desktop anyway, so the cost of that gaming rig isn't really the ticket price, it's the extra cost of it over an otherwise adequate desktop system. If the premium of an average gaming rig is say $500 for a CPU upgrade and decent GPU, over what that person was probably going to get anyway, well that's price competitive with the PS 5.
The current price of those high end cards is hardly a major issue, even most hardcore gamers cant afford them, but in 3 years, in the middle of the PS 5 life cycle, they'll be much more affordable.
It's title is likely of course. The PC has always been the winner of console wars. Again and again there are media articles declaring it dead, and then you look at the numbers and see that the PC gaming market in fact moved a ton of games [0], and a bunch of PCs. It's no accident that it gets hard to find peripherals and components that are not gaming branded.
The hardware advice given in the article is completely wrong. Things will not get better with new APUs - you will still need a gpu to play with good settings. And if you still need a gpu, like the article suggests, you don't need an APU at all. Things are great right now for gaming systems (and PC systems in general) because of how cheap and how strong the Ryzen 5 3600 is, and that there are a bunch of cheap to not overly expensive gpus: GTX 1650 Super/Radeon RX 5500, GTX 1660 Super, Radeon RX 5600, Radeon RX 5700 XT. All of these are excellent value at their price point, all of these are capable of playing modern games, even the two first and cheap series (sub $200).
Game Pass however is indeed a very nice thing for gaming. Also offers like HumbleBundle, also their HumbleBundle Trove. I don't think it has ever been cheaper to get a great and big game library (or at least access to one). Add to that the competition between Steam and Epic, leading to Epic throwing free games around (today the excellent new Total Wars Troy game) and probably motivating Steam to continue with their sales approach.
[0]: Like https://www.statista.com/statistics/662636/worldwide-gaming-...