well, a 2070 could actually do, taking into account bandwidth contention on the consoles' APU.This is only true of legacy games. If a new title releases in 2021, I guarantee there will be more console players than PC players. And if the ports are direct ports of consoles, IE, you need a mobo, cpu, gpu, and hard drive change. It's going to be a long time for the PC population to transition. I have a solid gaming PC, but it's pretty dated compared to what's coming. I'll need to toss everything and redo. And to best the XSX or PS5 it's going to be a costly GPU as well. CDN prices I'm marking around 599/699 max.
Here is an equivalent PC build:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Processor 8 Core/16 Thread reg $388.88 $198.88
ASRock B450M PRO4 Socket AM4 reg $139.99 $114.99*
ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 2080 EVO 8GB 1740 MHz Boost 14000 MHz Memory reg $898.88 $848.88
Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe M.2 Read: 2200MB/s; Write: 2000MB/s Solid State Drive (SA2000M8/1000G) $199.99
I'll skip out on memory, since DDR4 is reusable and I have 24 GB of it, case, OS, Blu ray, audio and cooling.
sub total: $1363
People with an older PC get to pick up on memory too so slap on an additional 100 to get 16 GB of it.
By next year, this PC build won't be 1/2 price.
Yea. I'll take $699 any day.
It's not the death of PC gaming by any means;
as long as there are PCs, there will always be PC gaming.
But just because you have a PC doesn't mean you have to game on it.
Equivalent Mobos can be bought cheaper.
Also, more and more kids are used to computers these days rather than consoles -a 7 years old kid in my hometown for instance, is always asking his mother for a PC, smart-.
In the past, it was different. Consoles were cheap and more like hardware of their own with some benefits -cheaper, more straightforward-. Nowadays consoles are PCs, just a lot worse, 30 fps and input lag are their thing. PCs are well over that nowadays, my current monitor won't accept a 30Hz signal without LFC. If a 30Hz passes through it, it is a dance of frames. And so on and so forth.
The Last of Us 2 developers, Naughty Dog, are looking for a new programmer with DX12 experience who can work with both AMD and nVidia hardware.
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/naug...dx12-vulkan-nvidia-gpus-for-the-last-of-us-2/