I guess so. But I guess there are people coming at it from a perspective of not being into PC gaming just to be on par or better than console but great for what they personally want. As you guys say though, it's possible those days are just over.
Its late so it could be that, but what days are over exactly?
What I don't really get is people using the new pricing standard for going back to console gaming if they've been on PC. Clearly you can get better than console performance if you want. So why go to console? I'm sure there are plenty of reasons people game on PC beyond that. But I am not really sure about it
That would be weird indeed. Im not seeing it happening either, that pc gamers are going 'back to console gaming', if these are originally console gamers then ye, perhaps. However i dont see the problem, the most popular choices have always been the XX60's class of GPU's, rarely the Titans and XX80's and now XX90's..... Same story for 1000 dollar mainboards and CPU's.
Its the entry/low/mid end that usually matters, and there things still look quite good (no idea about 4060 though price wise). However so far, a 6700/3060 teamed to 16gb, an nvme and a alder lake i3 or better will provide you with atleast console performance levels, mostly better. It wont run into the thousands of dollars, higher than the consoles perhaps, but not that much so. In many EU countries a PS5 is running anywhere between 800 to 900usd new.... thats ballpark the system i mentioned.
PC gaming, though generally viewed as such, isnt so much about outperforming consoles, their namely in a complete different (user) market. Even a 1060 or 2060 user isnt even caring about console performance because its a different market alltogether. Thats why PC and console gaming have co-existed for so many decades now, they arent really competing in that sense.
The new pricing standard can be looked at from a different angle aswell, the entry/console matching GPU's havent changed so much prise-wise, its just that the roof of high-end has become so much higher than before.
Again, as a PC gamer i dont see the consoles as a competitor, again they have co-existed perfectly fine since practically the beginning of gaming and they will untill the death of local-gaming alltogether.
It's a combination of factors, but #stutterstruggle hasn't helped I'd guess. It's one thing if an 'unoptimized' port just meant that for roughly equivalent hardware, you might have to lower the resolution of the PC to be slightly below equivalent console res or just a lower level of reconstruction setting, if that was the only downside to poor ports then big whoop. It's that regardless of what you spend, in some cases you can be getting a decidedly worse experience, and the best case is you wait for a patch - if one ever comes. I can see people seeing these constant poor reviews and think why the hell should I pay more to take this gamble? I've seen plenty of people on other forums who have said "Fuck it, I just get new titles on my PS5 now as I don't want to deal this with this shit".
Also bear in mind that due to crypto we've seen these inflated prices several times over the past 5 years, it's not just the recent wave that's finally ebbed. It's always been there even when it wasn't on wild upswings, helping to always exaggerate the demand a bit. People who periodically check in to see what the cost of building a PC is may just have gotten tired of waiting. We'll see what the door finally being closed (fingers crossed) on GPU mining means in the coming years I guess, in the short term though due just to manufacturing capacity you're likely not going to see any major ASP reductions.
While i generally agree on this post, i think the 'decline of pc gaming' or the dangers of that, its not something that really concerns me. Not much more so than the 'decline of console gaming'. Both are not happening, no both are growing still.
I know right. Everything in EU is more expensive,
everything.
