That's just not true. You can make an entire PC for the price of the PS5 Pro. You can get a GPU that is a bit more powerful than a PS5 Pro GPU for ~$300. People normally spend more on PCs though because of the longevity it provides and you can use it for a lot more than just games. Just looking at Steam data, there's a yearly increase of MAUs (their concurrent count just peaked 3 days ago at 37.6M) where Playstation has plateaued.

Time will tell, but I think consoles will fade away, either through lack of appeal or turning into stream boxes as you say. Thanks for the conversation!

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

To top it off, what matters at the end of the day js this - people generally don't care about graphics anymore!

Even if you end up with graphics that are worse than a console, you still have:

an option to upgrade later
options to configure graphics (generally games actually optimize themselves pretty well nowadays)
an open platform to do things the way you want

PS5 Pro makes absolutely no sense to me.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If a PC GPU is only slightly better than a console counterpart, typically its games will run slightly worse - since it loses the benefit of devs spending time optimizing for that profile.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

You can adjust settings on PC, so you can trade off some useless post processing and other settings to push the frame rates way higher than console games, which are generally 60fps (or 120fps in some cases, if you run "performance mode").