marurun wrote:Key point: IF you have a decent PC. But a decent PC that can rival the graphical output of a PS5/XBsX is going to cost at least double the console price, and that's not including a monitor (most people don't hook a PC up to their TV.) Also consider that more and more households have laptops these days instead of desktops for their computing needs and you've got a situation where sure, maybe a lot of folks on here would do just as fine with a PC, but a majority of console buyers would not.
I believe the vast majority of any buyer would do just fine with a PC, as you put it. They just either don't want to spend the money, or have not gone down the road of PC gaming, and don't know where to start, or something. But the PC gaming market is huge, and covers 80-90% of games out now. That is my main point, that most consumers would be covered with just getting a PC gaming rig these days. Back 10-20 years ago, there were a lot of games that we not available on PC, but now it is day one PC + Console, and with Sony moving most of their titles over to PC as well, it really doesn't help justifying spending money on one of their consoles.
This is irregardless of cost of equipment, etc. which for a PC is variable with different card cost, specs needed for specific games, etc. I understand that console gaming is simpler in that you just buy the game, and play it with little to no settings/configurations needed (although again, PS4/5 and Xbox consoles now have a lot more options and settings you have to worry about), but the fact is that PC covers so much of the gaming industry output these days, that if you were to actually look at the landscape to decide what to buy, it is hard to go to a console vs. PC.