Quite often the manufacturers of the consoles don’t earn much money on selling their consoles. More often it is the other way around, they lose money. But so they sell much more of the consoles. And with that, they also sell more games and accessories like controllers and so on. With that additional stuff, they earn the money and compensate for the losses by selling the consoles cheap.
PC . Do you mean gaming pc ?. If not , a standard PC is much cheaper than a console.
If you are talking about a gaming PC, yes it is . And PCs do more things than just gaming.
Including accounting , graphic design, programming , and much more.
I use my pc for gaming and Android app development.
Can you do that in your PS4
Besides the whole sell at a loss thing, there’s a lot of benefit to be had designing a piece of hardware to mesh perfectly with a custom OS. On top of that you get to have game designers design their games directly for your OS and hardware. The games also run better on less power because the developers are motivated to create efficient software. As we saw with cyberpunk and a few other less known games, if your game doesn’t run well you don’t have the excuse of “your pc just isn’t good enough to run our game”.
The console is basically a way to get you to buy games/movies/media/subscriptions/etc. I believe Sony and Microsoft lose money on console sales (or break even).
Similar to how a water delivery service works. The base of the water cooler is cheap or free because the money is made on weekly deliveries of the 5 gallon water jugs.
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