If i am not wrong the GFX cards ,CPU ,RAM etc every thing (even 3 year old) outperform the so called next gen consoles in each and every department. So what’s so much next gen about it. Why the unreal engine5 demo is being taken as something revolutionary ..can’t it be run on PCs ? Apart from making these powerful machine available to more audiences (as compare to PC with those specs ) at a reasonable price (which yet needed to be seen) i dont see any thing so much next gen about it. What i am missing.
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They are the next generation **of consoles**. A decent spec PC can already do what the next gen consoles can do. They might have a few technical advantages over PC here and there, but for the most part a high spec PC will outperform them.
It’s irrelevant to the term “next gen” that PC can already do all of that. It doesn’t refer to PCs because they don’t have generations in the same way consoles do.
However it will affect PC games because it raises the bar. Most AAA games come out on console, so they have to be designed with the current generation’s limitations in mind. They can have better graphics and framerates on PC, but the fundamental design of the game has to work on consoles too. So next gen consoles are also a good thing for PC gamers, because it means developers can now start making better use of a PC’s capabilities.
For example developers will be able make a game that depends on having an SSD for streaming data. They know that all PS5 and Xbox Series X owners will have one, and they can reasonably assume that the majority of their target market of PC gamers will also have one. Before they couldn’t do that because PS4/XB1 don’t have SSDs.
It is much easier to get better performance even with the low specs of the consoles because devs can optimise their game specifically for the hardware in the console, where as with pc you have a wide range of hardware to support. That said, based on previous generations, their is usually about a 6 month window where consoles have an edge before pc overtakes them again.
Video game consoles ≠ PC. That’s why. PC is gaming isn’t widely available. Or appealing to the masses. Buy $2,000 worth of parts, and assemble, or just buy an expensive, even though it could be say.. 3 years outdated, PC off the bat. That doesn’t even set you up yet to play games. You have to decide on a launcher, which you’ve already lost most casual gamers just thinking about that. Download your games, then you gotta learn wasd and mouse, unless you have a controller. What if the drivers don’t download correctly? What if you have to manually map your controls?
To ELY5, what’s next gen about the new line of consoles is it brings benchmark gaming to systems meant just to game. Not big, expensive, super-dooers, something you turn on and play, it looks good, plays good, anyone can pick it up and play any given game. The world can live mediocre, we did it with vhs/betamax, DVD/Blu-ray.
A high end PC will always be years ahead of whatever new consoles offer, but said high end PC will be many times more expensive.
To get the same hardware you have in consoles usually its at least 30-40% more expensive if you want to replicate it in a PC (when the consoles release).
That’s the biggest advantage and disadvantage of consoles, they offer really good hardware (usually) for a really good price (again, usually), but if you want the absolute high end when it comes to technological advancements you pretty much have to buy a PC.
The disadvantage of consoles is of course that they are pretty much frozen in time, an Xbox one bought in 2013 is still the same as it was back then, it can’t be upgraded in any meaningful way.
Literally nothing. That’s how the console market works. They are just standardized, lower quality PCs.
This time they are adding “revolutionary SSD technology”. My PC in 2012 had the same “revolutionary technology”.
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