What’s there so much “next gen” about PS5 and Xbox Series X that current PC cannot deliver ?

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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.

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