Why do consoles need significantly less hardware performance to run the same software compared to a PC ?
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They don’t run the same software as PCs. PCs have much more broad operating systems capable of doing much more than a console on a *much* wider range of hardware. Additionally, games that release on consoles and PC are not always the same, most games on PC have graphical settings that can be turned higher to look better than the console version, because they have more headroom on the topend of hardware that consoles don’t have.
It’s like comparing a smartphone to a dumbphone and asking “How come smartphones need better hardware when dumbphones can make phone calls just as well?”
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