Epilogue
I know this is not a 100% fair comparison since, in Europe, the PS5 Pro goes for 800 euros, while the lower price for a good gaming PC exceeds 1000 euros. However, you should also consider that most games will run better on this PC, meaning they will have higher frames. On top of that, you can do way more with a PC, including work, if you also want to make a living besides gaming.
Considering the PS5 Slim price, which is close to 500 euros/dollars, this is a fantastic price for a capable gaming console, and it is impossible to make a decent PC with this amount. But in Europe, the PS5 Pro is 300 euros more expensive (around 160% more expensive than the PS5 Slim), and this is without a vertical stand, which will set you back another 20 euros. I don’t take into account the optical drive, which is super expensive since you won’t need it unless you have older games on discs, so you will have to buy it to install and play them. Optical drives are way cheaper for PCs for those who still need them.
Undoubtedly, a PC can offer you way more than the PS5 Pro, not only in gaming. However, for me at least, the pure gaming experience is in the PS5 since I only use it for gaming. On the other hand, once I boot the PC, I first have to check emails, work, etc., so gaming is a no-go. It is just a shame that Sony decided to increase the price of the PS5 Pro so much, by almost 160%. Nevertheless, as long as the “standard” PS5 is available and sold at the current price levels, you can always go for that and enjoy gaming.
- More capable than the PS5 Pro
- Easily upgradable (given you have the money)
- You can do way more with it, rather than gaming only
- Easier to repair
- It is still more affordable than a capable gaming PC
- Ideal for users not experienced with PC hardware
- Developers struggle to exploit its hardware fully
- Pure gaming experience (no other distractions like emails, work, etc.)
Additionally, about this Social Credit System which Microshat has fully established last year, Sony & Nintentdo also already finished halfway:
https://www.techopse.com/microsoft-are-fixated-on-hate-speech-with-lopsided-xbox-live-enforcement-strike-system/
https://www.techopse.com/all-digital-microsoft-xbox-refresh-ftc-document-leak-is-laughably-grim/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbrM_etfB0
Orwell’s 1984. Chinese-style Social Credit System.
The publicly given explanations, are the usual bullshat as “for safety”, against “toxicity” bla bla.
The fact that for heavy morally reprehensible actions as cheating, one only gets 1 strike points, but “hatespeech” freaking 4 strikes, alraedy gives away what the actual agendas are:
ESG, CEI, DEI, 1984’s Newspeak, censorship, 24/7 surveillance.
We will silence & censor you, remove you, if you say/do something against our New World Order.
Enjoy the consoles.
Good article.
The article writer mainly focused on the comparison regarding hardware, performance, image quality.
There are obviously dozens of other metrics at play here, which all have far more weight than these metrics. People decide for/against PC/console by those, and thus the buying price itself will be justified (or not).
Here are some other contra against console:
1) It’s a fully closed, walled garden ecosystem. Almost similar to crApple’s ecosystem.
You own nothing here, decide nothing here; you play by the corpos’ (Sony, MS, Nintendo) rules or you are out. Banned.
2) Can’t use the console offline anymore. Mandatory online account registration, or else the console will be a useless piece of shat.
3) Thus since the 2013 console generation all – even disc games – are bound to the consoles hardware ID.
Microsoft i.e. lyingly calls it “Home console” – the user have to create such online account and label his console “Home console”:
As stated it’s a lie. The correct term is DRM.
4) Social Credit System, 1984-style, full censorship, total surveillance and spying on all it’s users, no matter what they do, say, write type with the console or ingame.
Microsoft Xbox already implemtented it last year. Paid and dishonest tech outlets refuse to cover it to this day.
It’s their strike-point system (Social Credit System). You play a game and they monitor whatever you do, say, write etc.
If you did/said something against their TOS, the ongoing ESG, DEI, CEI agendas (which all of them embrace), they will ban you, give you a strike point etc.
Accumulated strike points: They will ban you from all their MS Xbox services. Not only online, but even offline (they save the ban encrypted & unremovable on the device)
In that case the console will be almost useless. You will be able to play offline disc games, that it; not even able to connect online anymore.
5) Games becoming all-digital: Console corpos control all the game digital licence. There is no price competition like seen with PC games and it’s myriad digital front stores and key sellers.
6) Still gave to pay ~ 60 bucks a year to play online. Lol. Shat.
During 6 years that 360 bucks.
There are couple of other big negative points against consoles.
tl;dr the price-performance metric is valid but not even close to being the full truth.
Be smart, play on PC. Throw Mac and consoles in the trash bin where they belong 😉