Just Cause Dev Claims PS4 Will Out-Power Most PCs For Years

[Elate]

Power has never been the consoles' strong point- PCs take that top. Consoles are about the stability of hardware that the game developers can grow accustomed with and concentrate on gameplay, rather than graphics. PCs will forever have better visuals, and consoles greater diversity in games. I don't see that changing for as long as we use the terms Gaming Console and Personal Computer.

Sorry, but consoles can't even claim greater diversity anymore, maybe in the very early days, but the indie market on the PC is booming, there are games to fill every niche. Some leak onto consoles, and some come from console to PC, but frankly the latter are mostly platformers.

All consoles have is price, they're cheaper, and you know they can run what you want, and may even like a few of their exclusives, and that is quickly changing as PC hardware gets cheaper, and consoles get more expensive. And even then, with patience, I can emulate all the exclusives I want ON my PC.

I fail to see an argument for consoles beating PCs in any sense. Even when it comes to affordability, that's short term, as the games cost upwards of £40 for new titles, on the PC it's half that for most games.

 

[Nikolaz72]

It's cute of the unwashed console masses to aspire to one day be as great as the glorious PC gaming master race. Really, we serve as an inspiration to them. It keeps them working hard, and I feel like that's doing the world a service in and of itself.

Do you have this image as a high-resolution wallpaper?

Here's the link for the article that has a nice big image. It should also give you enough info to find it on your own if you need a bigger size.

http://kotaku.com/5963127/the-rise-of-the-glorious-master-race-of-pc-gamers

*follows link*
*looks in comments*
*quits internet for the day*

 

[Joccaren]

So I forget one letter in the acronym and you jump on me?

It doesn't matter; for what the PS4 is trying to do, the GDDR5 is better (in my opinion) and that's what matters. Getting I also personally think the GDDR5 is overall more powerful than the DDR3, especially in relations with a system designed to play video games almost exclusively. IE~ the PS4 will stay relevant.

Essentially, your post was useless. But I will edit that post so that people will stop puffing their egos by explaining to me that I'm an idiot for forgetting a single freaking letter.

Its more that you claim GDDR5 is better as the reason people jump on you, as that's not a matter of opinion, it is situational, and in a number of situations patently untrue.

GDDR5 RAM is good for graphics. That's it. So long as your machine has both a CPU and a GPU, you will see advantage in using a mix of DDR3 and GDDR5. That is not an opinion. That is fact. GDDR5 RAM is slower, with greater latency timings, but has a greater bandwidth so it can transport more data to the GPU. Overall the amount of data it can send is greater than DDR3 yes, but the CPU will not accept that data, no matter which model, unless its sent in the smaller packets DDR3 uses, and then GDDR5 is less efficient due to its higher latency.

People don't mind if you say DDR5 instead of GDDR5 so much, most you'll get is a "GDDR5*" at the top of their post if that's the case. Its implying that the PS4 is gaining some imaginary advantage on PCs by using purely GDDR5 RAM, which implies a lack of understanding of the technology and its limitations, which is what people will correct you on. If GDDR5 were better all the time, it would be all that was used in computers. Screw expensive, 3 $1000 graphics cards is what I call expensive yet people will still drop 3K for that, spending a couple of hundred instead of a couple of tens on your RAM is nothing, and I doubt it'd be even that expensive.

Basically, the PS4 is at a DISadvantage for using GDDR5 RAM, even though its primary purpose is playing games [Like most gaming computers, which use DDR3 and GDDR5 mixes conveniently enough]. Using technology that has been around for ages, and using it somewhat incorrectly, is not what I'd say will help it "stay relevant".

 

[Strazdas]

problem is, most gaming PCs already outpower the PS4. or well, i should rather said, no problem, just your dissapointment.

I think he means it will out power "The average PC" for years to come.

dependso n what you count for average PC. if you count that pocket 10" pc that people use to as a notebook then yes. if you only count pcs which is mainly used for gaming, most of them already outpower the PS4 and average in that regatrd wil lcertainly outpower it by the end of the year (when ps 4 is supposedly to be released). sure if you count that pentium 4 that cant run skype you will ahve a low average. but heck, even my work PC can do some serious gaming, and its what, 5 years old.

Do you have this image as a high-resolution wallpaper?

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i use it as my phone background and this raises a lot of questions

 

[Magmarock]

Lol buy devs can be just as dumb as publishers at times.

 

[FilmDude89]

It's cute of the unwashed console masses to aspire to one day be as great as the glorious PC gaming master race. Really, we serve as an inspiration to them. It keeps them working hard, and I feel like that's doing the world a service in and of itself.

Ok.. I'm a filthy console gaming peasant. But that picture is SO AWESOME I nearly crapped myself laughing.
Well done. lol.

 

[Vault101]

I think my PC might be more powerful or just as powerful as the PS4

....soo...yeah...

 

[lostlevel]

I won't even pretend to know computers, but I'm fairly sure even a cheap lump from PC world has at least 8GB. So does that make the PS4 an overly priced PC world knock off?

But...It has social media. I challenge a PC to tackle that!

I see what you did there, The integrated social twaddle is probably what will stop me buying a PS4, I'm tired of integrated like buttons appearing everywhere -myspace although self-obsessed never originally had that problem.

I don't even use my PCs for graphics heavy PC gaming but I expect at least 6gb ram these days and a decent processor but if the consoles are going to mirror PCs I might as well put all my eggs in one adequately cooled basket.