DarkhoIlow said:
Oh look it's Microsoft again spewing their PR bullshit trying to convince us that the Xbone is a next gen console. It's more like a current gen in terms of specs.
When you think about it..if you would buy parts for a PC for 500$ you would buy a more powerful rig than what their console can offer.
Right, you know enough to look at the GHz and memory size. You are wrong though a $500 will perform nothing like the Xbone, at the moment there are too many API layers and inefficiencies in bandwidth between components in PCs to get that kind of performance from matching hardware.
PCs only outperform consoles through brute force, by massively exceeding them in specs and having the raw horsepower to get the extra software performance. Consoles operate closer to the metal and have simpler interfaces by sharing graphics and system memory instead of having graphics memory and system memory which causes bandwidth bottlenecks, again this is only solved by brute force and ensuring your hardware has the largest available potential bandwidth.
PC horsepower = cash
Just a graphics card to match next gen hardware will set you back around half the cost of the Xbone and two-thirds the cost of a PS4, factor in a CPU which is about the same and then at least the price of an XBone on a case, PSU, RAM, Mainboard and the little bits and pieces needed for a nice rig. This does not include peripherals or monitors which is a huge chunk of cash for someone setting up a PC for the first time.
Me? I am bypassing all of that and going for overkill and getting a GTX 780 and ensuring I will be ready for anything the next gen can throw at me.
