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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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I think OP here has a point though.
The PS 5 pro has been said be roughly equivalent to a 7700 XT with a AMD ryzen 7 3700X and going through PC part picker, using the cheapest parts it's 936 dollars which is more than the PS5 pro 699 price.
Also, that console buyer isn't the user that's going to build a computer themselves either so they'd have to buy a pre built, which would be over 1K. Plus the console person only wants to game and isn't going to be all that interested in the additional features, there's is a slightly different use case for consoles.
It's worth notice few things; the GPU isn't "a part", GPU is "THE" part. You can't find a viable second hand market for ps5 hardware, but you can find second hand market for 3generations of nvidia RTX (20x0, 30x0, 40x0), a AMD, to get all around the ps5 potential.
You can buy an inexpensive PC with integrated GPU and play indie and AAA titles in very low specs.
Ps5 doesn't come with AAA graphics until... well, you don't spent AAA prices for each game. How much for 10 AAA games? 70€x10= 700€
On PC isn't just cheaper: all your games in your library gets the push up to the additional TFLOPS (PS5 require you to buy PS5 games in order to be tailored around the PS5, not ps4). With emulation ROMS (legal if you have the original copy), you get the push up in graphics for all the games you already bought: running that old ps1 game at 8k 60fps? Can't see why not.
The different use case is why I don't even really care about consoles, I just don't want one at all.
Okay.