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glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Yeah your high end PC from 6 years ago will still run new games, but will your mid-tier laptop from 6 years ago?

I don’t think you can fairly compare the two that way because PCs aren’t built for mass market affordability.

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tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hmm. I'd think that a desktop would probably be most-comparable to a console (well, okay, other than portable consoles).

And the price difference isn't that high these days. It used to be enormous:

Go back to the NES, which came out in 1983:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

Introductory price: ¥14,800 (Japan) US$179 (equivalent to $530 in 2022)

Compare to the IBM PC (which, frankly, lacked a lot of game-friendly hardware) and came out in 1981:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

Introductory price: Starting at US$1,565 (equivalent to $5,040 in 2022)

The Mac came out in 1984:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K

Introductory price: US$2,495 (equivalent to US$7,000 in 2022)

The Apple II in 1977:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II

Introductory price: US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,270 in 2022)

So the NES -- in inflation-adjusted dollars -- about what an Xbox Series X or PS5 cost.

But nobody is spending $5k-$7k on a typical desktop today. And certainly not on one with comparable hardware to the existing consoles.

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