Potentially offer the same experience. You guys are vastly overestimating how many PC gamers actually rock 2080TIs or Threadrippers, or even PCs with specs comparable to current mid-gen refreshes. The number total is quite low.
PC high-end gamer market might have
some common shared points with console gaming market, but they're pretty widely different. In fact I'd actually consider them more different than they are similar, there just simply isn't that much crossover in their demographics (actually, it's probably better to say their demographics don't have that much incentive or reasons to crossover their reasoning in going high-end PC for
some games and consoles for
other games if in fact they happen to have both).
So Sony and MS can proclaim all they want how they made their mid-gen refreshes to keep players from fleeing to PCs but we all know at the end of the day what it was really about: more money. They made systems so relatively underpowered in 2013 compared to even mid-tier PC cards and chips of the time that they practically had no choice but to do mid-gen refreshes. But even then, they were never in any real danger of having an ecosystem collapse. Otherwise the Pro and X would be selling at way higher ratios relative their respective base consoles than they actually do.
Simply put, someone who wants a high-end gaming PC to play their games on, isn't even considering an XSX and very likely isn't considering a PS5, either. They're in their own space. And magnitudes
more gamers just want to play on reasonably capable consoles because of the absolute convenience consoles bring over PC, even if it means they miss out on the pinnacle top of performance and control/flexibility/options PC gaming brings.
"Laugh", he said. Yeah, uh huh.
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