Submitted by evergreenforests123 t3_zqiq03 in consoles
I just bought a ps5 and while I haven’t opened it, from seeing gameplay footage on YouTube I’m quite shocked how a $500 console is able to perform better than PCs ever close to that budget range! My PC that I build in 2018 has an rtx 2070 and an i7 9700k, and I’m quite sure it would never reach the performance levels of this device. How did these companies do it?
aSimpleWardrobe t1_j0ycmix wrote
Both Microsoft and Sony sell them at a loss and make up for it through the subscriptions so the hardware is better than you probably think
Not only that, but unlike pc, you only need to design your game for those specs, so its far easier to fully optimize and use the consoles to their fullest (Red Dead 2 from last gen is a good example)
And its often not true 4k, just upscaled, even higher end pcs struggle to do 4k with a nice and stable high fps on intensive games, just like the last point, its often very crafty tricks devs will use to make things seem better than they are, take Witcher 3 for example with the next gen version