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[amigastar]

No they aren't. Cyberpunk, Resident Evil, Alan Wake, Silent Hill are all vastly better looking on a high end PC. Face it, consoles are mid range computers now and don't push the envelope anymore like they used to. Sure, developers design games with consoles in mind, because they'd be stupid not to, but then they turn around and add a bunch of graphical features that would make your console explode.

If cope were a forum post, it would be yours.

Path Tracing is the magic word here. Looks much better on PC as consoles don't usually have it. We'll see with the PS6 how things will turn out.

 

[dgrdsv]

They will offer whatever midrange / high end PC GPUs are offering today (5070-5080), aside from some obvious differences stemming from accessible RAM amounts.
If what you see on PC on this tier now looks "true next gen" to you then you'll get this.
Chances are that the differences won't be that big on average though.

 

[Jam Dingo]

Its just tunnel vision.

When developers start making games to take advantage of a 30GB PS6, just wait and see what happens to everyone with a 16GB PC GPU. Its like they don't understand (or can't accept) that devs make games with consoles in mind, and its such a simple concept its crazy to me, when consoles have power equivalent to whatever PC, then that PC will at best perform slightly worse than said console, the entire floor rises, and their top of the line hardware sudden;y starts performing significantly poorer, and then they now need to go get a new GPU that is x times more powerful than the consoles again to get the kinda performance delta they have been accustomed to.

Rinse and repeat. And all the while this is happening, they conveniently forget how much more expensive their setup is compared to a console.


Exactly, this is why I find all the console PC comparisons ridiculous. While loosely similar in purpose, they have two completely different design directions. I mean, we are talking about an industry where someone can spend 5x what it costs to buy a whole PS5 onone GPU, or spend as much as a PS5 to buy one motherboard, or even a CPU, or RAM.... but somehow, see it fit to compare them. Makes no sense to me whatsoever.

To be honest, I see it as a dead giveaway of some gross insecurity or desperate need for validation. It's like me owning a Lambo but only going to drag races against unmodified Priuses.

That's why I don't bother with PCs anymore even though I love graphics. They're a pain to use, don't get Sony games at release (or at all from now on), and cost like 5x a console just for the GPU. I suppose at least these days with RT you do get a meaningfully better result, but it's nowhere near worth it imo. I'd rather just wait for a PS6.

 

[lastmessiah]

My hope is that the consoles keep doing what they're doing until the Western AAA industry is utterly destroyed and irrelevant, leaving the field open for real talent to come in and make interesting games.

 

[Jam Dingo]

No they aren't. Cyberpunk, Resident Evil, Alan Wake, Silent Hill are all vastly better looking on a high end PC. Face it, consoles are mid range computers now and don't push the envelope anymore like they used to. Sure, developers design games with consoles in mind, because they'd be stupid not to, but then they turn around and add a bunch of graphical features that would make your console explode.

If cope were a forum post, it would be yours.

The thing, other than RER which I haven't played yet, those games aren't even close to the best looking games I've played on a console this generation. That kind of sums up the PC experience to me. You spend all this money and are just left hoping that the games that get the special treatment are the really good looking ones or at least the ones you like. It's maybe 10% of games that are meaningfully enhanced. For the cost it's just a bit of a shit deal imo.

 

[RafterXL]

The thing, other than RER which I haven't played yet, those games aren't even close to the best looking games I've played on a console this generation. That kind of sums up the PC experience to me. You spend all this money and are just left hoping that the games that get the special treatment are the really good looking ones or at least the ones you like. It's maybe 10% of games that are meaningfully enhanced. For the cost it's just a bit of a shit deal imo.

There isn't a single console game that looks better than those four games on PC, not one. Let's hear your magical list of better looking consoles games, this should be hilarious.

 

[Jam Dingo]

There isn't a single console game that looks better than those four games on PC, not one. Let's hear your magical list of better looking consoles games, this should be hilarious.

I didn't say any console game looks as good as any of them maxed on a PC. I said none of them on console are close to the best looking games on console.