PS5 and Xbox Series X don’t need to worry about Nvidia RTX 3070
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Nobody says it did or even thinks that. This is just the pathetic cycle of games journalism, the need to scrounge around for topics to write about.
"No, the Nvidia RTX 3080 didn’t just kill the PS5 and Xbox Series X"
"PS5 and Xbox Series X don’t need to worry about Nvidia RTX 3070"
Bruh, choose 3070 or 3080.
Anyway, consoles are never going to get killed. So aren't PCs.
People choose consoles for convenience and money-saving
People choose PC for the customization, experience and the other million options PC brings to the table.
I knew that my PC in 2016 was thrice the price of my PS4 at the time. But I wanted the experience. I wanted to play games at 100+ fps. I wanted to tinker around with my hardware. I wanted to customize my games with mods. I wanted to play competitive games with whatever input I choose. I didn't want the lack of peace of mind that I have paid for the Multiplayer side so I have to make the most out of it.
I will not be getting a PS5, not because it isn't cheap or because it isn't convenient, but the platform does not fulfill what I desire and does not feel like money well spent as a buyer of its previous iteration. It will obviously be worth it to many other people who want to play the games the platform has to offer or people who want the convenience of a sit-down and just play.
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"Nobody says it did or even thinks that. This is just the pathetic cycle of games journalism, the need to scrounge around for topics to write about."
Ah....the counter article to "Forget PS5 and Xbox Series X". How very Forbes of you.
The bottom line in these arguments is how do you want to play games. I've made the argument many times that if you want the living room big TV experience then console is the to go. I certainly would not want to balance a keyboard and mouse on my living room couch. And a console fits nicely into the entertainment center and becomes a more natural component of the living room. And yes, consoles are simply easier. So there is no "killing" anything because of new GPUs. That is just hyperbole.
However....
"My gaming machine has a Ryzen 7 1800X, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and a Radeon RX 590.... "
"So for me to get the most out of all the tech Nvidia has put into its RTX 3000-series, I’d need a new processor, a new motherboard, and likely new RAM. And while I’m there I might as well upgrade the power supply unit. "
Well, if you want to get the "most out of all the tech" then yeah, buy everything new. But it isn't required. The same motherboard that takes the Ryzen 7 1800X will take a Ryzen 7 3000 series as well. That 16GB DDR4 RAM is perfectly fine. The author didn't bother stating what PSU wattage so no idea how he says "might as well upgrade" except to fluff up his argument.
"One thing I would highlight though, is a lot of games are multi-platform titles, developed to cater for the lower common denominator. In the case of the next-generation games consoles, that means the PS5 with its 10.28 teraflops of GPU power.
As such, it may be a while before you get any PC games that will take advantage of the graphical grunt of even a GeForce RTX 3070.."
Nope. It will be in November when I launch Cyberpunk 2077 maxed out with all the ray tracing it will give me. That is a bogus theory regardless unless you want to pretend that PC game visual settings and presets have been limited to what PS4 and Xbox One could handle all gen. Devs started putting ray tracing in games for PC before PS5 or XSX were even given their names. So no idea why devs would suddenly stop beefing up their PC game versions simply because PS5 is 10.2 TF. Makes no sense. There are perfectly valid arguments for consoles vs PC, but these are not them.
I don't know if killing is the right word here. Because as consoles they already have different sector of the market for themselves - at least in the west. The performance and especially the prices of both the 3070 and 3080 might have made some people that were on the fence about upgrading their computers or buying the new consoles, decide for the first.
And then you have the "smaller markets" like Asia - outside Japan. Where those new cards might make the consoles a little less appealing. As the region already have a strong PC centric market and if we go by tradition there will be exclusive and cheaper version cards dedicated to them.
Another market that it will be really interesting to see is Brazil. Sony is currently dominating there. But they ditched local production and regional pricing not that long ago. Meanwhile some leaks of the 3070 and 3080 prices put them for almost half of what people are expecting that Sony will ask for the PS5. So depending on what end up being the true, there might be a bigger push for PC gaming there or Microsoft can get their X360 days crown back.
But coming back to the core markets (US, EU and JP). I don't think these cards will really steal much thunder from the consoles.
it certainly killed the xbox
upgrade your Pc for a lot less then the series x will cost, no buying expensive battery packs/free online and 3x the performance