Game exec : 'PS4 will out-power most PCs for years to come' ...

[ImpulsE69]

Once the new consoles come out and the new round of ports come out, people who game on them will upgrade their pcs as necessary. There has been very little reason to upgrade anything for years. It's the same cycle every time.

 

[BD2003]

Yep, I just think the inability of current PCs to keep up with consoles will be a little bit of a shock. There's a lot of bottlenecks that even upcoming PCs will have that the consoles won't. Even if a quad core i5 smokes an 8 core bobcat on paper, games will expect to be able to run 8 concurrent threadspresent. The console CPUs will have direct access to the GDDR5/ESRAM, and they'll have the advantage of running heterogeneous CPU/GPU code without having to deal with moving data back and forth from dedicated CPU/GPUs over PCI-E. Then there's the API losses, the lack of custom hardware that the consoles will have to accelerate stuff like video encode/decode, etc

Brute force will win the day in the end, but its going to take quite a bit of it. The consoles are more PC like than ever, but they're still more tightly integrated than current gen PCs.

 

[Mannymal]

I am always happy when consoles are powerful, it means GPU makers have to stay in their game, we all benefit.

 

[Midwayman]

I would stay exclusively with consoles if I have more options for custom setups for controls, like having the option to use mouse and keyboard.

This is the main thing that keeps me away from console games. Having a UI designed around a gamepad just sucks. If they allowed mice for FPS and RTS type games it might be worth giving it a shot. As is it, playing console games feels a bit like trying to game while wearing oven mitts.