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Way to miss the point.
Console is dominating AAA gaming by a huge margin, PC can't touch £400 plug and play console like for like on PC.
Or a 2070 super for £150, stick it to any PC with Ryzen 2 and above. You cannot beat PC gaming even if you're on a tight budget if you're slightly savvy.
If you're slightly savvy, that 2070's 8Gb is already struggling@1080p never mind higher.
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Granted I haven't owned a PS5, but my PS4 Pro always had game updates it wanted to do when I was thinking of playing.
Are you convinced all those sales are normal gamers? The rtx longer up starts from the 2000 series and we recall what happened not that long ago.
That's not been the case in years. In my experience Steam is better at just pick up and play. Everything updates in the background while you are doing other things. While consoles only update when you turn on so you often have to wait ages before you can play. Last time I switched on a console it took two hours of updates before I could get into game. Hardly pick up and play.
That's not been the case for years, my PS5 (and PS4 before that) download updates every night whilst in "rest mode".
I was not aware of that. 2 or 3 years ago a relative was showing me a console game they turned it on, first the OS insisted on updating automatically and rebooting then the game decided it needed a large 1GB+ update before it would even run. There was multiple updates and reboots hardly plug and play. Even if it does update over night now that's no advantage over Steam on a PC. We click the game and play. No waiting as everything updates in the background on PC. I stand by in saying its not an advantaged consoles have anymore. Long gone are the days of manually seeking out the latest patch, manually downloading it then manually applying it on PC.
Having both PC and console offers the best of both worlds, currently looking forward to FF rebirth in a couple of months while PC only players will probably be waiting 2 years for a unoptimised stutter fest.
Over 46m PS5s and 25m Xbox X/S but let’s not forget that that RTX cards arrived in September 2018 while PS5/Xbox didn’t arrive till Nov 2020, the consoles would have all gone to gamers while RTX GPUs would be split between gamers, miners and those buying for work purposes.
Steam has 171m monthly active users and 35m concurrent users on a Sunday. The console numbers you quote are insignificant. MS has managed to sell 25m Xbox series consoles total while Steam has 35m+ PC gamers online at the same time on a Sunday. Truly pathetic numbers for consoles while gaming keeps on growing. Add to that huge pc games that are not on steam like League of legends, Valorant, Fortnite, WOW etc and you end up with an enormous userbase.
Is demand actually growing though?
Exactly this, skyrocketing cost to entry on used PC parts alone is now higher than console nevermind buying new PC parts.
Demand isn't growing though and was reported that GPU sales are at there lowest point for 20 years, Nvidia's gaming revenue is less than half of what it was a couple of years ago and thats with most the cards costing over double the MSRP from the previous gen when you look at the die sizes used. take a 4080 for example with an MSRP of $1200 while using a smaller die than a 3060ti and 16gb VRAM now costing less than 8gb did in 2021, Nvidia would have sold a 3060ti die and VRAM to board partners for less than $400 but you can bet that board partners are now paying significantly more for the 4080 die and VRAM, probably closer to $900.
