The problem with that is that analogy is that consoles contain APUs, which can be directly compared to a GPU.
This is the GPU forum, yes, and comparisons between GPUs and APUs are perfectly valid...
once in a while, maybe yes, but not to the exclusion of all other discussion, which is what a couple of members seem to want
A console's perf/£ is therefore relevant when judging GPUs... it means you can't make GPUs ridiculously expensive and not expect a sizeable chunk of your (former) customer base to say "sod that", and leave (for alternative gaming platforms).
Nobody is claiming consoles offer the same experience. But they are an awful lot cheaper than just about any 10 series GPU on the market as of today. As alien as it obviously is to you, some of us decided the cost of PC gaming GPUs makes the whole deal not worth it.
yes, there are lots of things that are cheaper than a PC that you can play games on, vtech sell some "gaming" items for £20, obviously anyone who buys a console for over 10 times that amount is a complete idiot, how dare Sony, microsoft and Nintendo have the gall to charge hundreds of pounds for a kids toy made for playing games!
Yes, way to miss the point (again). PC games do indeed perform and look better if you throw cash at a PC gaming rig! Quelle surprise!
Let me know when a PC costing £350 looks like a PS4 Pro. Heck, you can't even build a gaming PC with legal Windows for £350. When your GPU alone will be £300 to achieve parity (in today's market).
I think its you that is missing the point. This is a PC forum. This is the
GPU section of a PC forum. If you want to compare the performance of a console to an APU please go and do it in the CPU/APU section (where I'm sure you'll be greeted warmly [sic]). The whole point of PC gaming is that its customisable to an extent that is not possible with a console. You COULD build a PC for gaming that is cheaper than a console, yes it would not be as good as a console but you can build a PC for less than a console, play games on it, and pay nothing at all for a whole host of free to play games. OR IF YOU CHOOSE TO you can build a top spec gaming PC and play games not available on console. If you choose to. If you don't choose to, that is fine, however I fail to see how choosing not to grants that person the right to bang on and on and on and on and on about it for thread after thread and page after page, this shouldn't be the forum that makes that acceptable behaviour, any more than a Ferrari forum would put up with people banging on about what great value a fiesta is, or a yacht forum would people talking about dingys, or an SLR forum would about how a £100 phone can also take pictures.
Your comparisons are completely ridiculous to those of us that are PC gamers because a console can't do what my PC can do, so it simply doesn't interest me. You like to play console games and that is great for you, I'm really happy that you've decided you don't want to own a gaming PC because a console does what you want it to at a price you are happy to pay. I'm not really impressed by the strutting about like its the only possible option for everyone, when sales figures completely destroy that as a concept. I'd much rather, on the PC GPU section of a PC forum, discuss new technology and new products with people of a similar interest.
I would much prefer it if GPU's were cheaper. The only thing I can recommend if the current prices are too high is to jump in on release day when prices were actually cheaper, which is what I did. But then based on your "Consoles are £350" rhetoric, you were never going to buy a £600+ GPU anyway, so you'd really rather no one had the option either. Its bizarre. All the data points in the opposite direction to your personal opinion.
If you went in to the OCUK shop and stood behind every customer that came in to ask about a GPU and shouted "consoles are cheaper and do the same thing" they'd chuck you out.
