Can PS5 kill the pc gaming industry?

[fireflame]

Found this very neutral title on an article and I have high doubts it could happen. I think by the time PS5 is outmiddle budget computers will already be way more powerful by a margin.The price of the console would also rocket and I don't know if people would be ready to pay 800 for a console.

https://www.ccn.com/playstation-5-has-the-potential-to-kill-the-pc-gaming-industry/

There is a lot of speculation in the article but I thought it could be interesting to debate the idea, if anything to explain why it seems unlikely.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

lol

(no it's not happening, as you say. someone speculates something will die every time a new console cycle comes around and they're always wrong)

 

[SuikerBrood]

I'm not entirely sure why they would be able to do that.

 

[Deleted member 4976]

What? Lol

 

[ProstatePuncher]

Can't wait for this rigmarole to pick up until it releases and PC stays as strong as ever.

 

[Nabs]

yes

 

[Heromanz]

Yes
No
Maybe

 

[SMD]

.

 

[Deleted member 33382]

No. PS6 maybe. If not. PS7.

 

[Heromanz]

Where and how and why did you find this article?

 

[Jadax]

Lol no. It's not only about the hardware. Steam (just an example, other platform lovers don't jump on me) is one of the biggest reasons PC gaming is a thing.

Also, many people use their PCs for other stuff too, things which a console cannot replace currently (e.g. work).

 

[Dylan]

Not unless the PS5 happens to be a laptop with upgradeable components.

Edit: Holy shit that article has so many gold nuggets. It's as if the author has never experienced a console generation shift before.

 

[SturokBGD]

This question comes up every generation, I've been hearing it for about 30 years now. The answer is always no.

 

[Akronis]

hahahahahaha

 

[Ionic]

No. PS6 maybe. If not. PS7.

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Nah, PS9 or PS10.

 

[Kewlmyc]

This place is funny sometimes.

 

[Calverz]

No.

Only microsoft or sega can. Sorry

 

[stryke]

I thought it could be interesting to debate the idea

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you thought wrong

 

[Jaded Alyx]

What is there to even debate/discuss really?

 

[Deleted member 8196]

Sony's PlayStation 5 is expected to be more powerful than some of the graphics cards currently on offer and could make PC gaming obsolete.

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[Dark Cloud]

Another pro Sony article. *yawns*

 

[--R]

Lmao.

 

[Rickenslacker]

let's say ps5 kills the pc gaming industry

then amd and nvidia lose the brunt of their purpose for GPU rnd, meaning no gpu for a new console

which would kill the console industry

 

[Castia]

Fucking hell what a shit article that is.

The graphics card is better than some pc graphics cards so PC=dead?

Somebody got paid for writing that article.

 

[Strike]

lol no

 

[fireflame]

Where and how and why did you find this article?

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Someone link it on a console discord, I guess it is the question that always comes back, and since Sony produces currently the most powerful console people like to speculate on PS5.

 

[Madjoki]

PS5 is just locked down PC anyways, So yes, as in, PS5 will self-destruct. That makes sense...

 

[Chivalry]

Lmao no

 

[wild_one]

PC is a moving target, whereas any PS generation is a fixed target. It will never stay ahead.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

since Sony produces currently the most powerful console

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Huh?

 

[BasilZero]

By the time the PS5 is released, it'll already have outdated CPU/GPU so no.

I guess the article writer didnt consider the fact that technology in regards to computers overall improves yearly..not every 7-10 years like consoles.

 

[StayMe7o]

it did already thats why epic is coming to save it

 

[Castia]

let's say ps5 kills the pc gaming industry

then amd and nvidia lose the brunt of their purpose for GPU rnd, meaning no gpu for a new console

which would kill the console industry

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Which in turn would kill today's youths because no gaming=suicide

We fucked.

 

[Hate]

But consoles nowadays are PCs.

Suicide?

 

[JINX]

 

[Deleted member 5725]

Lmao. Just as ridiculous as to say that console gaming is going to die.

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

no

 

[Smurf]

Yes
No
Maybe

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I don't know

 

[Guaraná]

Yeah... Sure.

 

[chrisypoo]

yes

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Nah, definitely not. PC gaming will remain as healthy as ever year after year, just as confirmation bias oriented click bait journalism will.

 

[Deleted member 46948]

There's this old journalist saying that if a headline has question in it, the answer is usually "no".

 

[Vitamin_B_Complex]

I bet this thread is gonna go over well.

My two cents, I bet a bunch of people will see the appeal of a 500€ 10tf machine without hassle and get one until PC parts become cheaper in a way that you can outperform consoles cheaply. Current gen has really skewed views since it was outdated tech out of the gate but ryzen 2 and rdna 2 are much stronger than AMDs 2012 production line. So yeah, I bet people won't be able to max out next gen exclusive games easily. (But cross gen titles will make the transition for mid range pc gamers easier. In two years, every pc might need an nvme pcie4 to play modern games.)

 

[Hektor]

This article, like many console gamers, works under the completely misguided assumption that PC Gaming is only about hardware specs

 

[OnionPowder]

Will this walled garden where you have to do what Sony tells you destroy an ENTIRE industry that has multiple uses outside of gaming, is used to make games and has the more powerful hardware?

Sure jan

 

[No_Face]

Obviously not. But if It's made well it could win back some people who switched to PC. And that's it.

What is it with new generations and these ludicrous opinion pieces that plop up all over the web, propagating scenarios the authors must know will never happen?

 

[Guaraná]

and since Sony produces currently the most powerful console

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What?

 

[ProstatePuncher]

I think I'd go insane if I was relegated to playing just console games. Can't mod the hardware (well, you can but its extremely limiting), can't mod the games (again, there's an extremely limited amount that let you, so its very not worth it), much less variety in games, no emulation without hacks that render platform features useless, etc etc etc.

Just countless reasons that PC gamers play on PC which these kinds of articles absolutely skip by on because they consider games hardware to be just for playing games on, no further user input necessary.

 

[Linus815]

PC2 will reign supreme

 

[Barnabas Reynolds]

It's just common sense that PC will always be better if you want more power and more options. And the difference may be even more noticeable this coming generation than it is the current one, as I don't expect PS5/Xbox Two to do much in terms of RT. At best, console RT will still be a ways off from what something like the 2080 can do, never mind the 2080 Ti and upcoming 7nm cards.

 

[Gakidou]

So does it have like, an ungated global mod scene, quality games at any price range, a choice of operating systems and interchangeable hardware, native development tools and the ability for anyone to just go on the internet and download quality freeware games from decades of indie development history?