‘Wukong’ Game Debut Drives PlayStation 5 to Top of Alibaba Tmall
The release of China’s biggest PC game to date, Black Myth: Wukong, also sparked an unusual buying spree for Sony.’s PlayStation 5.
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Not really... If you play the game maxed...sure. But getting PS5 like performance is easy and cheap on PC.
It seems it is probably going to be a pretty big seller on playstation as well. Hopefully it comes out on xbox sooner rather than later!
China is certainly a growth market for Sony. Games from their China Hero Project could become system sellers there too.
RTX 3060 + Ryzen 5 5600/Core i5 12400 + 16GB RAM. IDK, that seems like a pretty cheap PC to me.
Their China Hero Project up until Black Myth: Wukong didn't really move the needle. Games like F.I.S.T. and Anno are even available on other platforms. I think what really made this game explode was the Chinese propaganda, knowing that this was big budget and based off Journey to the West.
I think it's even been reported that PS5 sales have lagged behind Switch sales in the country. I just can't see official consoles exploding in popularity there.
I haven't played the game, but I downloaded the performance test or whatever, and it ran at 100+ fps on medium-high settings with DLSS and frame-gen on a 3050.
If I'm not wrong, given the gimped nature of the consoles officially available on the mainland, most consoles that are sold there come in through Hong Kong and from overseas imports (I think this is actually one theory as to why PS5 software sales are so atrocious in Japan this gen)
When can we expect the DF video on getting PS5 performance for PC? Will be interesting to see for this game.
How much is it please? Google answered with 700-1200 dollars builds, so I am not sure.
Card + CPU alone cost as much as a digital PS5.
That might not be that cheap for people who just want to play the new hot game.
I could not buy a PC with those specs for similar price as PS5. Not even close. It is not cheap imo.
Yeah, might be 'cheap' for a gaming PC, but compared to the cost of a console, it is still much more expensive. No to mention that consoles usually have a much hassle free user experience.
Wow did not know that you can buy a PC that performs like a PS5 at the same price. I guess economies of scale did not work out in this case for Sony.
Depends on the rest of the components, the mentioned ones (cpu,gpu,mem) will cost you 400€ in Germany. So you can add ~200€ on top for the rest of the hardware if you go cheap.
100%.
Especially for newcomers. PC is way more user-friendly than ever but against a "take it out of the box, plug it in, make an account, download/insert the game and start" it's still a huge difference. A prebuild PC + pre installed windows would help but that makes it even more expensive.
I dunno, I set it to ON in the game lol. Might have been with FSR, not DLSS.
Watched some videos online and it's even running pretty decently on a ROG Ally lol
Now imagine what that cost in Chinese Yuan. Yeah no, if a person doesn't have a PC already buying a PS5 is the cheapest way of playing Black Myth Wukong.
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According to PC Part Picker, that cpu and gpu alone, with a $10 discount, is $396.
Add a mobo, power supply...and yeah. That's not cheap. I guess you could get a cheap case... Maybe cheap compared to other PC's.
One would be better off getting a console if price is an issue.
Compared to a $399 PS5 it's not cheap at all. And in most parts of the world not named USA and a few european countries the difference is even more severe. And I'm not even taking into account the other components like the mobo, power supply, etc.
PC gaming isn't cheap, it's cheap in the perspective of a PC build. Console will always be the better deal as its subsidized through software purchases.
Eh, they've already released multiple projects under the Hero project and it hasn't done much.
PS5 is slightly benefiting from the mega hype from this game, but the small increase indicates it's not much to move the needle.
The western-centric viewpoint is showing its face again.
The console might be cheap compared to PC parts in the US
This is not the case in many parts of the world.
Yes, and i'm in Europe and PC parts aren't cheap either. At all. Maybe the US get better deals, but even with those better prices, it's still more expensive then buying a console.
Even the Rog Ally i own cost me way more than a PS5 or a Switch
even if considering something cheap iis a matter of perspective, the difference in price of a capable PC vs a console is still there and is objective
Is it the case in China? By all accounts the PC version of this game is outselling the console version multiple times over. Typically you'd expect the cheaper and more hassle free console to be driving sales. Though at least when I was growing up, it was easier to ask my parents for money for a nice PC that I could study with compared to a games console that only had one function. That may play into it.
The poster said you can have ps5 like performance for cheap. Not surprising that price and not whether it runs on lower specced machines became part of the convo
Your 400 500 dollar box isn't the equivalent of 500 dollars in many parts of the world. And PC parts in china and other developing countries are cheaper than in the west.
or do you think the massive PC player base in those countries are buying PC's which cost half a year of their salaries if they would be priced the same as in the west?
Compared to the "really good specs" that the other poster said you needed to play the game. That's the context I read it in 🤷🏾♂️
They never said that though. What's with these responses?
The difference in price when buying the hardware is objetive. Whether gaming in general on consoles is cheaper is what it's a matter of perspective.
