Not trying to sell you on PC, but the times are different now. It isn't like yesteryear when you had to do a ton of tinkering and troubleshooting. For the most part it is plug and play as the times have changed. It seems console is a better fit for your use case, but you can't discount the fact those early 2000 days are gone now and thank God it is.
I also saw you reacted to one of my earlier comments in this thread about the building a solid PC without having to spend everything you own. Here is an example right here:
They say the PS5 GPU is equivalent to the RTX 2070. If that's the case, the GPU in this PC partpicker is 5% off that mark. And you'll match it if you overclock it. See, you can get in there and not break your pockets, friend.
hey thanks for being level headed and not insulting me for not being part of your "master race" lol. that was refreshing to read.
yeah man, the closer it gets to actual plug and play, the more interested i will be. hell if i could buy a PC for $500 that never has issues playing games (no more issues than a console, at the least), and i didnt have to tweak or tinker with settings, and i didnt have to replace parts in 3 years to play some newer game, then id consider it even more. i just have zero faith in any of that, unfortunately.
ive been playing my xbox one for almost 10 years now (and PS4 for that matter, im not a fan boy of any kind), and ive never had to tinker with any settings or parts or anything.
ever. you cant put a price on that.
thats what i need a PC to do for me to jump in.
id literally need it to be a $500 PC tower or box of some kind that was so simple you literally plugged it in, turned it on, downloaded the games you want, and played. no settings, no tinkering, no nothing. but again, by that point its basically a console. so i dont see the difference, except that i will get better graphics and performance, and maybe it will have other capabilities like wireless VR, and half life alyx and other things (actually VR is a pretty big deal for me, so maybe that will be what makes me switch to PC one day).
i dunno man, i just havent seen a box/tower that accessible, cheap and easy enough for me to jump in. when i see something really catch on, then i will pay attention and maybe switch over to PC. but until then, its consoles for me.
Equivalent to a 2070 may sound like you're trying to downplay the PS5, but you're absolutely not.
My very first GPU was a GTX 760 (and even then, it was only the 2GB VRAM variant, not even the 4GB) I bought in 2014, and throughout the entire PS4/Xbox One generation, I could play games at 1080p with settings and framerates that outmatched those consoles (sometimes significantly so).
So, to put that in perspective... The average/middle card of the GeForce 700 series could match (or exceed) the console performance that whole generation. And to this very day, I still own that GTX 760, which still works wonderfully and I have in a backup PC.
see, this is what i dont want. talking about graphics cards and gpu's and rams or whatever. i dont have any interest in tinkering with this mess.
i think part of the hobby for some PC gamers
is the tinkering. maybe that is whats separating PC and console players?