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They know there will be a replacement for gtx 1060 and rx570.
408$ with 8$ shipping charge for the case. I have a similar build, i spent a bit less with many old parts reused.
Not bad. You haven't added in a CPU cooler, cause a stock cooler on a 9100F isn't gonna be good enough, but I suppose that's splitting hairs.
Anyway, the PS4 Pro will probably see a price cut once the PS5 launches, so it still won't matter much.
For hundred dollars more, they get a console killer and flexibility of pc platform. there will always be two groups, one which would save 100$ and go with console, and the other group going with PC
$100 more? $100 more than what for starters? A PS5?
Lets say the PS5 costs $500. That gives you a budget of $600. So you need to build a PC that is as fast as a PS5 for $600. I say good luck to you.
Also, the replacement for the 1060 and RX570 already exist. The 1650 Super and 5500XT. Both of these can be had from around $200 for a decent quality AIB. They're not bad, but overpriced for their performance. You could get an RX590 for similar money and get a few more frames. Add in a R3 3300X for about $120 and you have a half decent rig. But then you also need to factor in the case, at least 16GB of reasonably quick DDR4 RAM, a half-decent NVME SSD, and a half-decent B450/550 Mobo. $70 for 16GB of RAM, About $50 for a small NVME m.2 SSD, (Optionally plus another $30 on a 1TB Mass storage HDD). Maybe $100 on B450 mobo. Sure you could optimise that a bit. About $50 for an adequate PSU. So you're looking at around $520 all told. Optimise and lets call it $500
Now this PC would be significantly slower than the PS5 and wayyy slower than an Xbox Series X.
You could upgrade to a 5700 for about $300 for a decent AIB. That brings total cost up to $600. And you're still slower than the PS5.
Upgrade to a 5700 XT for about $350, and you're up to $650, and you're still slower than a PS5.
Upgrade to a base 2080 Super and you're probably a touch faster than the PS5, but the GPU alone would set you back a tasty $700, so you're sitting with a 3300X and 2080S PC build at around $1000.
And you have a huge CPU bottleneck.
If you want to match spec-for-spec, you'd probably need a 4700GE (Renoir APU), which alone would probably be about $300. So your price goes up again to about $1200.
Now, I am more than aware that new CPU's and GPU's are coming from AMD and Nvidia. But if you think you're getting 2080 performance for $200, you're absolutely dreaming. Likelihood is the 3070/6700 will be around PS5 performance, for about $400, maybe 350 or even 300 in a best case scenario.
Zen 3 might bring some great performance uplifts for the CPU side, so maybe you could get an R5 4600 (Vermeer) for about $220 at launch that could maybe match a 4700GE?
But ultimately you're looking at $520 for the CPU and GPU alone next generation at best. Very likely could be $570 or $600+
just for the CPU and GPU. Add in the RAM, NVME M.2 SSD, and all the other stuff you need and you're looking at, at least $1000.
And that's just to match a PS5. The Xbox Series X sits somewhere between a 2080S and 2080 Ti - likely closer to the Ti. Which will probably need a $500 next-gen GPU to match.
My point here is. Consoles are value products. You can't beat a console in terms of value for money at launch with a PC. And I can assure the difference in price between a console and an equivalently performing PC will be much higher than just $100