Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months agoMy brother in christ, the GTX1660 is a mid/low tier card from 5ish years ago. It also precedes and is inferior to the GPU in a PS5 by a loooooong shot.
I’m struggling to believe it can’t run games well. I play multiplayer games regularly with someone who has a mobile 1650. A GTX960 can run literally all modern stuff with settings turned down, incl. Cyberpunk. Is a PS4 packing this much punch today? Not close.
It obviously isn’t like it was 10yrs ago but its very much still cheaper in the long run if you don’t mind that a 5yr old GPU can’t play things at max settings anymore.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My point exactly. This particular rig was built the year the PS5 came out. It was the current generation at the time and it cost twice as much as the PS5 despite having a GPU that was, in your words “inferior to the GPU in a PS5 by a looooooooong shot”.
You’re literally comparing your 2070 to the PS5 saying it’s “just as powerful” as a PS5 despite the fact that the cost of the 2070 alone is the exact same price as the entire ps5. Including the controller.
Despite my 1660 TI rig’s cost being twice that of a PS5, the 1660 as you mentioned struggles to play modern games unless the graphics are turned way, way, down and even then you’re often times shit out of luck. My PS5 that is the same age packs one hell of a punch still and plays any new game that comes out with fantastic graphics and a solid 60fps.
The PC is a great platform if you have fuck you money and have $2000 for a GPU alone. That’ll get you a machine that lasts. But the “pandemic/bitcoin” era never ended. Prices have come down, but the days of affordability and value are gone and aren’t coming back.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
That explains it. It was a bad time to buy both pcs and consoles. If you are talking MSRP, sure, but the PS5 was heavily inflated at that time too and sometimes still is. That’s if you were lucky to be able to even buy the thing. Consoles also tend to be much more cost effective vs PCs at launch, this is probably the crux of the issue here.
Even then I still can’t find any console in my country for cheaper than a comparable PC, and the PC will last longer than a console generation. I put this and the fact I’ll need a PC anyway when doing my cost analysis. I also factor in game cost, and PSN, and such.
As I said I acknowledge its not as cheap as before, but so do pretty much all hardware now, and maybe this is different in the US, but you don’t need a 2k GPU, period. A fraction of that will get you console level performance.
But lets rewind a bit, If a 960 can run TLOU and hogwarts legacy, a 1660 should very much still run any game you throw at it, even at reduced settings. What kind of problems do you have with games not running? Did a new, very heavy game came out that I’m not aware of?
Maybe its a simple thing you can easily fix and be able to use it?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes the crux of the issue is that it’s currently a bad time to buy PCs and a great time to buy consoles.
I think your issue is that you’re more than a little out of touch with reality. You can’t even get a 2070 for $200 or less, how would you get something better lmao.
A 960 only satisfies the minimum requirements for Hogwarts Legacy. It can literally barely run the game at all. The way to fix the performance of a 1660 ti is to replace it with a better card, that will cost hundreds of dollars. Or I can just buy the same games in the PS5 that will run them flawlessly and continue to do so for a number of years with the money I already spent. Once again it’s a no brainer.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I’m exemplifying an old card (960) that run much newer games well because you just didn’t elaborate how your 1660 is so bad. I don’t see how any game woudn’t run on it that soon.
And cards are not that expensive anymore. At least not here. A sub-$200 card can definetly be had that supercedes a 2070.