The PS4 might change your future PC plans

[jasong]

OP is missing the fact that consoles have 10 year cycles. So yes it might be (almost) on par now, but in 5 years time OP will be sitting with a bunch of games made for 5 year old tech that was medium range even back then.

Well on the surface it looks like the hardware is medium range for today but the graphics that are being pushed out in top tier next gen console games at E3 (i.e. Destiny, The Division, Titanfall, Infamous: Second Son) look ahead of current gen PC games. The optimisations that you'll get out of these consoles in the years ahead like cloud servers, new techniques of extracting better graphics (as Naughty Dog did with Uncharted3), will keep them roughly on par for a good few years. And then you just don't have the hassle of constantly worrying about your next upgrade which is where I'm at now. So I see his point.

PS4 looks like a great piece of tech. It doesn't have anything close to PS3's hardware limitations; it's faster than XBOX One; and it's a good price.