Not if you play it right. I sold my 4090 for higher price than the MSRP price I bought it for.
a CPU upgrade ( at 4k ) is not needed every 2 years or so. and even a 5800x3d processor that is like 4 or 5 years old by now is way more powerful than PS5 pro cpu ( that thing is a joke why they didn't upgrade it ? )
Really the only very expensive component on a PC is the GPU. rest is manageable.
obviously consoles are just more affordable as front payment compared to PC. but with yearly subs, closed eco system where game prices sometimes more than double than the PC price ( especially older games ), you find your self in the long run starting to creep up to PC prices
PS5 was released in 2020. lets say generation end in 2027 for that console ? that is 7 years of ps subs just to have the ability to play online. 80$ per year x 7 = 560$.. isnt this like higher price than the 4070 gpu ? lol.
Its not wrong, what u saying, but remember, some of us, pc ppl wanna stay at the bleeding edge, meaning we will be buying those "overpriced" 5090, and not at msrp, but at actual real streetprice, likely close to or at 3k usd/euro.
Those 600$ ppl spending on online sub durning duration of whole console gen is nothing in comparision.
Ofc it also means we arent at console lvl performance, res/settings either, we are far above that, we actually get a taste of what ps6 games will feel like, just 3-4 years earlier.
Here vid from march 2017, of maxed 4k native AC:Unity, not saying its exact quality of current gen games but it definitely is a foretaste, huge upgrade vs what console players got to play back then:
Here quick comparision to last gen console ac unity:
We can see right away that "console peasant" downgrade in every possible metric, lowered settings, 900p resolution, and nasty framerates-30fps at times but with dips to around 20 whenever heaps of npcs are on screen ;/