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theginger | 3 months ago

When did a PS5 become a unit of cost? For reference seems to be about 0.002 London buses

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jkingsman|3 months ago

I think it's intended as a comparison of cost when building a gaming-capable computer vs. a console of somewhat equivalent power.

It used to be a general rule of thumb that you could build a computer of roughly equivalent power for the cost of a game console, or a little more — now the memory costs more than the whole console.

AuthAuth|3 months ago

It still is a rule of thumb, you dont need DDR5 for a gaming computer let alone 64gb. A low end am4 cpu + 16gb of DD4 3600 and a decent gpu will beat a ps5 in performance and cost. I dont understand why the headline made this strange comparison.

keyringlight|3 months ago

It doesn't help that GPUs have also generally gone up over the past decade because there's more market for them besides gaming, along with how they benefit from being hugely parallel and the larger you can make them the better, and fabrication costs are shooting up. I think there was a GamersNexus video at the launch of one of the previous GPU generations that noted that there was a move from "more for your money" each generation towards "more for more", i.e. keeping the value roughly static and increasing the amount they charged for a more capable product.

Krutonium|3 months ago

To be fair, if this keeps up, expect the price of a PS5 to skyrocket too.

Yokolos|3 months ago

Give it a month or two and it might be cheaper to get the bus.

zorked|3 months ago

It's a more stable unit than US dollars.

Aurornis|3 months ago

> When did a PS5 become a unit of cost? For reference seems to be about 0.002 London buses

Gaming consoles are something people buy. Any parent or gamer has an idea what they cost.

People do not buy London Buses themself

silisili|3 months ago

Seems like an American thing. We measure distances in football fields and volumes in olympic pools, seems we now measure money in PS5s. It tracks...

hn92726819|3 months ago

Approximately the instant when a single component (RAM) of a comparable product (Gaming PC) became more expensive than the entirety of said product.

I wonder what you'd think if bus tires exploded in price and started costing .25 London busses per tire.

icehawk|3 months ago

Never.

That's a an analogy-- a literary technique the writer is using, to show the correspondence between the price of a specific amount of DDR5 RAM to a fully integrated system, so the reader can follow the conclusions of their article easier.

dts-five|3 months ago

Had me chuckling at that London bus comment.