SteveGrabowski0

6800 is about 20% faster at 1440p than the 6700 xt. I wouldn't pay $209 for that.

IDK, I was getting actual slowdown in Elden Ring at launch. Don't think I could recommend chips that old at all.

I ran a Xeon E3-1231v3 (basically an i7-4790 minus 200 MHz and with ECC memory support) until a couple of years ago and it started bottlenecking even my old GTX 1660 Super pretty significantly in games like Elden Ring and Cyberpunk, even with DDR3-2400. Think it would really hold an RX 6600 back, though AMD drivers have lower DX12 overhead than Nvidia's so are better with lower end cpus.

Used to play the hell out of it way back in alpha like 15 years ago when the game would keep changing so much every update. Was blown away when I found out I could make a working adder with redstone.

God I loved NieR Automata. Right there with Persona 5 for my favorite soundtrack ever in a game and the story was wild.

Have you played the PC port? If so wonder what you think about it.

Super Mario Bros (NES) Shinobi (Arcade) Chrono Trigger (SNES) Zelda A Link to the Past (SNES) Fallout 2 (PC) Half Life 1 (PC) Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne (PS2) Skyrim (PC) Bloodborne (PS4) NieR Automata (PC) Elden Ring (PC)

Makes sense. It's definitely an awesome system and I highly recommend getting Bloodborne with its DLC if you pick one up unless you hate Souls style games. The DLC is a must though, as it has the best bossfights in the game. Maybe the best bossfights in any FromSoft game. The complete edition bundle goes on sale for $17.49 pretty often and I wouldn't be surprised to see it go there again for a spring sale on PSN. https://psprices.com/region-us/game/115727/bloodborne-complete-edition-bundle

I used to run a 1660 Super and it could get frame drops in the Dragon engine Yakuza games like Kiwami 2 at 1080p with a 60 fps target without turning some settings down, so a regular 1660 probably would too. Easier to run games like Yakuza 0 or Yakuza Kiwami wouldn't be a problem though.

A lot of the PS4's best one time exclusives have come to PC. Eg stuff like God of War (2018) Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy Horizon Zero Dawn Horizon Forbidden West (comes next month) Yakuza 0-6 Persona 5 Royal Final Fantasy VII Remake The Last of Us Part 1 The Last of Us Part 2 (already officially confirmed, no release date though AFAIK) Spiderman and Miles Morales Until Dawn (already officially confirmed, no release date though AFAIK) Of course there are a few bangers not on PC Bloodborne Ghost of Tsushima Shadow of the Colossus God of War Ragnarok Ratchet & Clank You have to imagine Ghost of Tsushima and God of War Ragnarok will have to be coming to PC in the next couple of years. Shadow of the Colossus and Ratchet & Clank (2016) are probably doubtful and Bloodborne will sadly never happen. Which sucks because IMO Bloodborne is the single best PS4 game ever made (with the caveat that I'll call Elden Ring a PS5 game, otherwise it's a coin flip IMO). Personally the only use for PS4 I'd find these days is if you can get a PS4 Pro on firmware low enough to hack it to run Bloodborne with the 720p 60fps patch. Otherwise you'd be better off upgrading your gpu, as your i7-4790 should be enough for most of those games. The Last of Us Part 1 Remake will murder a Haswell chip so I'm guessing Part 2 will too but otherwise upgrading your gpu to maybe an RX 6650 XT or RX 6600 will probably offer you a far better experience. Even the PS4 Pro has a gpu more on par with the RX 470, while the PS4 and PS4 Slim have a gpu pretty close but slightly faster than the HD 7850 you list in your system. I ran a slightly slower version of the i7-4790 in the Xeon E3-1231v3 (it's a 4790 minus 200MHz I believe) and it didn't start having trouble keeping up with my old GTX 1660 Super for 1080p60 gaming until Elden Ring. Also I'd recommend AMD over Nvidia for running with a lower end cpu like a 4790, as their DX12 driver overhead is lower. And for DX11 games you have plenty of cpu for that gen so no worry about bottlenecks. Long story short: PS4 is a really cool system with great games but you could just upgrade your gpu to get a better gaming experience. For instance RDR2 is a straight 1080p30 fps on PS4 and it looks good but it was so much better playing on my Xeon E3-1231v3 + GTX 1660 Super at 1080p60 using the Hardware Unboxed recommended settings. In that $100 to $150 range you can get cards like the RTX 2060 Super or the RX 5700 XT or you could spend $190 and get the RX 6600 brand new.

If you buy a PS5 fat new in store it's probably one of the newer models with the same lithography and same power consumption as the slim. The fat comes with a vertical stand while the slim doesn't (so a $30 upcharge). If you want to set the system horizontally I'd probably go slim because the horizontal stand is horrible on fat PS5 and the system wobbles like hell.

With all the rumors of Microsoft considering porting their games to PS5 yeah the XBox sounds dead as hell

The controller is irrelevant; the games are why PS5 is demolishing XBox in sales. None of the hyped XBox exclusives, eg Halo Infinite, Starfield, and Redfall, have been very good while Playstation has had bangers in God of War Ragnarok, Demon's Souls Remake, Spiderman Miles Morales, Spiderman 2, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Horizon Forbidden West, etc.

It's the latter

No one here with a 6700 XT who played the RE games in VR?