WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.359 So, in November of 2013, we released this video. It did a great job of 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:11.599 covering the differences in image quality between consoles and PCs at the 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:13.920 time, but it's 2015 and the landscape 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:18.000 has changed a fair bit. Traditionally, consoles will increase in image quality 00:00:15.920 --> 00:00:22.320 over time as developers get more comfortable with the platform by 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:27.519 learning what it can and actually cannot do. But at the same time, the cost of PC 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:32.160 parts relative to their performance is always going down. So, back then, the 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:37.520 PS4 looked like a really compelling gaming box with the Xbox One being 00:00:34.559 --> 00:00:42.480 larger, slower, and pointing a camera at you at all times. But some of those 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:46.800 things have changed. So, has the answer changed? 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And last but not least is the Thrift Machine 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:39.920 4000, which is the combination of the best parts of our used machines from the 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:44.799 Scrapyard Warrior series, which you should definitely watch if you haven't 00:01:41.759 --> 00:01:47.040 already. Seriously, middleclick this 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:51.600 now, pause this video so you don't have two audio tracks running. Go watch that 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:55.200 one and then come back to this one. I'll wait. In the forum thread linked below 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:59.439 this video, you'll be able to see download links for all the raw footage 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.920 taken from these machines. So, you can actually see what it actually looked 00:02:01.759 --> 00:02:09.280 like instead of seeing it after YouTube has kind of messed with it. Starting 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:13.200 with the low-end PC, its pros are largely based around it being cheap. Uh 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:19.680 whether or not you get Windows or not, you're probably going to be somewhere around $400 $500. And then it's going to 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:22.480 be more functional at that cost than a console. You'll be able to game, of 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:27.840 course, but you'll also be able to stream in both directions. Uh, video 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:32.160 editing, photo editing, web browsing, word editing, basic office 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.000 documentation, all that kind of stuff. Huge amounts of functionality. And if 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:39.440 you want more from it, you can upgrade it in the future. Of course, this is to 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.200 additional cost, but if you need more RAM, if you need a better graphics card, 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:46.959 if you want more storage for your 350 freaking Steam games, you can 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:51.360 accommodate that. You can also pick the settings for all of those games, which 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:54.640 is actually really nice. With a console, you're locked into whatever they think 00:02:53.280 --> 00:03:01.440 is good. You're not going to be able to change your resolution or your frame rate or your quality settings in the 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:05.280 mass majority of cases. Whereas on a computer, you'd be able to change 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:08.879 everything in a mass majority of cases, which is actually quite fantastic. And 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:14.319 you can decide if you want more performance in terms of FPS or if you 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:17.360 want more uh nice looking images in 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:19.840 terms of resolution or quality settings. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:25.360 Also, accessories are potentially a lot cheaper, but this is where we bridge the 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:28.239 gap to cons because accessories for a PC 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:33.440 can also be quite a bit more expensive. Although for the low-end PC, this is 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.720 still mostly a pro. It's now moving to 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:38.720 cons. It's a PC, but it's not that great 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:44.159 of a PC. You're probably not going to want to do a ton of like surround gaming 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:49.599 or anything like that on here, but that's not a huge deal. There are issues 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:54.239 with things like longevity. It's a low-end PC, and there's some 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:59.360 low-end components in here, like super sketchy power supplies and other things 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:04.159 that may kind of fail down the road. There's also no console exclusives. And 00:04:01.519 --> 00:04:09.760 while this is a pro that you have PC exclusives as well, um I don't know, 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:13.680 it's it's also a con that you don't get to play the console ones. Of course, 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:19.680 with the used PC, the pros are that it's insanely cheap. With the cheap PC, we 00:04:16.479 --> 00:04:21.440 saw a very low $400 to $500 price point. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:27.680 With used PC, you're going to be able to easily get a computer for 400 or less at 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:32.080 a very high level of performance. very comparable with the low-end PC or even 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:37.040 better in some cases. You can get a lot of these parts if you're thrifty enough 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:41.360 and willing to wait possibly for free even uh old recycled computers, your 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:44.880 your mom's old computer or your friend's old computer or just anyone who's able 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:49.440 to drop down some parts. You can take anything from it that's valuable. Maybe 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:53.040 some extra RAM or or just the power supply or a hard drive or something. If 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:56.880 you zombie apart some computers, you can save a lot of money there. Um, and you 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:01.120 might even be able to find a free operating system in that process if you 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:05.600 find a hard drive that just happens to come with one, which is kind of awesome 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:09.600 because then there's additional savings there as well. And if some people are 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:13.280 going to point out that the parts might fail, well, if your hard drive fails, 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:16.880 stuff like SteamCloud is going to be able to preserve your save games, which 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:23.360 is actually quite fantastic. A lot of these uh kind of like Origin and Steam 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:26.320 and Play and stuff will have cloud save options. So, you don't even really have 00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:30.000 to worry about that failing. And if you're kind of just zombifying a few 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.360 computers, you might have a few extra hard drives laying around. So, your get 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:37.600 up and go time might not even be that long. That being said, it's used 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:40.400 hardware and things might fail. I know I just said that might be okay cuz you 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:44.720 might be able to swap things in and out, but there's the very high chance that 00:05:42.479 --> 00:05:50.800 you won't have a spare part for whatever just failed. And if it's a hard drive, I 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:54.240 did just say that you might have cloud save data, but you probably won't have a 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:57.360 backup of other things. You might be able to have multiple hard drives, but 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:01.120 it's very likely when you lose a hard drive is if it's not in a proper RAID or 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:06.560 if you don't have a proper scheduled backup or both, you're very likely going 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:11.039 to be losing data, which is not cool. The OS might even be pirated. You don't 00:06:09.440 --> 00:06:15.840 necessarily know unless you're getting it from a very repeatable source, and 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:18.479 that's another sketchy thing. Stuff like 00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:23.039 the power supply in the low-end PC was a little sketchy, but you might have all 00:06:20.479 --> 00:06:29.120 sketchy parts in your used PC. It's just a risk. The pros of high-end PCs is that 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:33.520 they're crazy freaking blazing fast. You'll be able to get great image 00:06:31.039 --> 00:06:38.479 quality in any game that you play. Um, great anti-aliasing detailing levels, 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:43.039 great uh high-end video editing or high-end content creation of any kind 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:48.160 realistically. uh surround gaming with three monitors for like sick setups with 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:54.240 racing or flying games or even high demand VR where you might need uh 90 FPS 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:58.080 to go along with your 90 Hz headset and in very high quality as well so it's 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:01.919 very immersive. That's really hard to do and you might be able to do that with a 00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:06.319 high-end PC. You can also do stuff like streaming to things like NVIDIA Shields 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:10.080 or possibly Steam Link down the line. Although you might or might not need a 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:15.919 high-end PC for that. We'll have to see. The cons of this at the same time though 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:19.680 is that while its performance is badass, 00:07:15.919 --> 00:07:22.560 its cost is really not great. It's going 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:27.039 to be super crazy expensive. And while you have the nice form factor of the 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:30.960 PlayStation 4 and the not quite as nice form factor of the Xbox One, they're 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:36.800 both relatively small. And a very high-end PC, well, not necessarily, it's 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:39.520 probably going to be very large. A lot of people that are building high-end PCs 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:44.720 are building them in full towers or midtowers which are relatively really 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:49.520 big compared to a PlayStation 4. Next up is Xbox One or Xbone for the people like 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:53.599 saying it that way. It has a better camera solution than the other console. 00:07:51.440 --> 00:07:56.960 It's it's connect is actually fairly powerful although some people might 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:01.759 found it annoying, but we'll talk about that later. Voice control is cool. Voice 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:06.960 control is a modern way of interacting with devices and the Xbox One has it for 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:11.520 a ton of different reasons. and cloud servers for a better gaming experience. 00:08:09.440 --> 00:08:16.400 Uh, is that a thing yet? Either way, it's a it's a benefit for now. It's also 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:20.720 a flexible entertainment device. You can watch TV and sports and stuff through 00:08:19.039 --> 00:08:27.919 it. Maybe a little bit weird, maybe not something you're looking for, but it is a benefit of the device. Cons, however, 00:08:25.520 --> 00:08:31.280 are where the hell is the performance increase from the Microsoft cloud 00:08:29.440 --> 00:08:35.279 servers? I just brought this up as a pro, but we don't really see it as much 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:40.159 as it was kind of toted around when they were talking about it. Also, voice 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:43.919 control. Another thing I just brought up as a pro doesn't really work that well. 00:08:42.719 --> 00:08:48.800 The amount of times that people have been trolled by someone shouting Xbox 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:52.880 off is insane. I wonder how many Xboxes I just turned off. Uh, it just it's a 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:57.279 little janky right now. Voice control isn't really where it needs to be in in 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:02.480 general, especially not for a solution like this. Crazy weird resolutions are 00:08:59.920 --> 00:09:06.880 not great. Something like 792p for Watchd Dogs is just really weird and is 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:12.080 going to make it look not super awesome in the end. And in terms of performance, 00:09:09.760 --> 00:09:17.200 it's just worse than a PS4. If you're comparing directly console to console, 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:19.600 it's not as powerful as a PS4. And with 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:24.880 all consoles, all modern consoles other than I guess Wii U, it requires a 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:29.600 monthly payment for online freaking access. the PlayStation 4. More games 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:34.080 are going to run at 1080p than the Xbox One. It doesn't have a giant power brick 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:37.839 like the Xbox One does, which is actually kind of nice. Just a direct 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:43.440 cable from the wall. It also has very low standby power. The while running 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.880 performance power might not be super great, but your console is going to be 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:50.080 sitting in standby more often than not while you're at work or school or 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:53.920 whatever. So, it's standby power is actually quite important. It also 00:09:52.160 --> 00:09:58.880 performs better in general. I know I brought up the 1080p thing, but general 00:09:55.839 --> 00:10:02.080 performance is better than an Xbox One, 00:09:58.880 --> 00:10:04.560 and this is fairly opinionated, but it's 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:08.080 very attractive housing. It looks really good. The Xbox One is kind of clunky, 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:12.880 and yeah, it might look like certain home theater things, but the PlayStation 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:15.920 4 looks modern. The angles look really sharp. It just looks really good 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:20.720 overall. I'm not going to get into controller comparisons here because 00:10:18.160 --> 00:10:24.800 that's extremely preference. Um, but anyways, moving on to cons. The 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:30.240 PlayStation 4 also lacks additional functionality again compared to the Xbox 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:34.320 One. It isn't able to do as many kind of random small things that the Xbox One 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:37.920 can do. It doesn't have the nice kind of TV mode if that's something you're 00:10:35.839 --> 00:10:41.040 looking for. The camera isn't as highly functioning. It doesn't have the same 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:45.440 voice control kind of stuff. It's missing a lot of those things. And 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:52.079 you're also required, just like the Xbox One, to pay monthly for online access. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:56.000 Very annoying. Honestly, the visual fidelity on all platforms was quite 00:10:54.560 --> 00:11:00.240 good, and it was actually a little hard to tell between a high-end PC and an 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:03.839 Xbox One. You could tell, but you had to look pretty closely. What do you guys 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:07.600 think? Be sure to check out that footage in the video description down below on 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:11.920 the forum, where you can download the more high bit rate files instead of the 00:11:10.079 --> 00:11:15.600 YouTube compression crap, which is probably what you saw throughout this 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:20.480 video. developers seem to be kind of harnessing these new consoles much 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:22.800 better, but again, it's a lot easier to 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:27.360 build a very low-end, very affordable machine which can beat out the consoles 00:11:24.880 --> 00:11:32.000 now, which is kind of nice for PC guys as well. 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