A maxed out PC is going to cost easily 3 to 5 times more and consume 3 to 5 times more electrical energy. But what is interesting and says a lot about the flattening silicon evolution curve is that your game on your monster PC is not going to look or play 3 to 5 times better than on a PS5 Pro console. There is a huge diminishing return now on high end silicon, and that might have an impact on the life cycle duration of console hardware.

Charpentier, the Game Director of Empire of the Ants, does have a point. But it’s nowhere near x3 to x5 times cost. More like in and around ~1.5 and that’s exclude all the other benefits of having a computer.