No, I get your point. Im just saying I dont entirely agree the performance will be better on consoles. The ps4 played games great but its still limited by hardware no matter what optimizations they have. Like i said i love to play on console, its so easy and straight forward.You are slightly missing my point. I am a software dev by day, gamer by night. So yes, my PC does lots more than be a gaming PC. The 32gb of RAM and hard drives are actually for my software dev more than gaming.
If you put the grand total of my PC together right now, its around 1k. My PS5 cost £450. Total to 1500 for argument sakes. Thats still less than 1 expensive graphics card without all the other parts.
That's not entirely true for recent times. Consoles run for years, the PS4 lasted (and still going for some games) for 7/8 years. And my PS5 will run for another 5-7 years. So my grand total of £900 is easily going to last 14 years over needing to buy a new 1k to 2k graphics card seemingly ever 3-5 years. I think in that time I have replaced my graphics card 3, maybe 4 times. That just my graphics card!
I am by no way a console loving guy but you cannot suggest that consoles are more expensive than a PC, no matter how you spin it. It was on par back in the day (20 years ago) but these days. Consoles are almost always the best way to game, unless you are obsessed with modding like I am. I also prefer First Person Shooters and group games (Discord & Parsec ftw!) on PC, where as I prefer the console for story driven or family games.
I didnt say consoles are more expensive than PCs but also you dont need a 2000$ pc to game. I do think consoles are a great cheap entry into gaming. And even though I agree that $900 will get you gaming for years, can't you also do that with a pc? You dont "need" to replace a 1500$ gpu every year.
I agree with most you said, especially the bang for buck consoles offer, just maybe not the performance difference, that's all.
Price vs performance, yes definitely, we agree there