There's a lot of debate and bragging going on with regards to how powerful-or-not the incoming video game systems will be. To me, it's a purely academic question because it's not like video card technology on the PC side will stand still: next year, I'm sure Nvidia will have an "RTX 3000" line, with second generation "RT" cores which are twice as fast, and twenty-plus teraflops of floating point horsepower at the top-end.

Eight-odd months into the eight-odd year lives of these new systems, and we'll be back to the exact situation we're in right now: the IBM PC platform will be vastly more powerful than the video game systems, and those who can simply defer gratification and save up just that little bit of extra money-- even to a minimum wage worker, accumulating another three or four hundred dollars means skipping the beer, weed, and fast food for a few months-- will be much better served just assembling a computer.

The other benefit to a computer is that once you're on "the PC track", you can just keep dropping new video cards in it over the years, while leaving everything else alone. This is especially true if you're smart, and buy into a new CPU platform right when one is released. D is still rocking my original Ryzen 1600 chip, which I handed down to him when I moved up to a brand-new 3700x; paired with the RTX 2060 he got for Christmas, and it's a formidable ray tracing-capable gaming system for not that much money. Because I bought the 1600 on launch week, it's had years' worth of legs.