Notice how it's always console gamers using this term?
Are you serious? As a PC Gamer with a PS4 I often feel ashamed about the conduct of my fellow PC gamers. Why this crap means so much to them is beyond me, why they even started this discourse is beyond me, and why they would bring terms like "peasant" and "Master Race" into it is beyond me. Make no mistake, they did, and it's not a good look.
What is always skipped is the difference in architecture between console design and PC design, the fact that PC's are made to do so much is one of their weaknesses in gaming. Thank god both manufacturers created a PCI to CPU bus that bypassed the FSB PLL timing. Now if only Microsoft would allow you to boot into a lightweight version of Windows made just to game, things would be a bit better. I'm also bothered by the pricing claims made by PC Gamers caught up with this nonsense, they leave out so much for various reasons.
As a PC gamer that's been into gaming since the C64 and the 8088, and building them since the days of the 386 and specialized in budget builds, I can say this: You would be very hard pressed to get a budget PC with PS4 specs to run Horizon Zero Dawn the way the PS4 does and have it look that good. Optimization has and will probably continue to be one of the greatest adversaries for PC gaming.
As for the claim on the first page that "millions of PC gamers game with $400 gaming PC's", I call bullshit. I can, however, make you a decent gaming machine for $650 US with everything included, mouse, monitor, controls and OS. That's always been my budget mark, and I don't know another PC gamer personally that games with a machine made for cheaper, unless I built it for them.
Look up old All-In-One PC's on ebay.
On the german ebay you can get them for 60-70€.
Buy a used ~PS4 gpu for 30-40€, invest the rest into memory and you have a PS4< PC for 150€.
Right, just like that, magic. No buyers remorse, your all in one will definitely fit a GPU, there is sooo little hassle in buying used PC's and GPU's, and I'm sure it was well maintained. Magical budget gaming machine. The amount of people saying things like that that actually own a machine like that is very very close to zero.