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> You get all the details hardware is capable of smoothly, nothing more or less. The "smoothly" part is far from guaranteed. cough Dying Light cough > Of course if one pours 5x the amount of money into PC that would be spent on console, there needs to be some inner justification. IIRC PC game sales are far juicier than their console counterparts, especially if you don't live in 1st world countries.
To the extent that's true it kind of works against your argument, doesn't it? I doubt that PC sales look better in India because Indians all have top-of-the-line Alienware rigs.
The top of the line rigs are what you need to play new titles on Ultra settings, sold at $50-60+
With hardware comparable in pricing to what you'd find in a console (or using something that doesn't make much sense to mine with, like a GTX 780Ti) you can easily play a 3-5 year-old game at 1/2 to 1/4 of it's original price, which might even be reduced further by -50% to -90% during a Steam sale.