I'm starting to feel that 4k will never take off on PC. In all honesty it's been in the waters for a long time. We are two years into 4K Tech and the PC has lost its graphical crown to the PS4 Pro and the upcoming Scorpio console is making it harder for PC to catch up, this is due to a number of reasons.



Screens

Have you see the price of 32" 4K monitors? absolutely fucking insane, they cost more than their TV counterparts. Some may argue you can get cheaper 24" 4k panels however these run at lower refresh rates or have limited feature sets that PC gamers require. and the stats back it up, less than 0.5% of the PC Steam gaming community have 4k displays, it's quite clear they are either waiting for cheaper displays or waiting for the displays to get better.





Not enough VRAM

If you look at the picture above most PC gamers are still on 1GB, this is nowhere near enough to run games at 4k resolution. in fact the only recommended GPU's for 4K gaming are either a TITAN X or 1080, both of these cards run into hundreds for 45fps or so performance.



No support for HDR

at this time there is no real support for HDR for games or support from AMD or Nvidia, add the fact the hardware is not even outer there for gamers who want to use monitors, maybe next it might change.



PC is not about cutting edge graphic / high end resolutions s anymore.

The PC platform is not about cutting edge graphics anymore, I can barely recall a PC only title that pushed the platform. The market is catered towards mid-semi pro market who prefer streaming games and playing with friends, they don't need the greatest and latest to play games.







Overall it comes down to cost and the PC platform is not cutting it any more, if you want to play at 4k resolutions with all the perks then the PS4 pro is the best choice. The market for high end graphics and resolutions on PC seems to be waning Which is a shame, during the 7th generation of gaming if you want to play above 720p you needed a PC, but with the 8th gen it's now cheaper to play 4k on a console than it is on PC which can barely do 1440p.