@bronze it really depends on the games you're playing. I have no doubt that a pc from 2014 would run doom eternal or ghostrunner flawlessly. Once we start talking about shit like cyberpunk or halo infinite though, of course you can still technically play them, but it's not gonna be that smooth of an experience. Low settings, sub 60fps, etc.

As someone who owns a mid range build from 2016 I can safely say that it is starting to see its fair share of problems. Cyberpunk and MW2 did not agree with it very well (1060 6gb and i5 6600k). I just hope this dude at least has an SSD installed lol.

I've got a mid-low end system that's got parts just better than a ps4 from 2015 as well, and that thing is completely obsolete at this point. PSO2NGS stutters to high hell, Cyberpunk needs to be played at 30fps in like 480p and min settings and has a litany of extra graphical bugs, even monster hunter world was not a very smooth experience. Even when rise of the tomb raider came out I was playing at 900p 30fps on it. So it depends on how good your system was for the time too.