• ringwraithfish@startrek.website
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been a PC gamer for 3 decades. Most budget conscious PC gamers I know upgrade individual components as needed. Done this way, you can easily get more for your money than having to buy a new console every cycle.

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      5 months ago

      Yes, but if you don’t have a PC, or one even remotely good enough, that cost is all up front.

      Either way, you end up spending more on PC hardware than console hardware. For the price and for a person that isnt an enthusiast, they really don’t have a need to go to PC, when console does everything they want.

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        5 months ago

        No one is arguing that PCs cost less than consoles. The original point made was that consoles were cheaper than graphics cards alone, which isn’t exactly accurate

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      5 months ago

      With consoles, you also run into the planned obselescense problem. If I bought an Xbox in 2015, I would now be at a point where the industry has decided my console belongs in a trash and I need to buy a new one if I want to play modern games. But with my relatively modest gaming PC I built in 2015, I can still play most modern games if I turn the graphics settings down. I haven’t upgraded a single part in my 2015 build in years and it still works fine for my usage.