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[–] TurboToad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why do people keep reposting this shit?

Which console costs 400$?

Which reasonably price optimized PC costs 15k$?

Yes PCs are more expensive than consoles, but they also hold more value, are more versatile and have lower costs for the Games themselves.

To each their own, we're alle gamers.

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[–] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The real reason I'm better than the console plebs is that I still play multiplayer on twenty-year-old games.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I just played CS 1.5 with my colleagues during a break. That shit just never gets old.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

$400 console

The only thing that qualifies is an Xbox series S, even Switch 2 is $450 lmao.

Even funnier when you consider "PC" consoles like Steam Deck or Legion which gives you a even wider access to games, including exclusives thanks to emulation.

Hell Sony and Microsoft gave up on the console exclusive system because PC & Steam demonstrated the expanded market is worth the tradeoff when your console hardware is basically a computer.

That didn't used to be the case even up to the PS4 when the hardware was still targeted for games like high VRAM, but that's no longer the case.

It gets even better with Switch emulation because it was a glorified Android tablet that was already outdated on arrival, meaning you can play Switch games even on your phone thanks to ARM instruction pass-through techniques.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 150 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I miss the days when $500 could build a "console killer"

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 101 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

These days its like 1500. But you still get all the advantages like being able to do whatever you want with it like using productive software to actually do work. Streaming, editing, rendering, 3D modeling or printing, game dev, etc

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 4 days ago (4 children)

You will also most likely still make that difference back over the cycle of one console generation through better game deals and no subscription fees for online play.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Also: INDIE GAMES 🎉✨

Because getting your game published in Sonys or Microsofts store is horrible afaik.

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (9 children)

That was a brief period when consoles were way over priced for the components they had.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 29 points 4 days ago (7 children)

That period repeats every 3-5 years approximatly towards the end of a generation but before the new generation is announced.

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[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Divide PC by 10 and add 300 dollars to console.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Where are you living where you can get a good console for $400?

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[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

For $800 I think you can get a laptop that is more powerful than consoles, with similar GPU power, but you also get all the benefits of PC gaming. You can't even mod most console games, which is reason enough to never buy a console. It's just a way inferior way to game.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The $800 PC will also last longer

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 4 points 3 days ago

I can confirm that I got a laptop a couple years ago for $800 that has a RTX 4060, i7, and 32Gi of RAM. Beats a PS5 on paper, which is supposedly more equivalent to a RTX 2070, though games optimized for PS5 hardware make the difference more marginal.

[–] Daxelman@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

The only people who care about shit like this are the people who don't play video games.

A lot of you don't play video games.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

Don't need to buy a new console every few years.
When getting to slow can upgrade single components.
Cost/performance is basically on par with consoles at the moment.
Completely ignores the fact that consoles are a type of computer and the gaming companies can not sell console + games at +/-0 or they'll go out of business.

The fuck you on about?

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 days ago (10 children)

The consoles are "cheap" because the controllers, games, and subscription services are expensive.

It's far, far, far cheaper to game on a PC in the long run. You can buy a pc capable of playing many games for as little as $300 (gmtek or similar micro pc sporting high performance amd cpu). If you want better graphics, you plug a gpu into that for $260 or so (Radeon 9060).

Steam is crazy cheap. Multiple sales a year, and if you don't like a game you can get a full refund. Free AAA games every week as well from GOG, Epic, and rarely but surely, also Steam.

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 57 points 4 days ago (5 children)

What console sells for 400 bucks?

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Over 7 years, you'd have to pay $560 to play online on a PS5, assuming they don't increase the price again. The cheapest PS5, without the disc drive (which is a bad decision if you like cheap games), costs $500.

You can easily build a PC more powerful than a PS5 for $1060, and that's before you factor in cheaper games.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I'm certain you can build a $15K USD computer, I bet Linus Tech Tips does it regularly, but idk who tf is doing that when an nVidia 3090Ti is only $1080 and is ranked #23 on PassMark.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why are you considering buying a 3090 Ti for $1080??? It's an old card and shouldn't be near that amount when you can get better performance for less money out of a 9070 xt or 5070 ti.

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[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Let's compare a 6 year price without games.

PC gaming

800 gaming PC 200 mid cycle update to GPU 3-5 years in

PS5

500 non-gaming PC because your ps5 isn't a useful alternative 500 ps5 650 ps5 pro 4 years in 720 for PlayStation online basic at 10 per month

1000 vs 2370

Laughing at console gamers spending more than the cost of a basic computer on the privilege of using it online via your own internet which you also pay for

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (5 children)

some $2k beats a console and you get more games, cheaper price, and can do whatever you want with it

so if you're already getting a computer, it just makes sense

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 24 points 4 days ago (12 children)

$400 plus a subscription for the privilege of playing online + some amount of money for a computer anyway

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

I was into the PCMR sub back when you could build a machine that ran better than the current console generation for the same price as the two main consoles. And it's not like consoles perform so above and beyond a PC that there's little difference today; the PC hardware just exploded in price so it costs so much more to make something that runs as good or better than a PS5, which is sold at a loss.

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I can use my PC for other things as well (I’m only using my PC for gaming)

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[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 days ago

What a stupid take

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No one but the once in a blue moon whales are spending 15,000 on a rig. The average rig I build for people is under 1,000 and the setups I see online are usually near there too.

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