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      It’s bizarre that you have to pay for online on consoles.

      They are not even hosting the game servers! In some cases the games use P2P so there aren’t even any servers.

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      🤷‍♂️ I rent games and save thousands of thousands of dollars a year. You can also sell discs back for like 75% MSRP very easy on Amazon. Computers are way way more expensive. Digital only is dumb as all fuck.

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            Depends if you do your research and look for the right deals both used and new you could get an decent pc built with around the same performance as current gen consoles for less than used current gen xbox series x also you don’t have to pay up the ass for online subscriptions fees generally it’s upto you and your personal preferences though some people prefer consoles and some people people prefer pcs

            Generally though in my experience computers are always cheaper in the long term and get better support as well not having to pay for online and having storefronts such as gog and epic games which give out free games makes pcs a hell of alot worth it to me

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              Computers aren’t cheaper though. Hell, you can barely even get a decent GPU for the price of an entire console.

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                But I don’t need to buy an entire pc “every generation” I can just buy a new GPU, and a low tier XX60 series or equivalent is always going to be faster than a console.

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                  Except the year the new console is released since they’re being sold at a loss, assuming they’ll make up the difference in game sales.

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                Depends an rtx 2060 costs around £120 nowadays pair this with a cheap sandy bridge ivy bridge quadcore 8gb of ram or 16 if your feeling fancy and a 256gb ssd and 1tb hdd and you got yourself a decent computer

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                  1 year ago

                  Pair a RTX2060 with a 5800X3D and you have a gaming system that no console can compete with for the same price

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                    Not really. An RTX 2060 only has 6GB of VRAM. A PS5 has 16GB of unified memory, so it’s going to potentially have more VRAM to work with.

                    A 2060 isn’t awful, though. That’s what I’ve got in my nearly 4 year old laptop. It can run pretty much everything, although some of the newer games are probably a little too demanding for it to run on the best settings.

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              Nope. I spent $250 last year and played every single new game I wanted. Rentals and reselling is far far more valuable and cheaper. I would have spent well over $1500 in games alone before you even start taking about hardware.

              Digital only is a scam ushered in by valve.

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                If you want to play every new AAA release on release, sure, something like gamepass/ps plus is cheaper. You can also get gamepass on PC fwiw, so it’s not really a good argument for consoles. I usually just wait for games to go on sale for $10-20, plus it gives time for the games to actually get patched and function properly. I’ve also been dumping thousands of hours into the same 3 or 4 games for the last decade, so really I could have spent nothing on PC gaming other than a few hundo on a new GPU a couple years ago.

                And for most people, you need to have a PC anyway. Consoles are not good at doing your taxes or editing documents. So the alternative to a gaming PC isn’t just a console, it’s a console and a weaker PC bundled together. The price difference between a budget laptop and a kickass gaming rig is going to be less than the price of console.

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                $250 can land you one hell of a budget gaming pc pair this with copious amounts of free games from the epic game launcher and no paying for subscriptions and you’ll be saving alot in the long run

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                  And if you’re that stretched for money, you can always pirate games much easier on a PC than a console. Legally grey but morally pirating because you can’t afford is fine.

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                I like when I wait a month and get 25-40% off the release price that was already cheaper than the console release price.

                I like even more when the game ends up being shit and I just don’t buy it at all. I’ve saved so much money because of this it’s actually a bit nuts.