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.
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.
You could have a petabyte of VRam it won’t make up for the fact that consoles have to use less powerful chips due to their form factor and can’t cool appropriately.
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.
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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Computers aren’t cheaper though. Hell, you can barely even get a decent GPU for the price of an entire console.
Got my rx6600 for 250 cad (180usd) and it ran every game I threw at it at medium-high
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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Pair a RTX2060 with a 5800X3D and you have a gaming system that no console can compete with for the same price
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.
You could have a petabyte of VRam it won’t make up for the fact that consoles have to use less powerful chips due to their form factor and can’t cool appropriately.
It’s straight up dumb to make the argument that an Nvidia RTX 2060 is more capable than the custom GPU in a PS5.
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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.
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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.
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.