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No matter how many times they've declared PC gaming dead over the last 30 years, it's kept on kicking (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] emogu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder how much the cost is worth the extra value though. A single PC part (the most important one for gaming) can cost double what an entire console costs. PCs are useful for more than games but is it worth it at that much of a price difference? If you’re not doing heavy video editing or running a dozen VMs, a console + cheap laptop is probably a more sensible setup for most people.

But for me it’s the infinite backwards compatibility and emulation possibilities when the console makers drop the ball in that regard. Got burned pretty hard when none of my massive PS3, 2, or 1 library worked on my PS4. That’s when I started investing in PC gaming. I spent a small fortune for that and it’s hard to say right now if it was worth it, but the peace of mind from knowing that the games I buy for it aren’t going to be useless coasters in 10 years is what made me go this route.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

A single PC part (the most important one for gaming) can cost double what an entire console costs.

You can buy an extremely cheap Optiplex+cheap GPU on eBay and have a machine with more horsepower and AAA gaming capabilities than Xbox Y series and Playstation 6.

PCs are useful for more than games but is it worth it at that much of a price difference?

If you buy a PC with GPU capabilities equiparable to PS5... you can always and for all videogames in your library to run to such level of power. This also appy to emulators.

With a PS5 you can have PS5 only if you keep buying new PS5 game = +70$ for each new videogame.

If you come selling from Xbox to buy into Playstation... it's even worse: you basically lose your whole library.

With PCs you get even more game than any latest console can.

[–] sederx@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Games are literally free. Theres no comparison pc is much cheaper.

Plus you can play those games forever you don't need to rebuy them like an idiot every other new gaming box.