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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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[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months 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.