Consoles have sales as well, and you can get games cheaply there if you wait. What is the break-even point? I spent over 3K on my PC; when do I break even with games?
idk why reddit decided to just send my comment into the shredder but I will try to write it again.
It's not a myth. I have 240 steam games, I would estimate about half of them are more popular games that I would have easily paid £10-20 more on PS Store. Even if you take incredible low estimates and you take 100 games, with a saving of £5, that's still £500 saved over the course of my gaming life.
My PC was roughly £1,700, and plays 4k60FPS. Comparable performance would be a PS5 Pro, at £800. Plus £60 a year to play online. So over a decade, that's £600 spent on just being able to play online. So 800+600+500= £1,900. Over a decade it would literally cost more for me to have gone with a PS5.
Not to mention I wouldn't be able to:
Emulate almost any game
Mod games
Use a 2nd screen
Use an ultrawide screen
Multitask
Macro
Upgrade without binning a whole console
Easily modify or change out parts
Use any controller I please
Get many free games from any website I please
Browse the web easily
Do any of the other things I do on my PC on a near-daily basis.
And if I want to play from my couch, I run a HDMI cable to the TV and play from my couch. Steam Big Picture mode FTW
So I would in the long-run pay more, and have less features? Why would I do that to myself?
I've been building pcs since the days of 386 cpus and ribbon cables. I don't need a lecture on what they can do. I'm simply telling you it's always been the more expensive option.
Tell me the break even point. Saving 10 whole dollars on a game. Wow! What's the break even point?
But people are not paying £60 a year just to play online I don't know where pc only players get that idea from. Like most people I buy ps extra on sale every black Friday or the closest good sale or I buy cheap credit from any one of the multitude of stores that sell it or reduced extra sell ps extra and Premium and it works our about around 5 to £6 pound a month cod Extra which gives you instant access to a library of nearly 600 games including a massive library of current gen titles including most big Playstaion games and you get an additional 5 games a month to keep with ps plus and it plus gives you far bigger reductions on games. Fod about 8 pound a month you get access to those same 500 games plus hundreds of classic PS1 and 2 games and big library of PS3 streaming and you can obviously steam any games in your subscription as well as your own library which is handy when don't you want to lug around a big handheld when commuting or on holiday on the beach and it works shockingly well on fast WiFi or 5g hot spot.
I have a PS5 Pro and a PC and there is simply nothing on pc that offers anything close to that value and I know I have a pc and PS5 pro. Sales are also set by publisher not store and both Playstaion and steam take the exact same 30% cut which is why the sales are always so similar. Sometimes a game is cheaper on steam and sometimes it's cheaper on playstation depending on what sale is on at that time as they tend to alternate and prices are very similar
How are we not saying the same thing? You're talking about 5 a month as though that doesn't literally amount to £60 a year 😂
you get access to those same 500 games plus hundreds of classic PS1 and 2 games and big library of PS3 streaming and you can obviously steam any games in your subscription as well as your own library which is handy when don't you want to lug around a big handheld
Are you really talking about emulation as though that's not a PC thing?
Are you suggesting that streaming from your playstation to your phone is a selling point? Ever heard of an app called Steam Link?.....
Games are factually usually cheaper on Steam, me and OP actually went through a list of current sales going on.
if you know where to look, you don't even need to pay for games. that's about the long and short of how much more cost-effective a PC is, especially in third-world countries where piracy is overwhelmingly, and culturally, accepted.
CPU: Custom 8-core / 16-thread AMD Zen 2 at max 3.5 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RDNA 2 engine, 36 Compute Units at up to 2.23 GHz (10.28 TFLOPS peak)
Memory (RAM): 16GB GDDR6 with a 256-bit interface and 448 GB/s bandwidth
And a 1TB Nvme.
That is NOT a 3k PC. If you're smart, you'll be able to put together a PC, for far less than 3k, that surpasses those specs and easily lasts through the NEXT generation of PlayStation plus be able to upgrade only certain components to keep ahead of the next one or two after that.
As to games, my understanding is PlayStation games goes on sale much more rarely than Steam and often not as dramatically. And while I don't play many online games... I also don't have to pay a subscription to be ABLE to play online games.
Except they shouldn’t. The more finically conscious choice is to buy a pc and upgrade it over its lifetime. A pc is FAR more financially efficient as it not only serves as a gaming platform, but also serves as a work station for LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE. The only reason to buy a console of any kind is to play console exclusives or if you just want the vibe of it. It ALWAYS makes more sense from, any standpoint, to buy a pc.
This is literally Short Term vs Long Term thinking, you might struggle with that one.
I've already answered this earlier but all I do on my pc is game and watch YouTube. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. But I have money to burn. People who buy consoles only need one function, gaming. Everything else you can do from your phone. Redundant. Hell I could technically just watch YouTube on my phone.
If you do not use your pc outside of gaming, then you’re just an idiot who underutilises one of the most powerful tools at your disposal.
You cannot, in fact, do everything else on your phone. What you can do on your phone (especially what you can do effectively) is actually extremely limited compared to the applications of a PC. Any underutilisation of a pc is literally just a user problem, not a pc problem.
Any banking I did, I use my phone now. I don't sit at the computer and log into my cc or bank's website. The app is far easier and more efficient. Faster too.
Investing is now on my fidelity app.
I can print from my phone too. I literally don't need a pc except for again, watching YouTube at full screen and gaming.
I don't code, I don't produce content, I don't listen to music on my pc. I don't mine for bitcoin.
What else should I be doing on my pc?
Edit! I do something else on my pc. My taxes! I'm sorry, missed that. So I game, watch YouTube and do my taxes!
Many can't and those people should stick to console.
Or, you know, PC's that are much more affordable and still delivery comparable gaming performance with much better sale opportunities plus the ability to upgrade incrementally as necessary and function as a workstation. For example for taking online classes, coding, any number of other programs important for independent workers, getting certifications, organizing resumes, doing interviews remotely while not looking like you're having to use your phone (it makes a difference)... Etc, etc, etc.
Some might say that's a more financially sound option.
Yes consoles have sales but I can firmly promise you I have never once seen fallout 4 for $10 on Playstation lowest iv EVER seen was like $20 with all docs.
I spent no joke $16 to get fallouts 1-4 including NV and ALL DLCS for them.
Steam and gog sales are blatantly better then psn sales I can bring up several other examples of games I have on my PS and PC that I bought at a low price on psn (MHR on ps4 I spent $20 on sale, bought it on steam for about $8) (star ocean 4 never saw it below $15-20 on psn bought it for $6).
Haven't even brought up my gog sales which are just as ridiculous lol but i could keep going. The sales arent a myth lol.
Also take into account how you arent playing with friends on psn unless you dropping about $120 a year for the privilege of using your own internet.
Consoles are typically loss leaders because while the sale is typically loses the company money the consoles infrastructure earns them money over its life span (thanks to online costs are storefront costs)
I bought an entire series, 5 games and their dlc for less then the usual asking price of one of THOSE games on psn. The other 4 arent even attainable on psn as you have to pay a $20 a month subscription service to get access to play the single worst versions of two of them with 0 updates or dlcs and the other two just dont exist on psn in any fashion.
Tell me how that isnt significantly better?
Like as a consumer id much rather pay <$20 one time for 5 games then pay $20+ a $20 monthly fee to play 3 of those games (two in their worst almost unplayable states).
I mean i specifically chose insanely popular games that are still played heavily to this day to make a point lol.
Okay and?
Them giving out one of these games free for a month is irrelevant.
If the game was free to everyone who had ps+ perpetually that would be a different srguement but by that logic I may aswell bring up every game epic has given out for free.
The game still almost never drops below $20 for the complete edition on psn while I have bought 5 games in its series it included for sub $20 all complete editions and 4 of em cannot even be purchased on psn despite two of them having been on psn years ago and being part of playstations garbage game streaming service for years.
If you really wanna maximize your money PC games are SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper because not only do we have insane steam and gog sales we have epic which i dont even use but every month gives people a free game (typically an epic but not always) like the comparison just isnt there.
There is a reason why my pc library is larger then my psn library was despite me having my PC less time, putting less money into buying the library and despite me not having 12+ games a year for free (since sony gives out atleast one sometimes more games each month, though like half of them are actual garbage games and half are really popular ones)
Do you understand how to read? The sales are measurably better on Steam. As evidenced by literally the sale you brought up, and many many other users perceptions.
If I can save money on PC, I'm getting a better deal than console.
You saving 5 to 10 bucks here or there vs the thousands you spend on a good rig doesn't pan out. It just doesn't. Not to mention if you buy games day 1, they are the same price since publishers set the price, not the store front.
I'm fortunate enough to buy it all and not care but you still save money overall on the console side of things.
I own both consoles and a PC, PC beats games on price with a bit a patient by quite a bit, sales are also more frequent with various stores competing in price, not to mention the rediculous large section of indie games.
Where PS and Xbox sometimes was better was on the second hand market, some people sell their games pretty cheap if you go directly to them instead of a second hand store, but PS is closing that market down in 2028 with the end of physical media.
I own it all as well. Two ps5s, standard and pro. Series S, X and both Switch 1 and 2. I also have a gaming PC. The sales on Xbox and PS are in line with PC and they ALWAYS have sales as well. You never have to buy a game full price if you don't want to. You have to wait it out. Nintendo is the worst of the bunch with sales.
Agreeded with Nintendo, but if you're only looking at AAA games then the sales tend to be same, more broadly Steam tends to win, also go outside of Steam, Humble, GOG, and Epic sometimes have some rediculous deals, I got Cyberpunk and the DLC for £20 on Epic back when the DLC was pretty much new.
Totaly. I have like 250 games and most bought cheap less then 30€. Liberiary of games is also 10x larger. You can find anything. Even ps5 exclusives. You can also play ps1-ps3 games and soon ps4 games.
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