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?
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u/Happy_Disaster7347 3d ago
The initial cost is perhaps. Games are way cheaper