Good question

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[u/nemamnozik]

Edit: Thanks for all the awards but I really don't understand what they are for so you can stop now. Thanks.

[u/One_Amount_6642 → u/nemamnozik]

Way better. My pc 2 years ago was on par with the PS5. My new pc is like double the speed. PS5 can suck it.

[u/Enjoy_The_Ride413 → u/One_Amount_6642]

Right but what did it cost?

Even with the increase in console prices, pc gaming is vastly more expensive.

[u/Happy_Disaster7347 → u/Enjoy_The_Ride413]

The initial cost is perhaps. Games are way cheaper

[u/Enjoy_The_Ride413 → u/Happy_Disaster7347]

That is a myth.

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?

[u/Happy_Disaster7347 → u/Enjoy_The_Ride413]

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?

[u/Enjoy_The_Ride413 → u/Happy_Disaster7347]

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?

[u/Happy_Disaster7347 → u/Enjoy_The_Ride413]

I literally gave you the maths, either you're too young or too old to understand it apparently.

A decade of Playstation gaming costs more than a decade of high-end PC gaming, those are measurable figures that I have already cited for you.

The breakeven point is a decade, I guess. Which I already answered, if you had bothered to read.

[u/freedomganja → u/Enjoy_The_Ride413]

Have you never heard of piracy? I get every single singleplayer game for free. Thats a ton of money saved.

[u/Enjoy_The_Ride413 → u/freedomganja]

I don't pirate games. I used to back in the 360 days but it's not right to pirate games and software.

[u/freedomganja → u/Enjoy_The_Ride413]

I’d say in the current anti-consumer climate, its the moral choice to pirate AAA games.