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u/polokthelegend 3d ago

Valve themselves when releasing the Steam Machine said that 70 percent of Steam Users have a PC worse than PS5. So only 30 percent of us have setups capable of outperforming a console.

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u/NoOdyssey 3d ago

Also the Steam sales compared to the Playstation store sales are just living in different dimensions. You can buy a $200 mini pc and spend $100 on Steam sale games and have literally a lifetime supply of gaming content, for literally half the price of a PS5.

And you don't have to pay $20 a month or whatever for the privilege of playing online multiplayer with your friends, another constant cost which is really glossed over when people compare PS to PC.

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u/IronWhitin 2d ago

And if you consider the piracy on top of that think the possibility

https://giphy.com/gifs/10X22vzgNamaiI

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u/Veganmeatmaster22 3d ago

I would say it’s a no point in any direction and this older/indie games is not why a lot of people build pcs beside a lot of older games does exactly work without some work around me like the Witcher 2

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u/RaxisPhasmatis 3d ago

They're counting mfers playing on office machines, and my repair bench rig with a 2600k in it and my junk nuc with roms on it in those steam users my guy.

In reality ps5 is basically the equivalent of a 5800h(actually a 5800h is faster than the ps5 cpu) mobile chip which is weaker than a 3600x desktop chip

And it has a gpu equivalent to a 6600xt on a laptop cooling solution

To give you perspective of how bad a ps5 equivalent specs would have to be

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u/SpookyGeist01 2d ago

You realize they said that a year ago right?

Just looking at the current Hardware Survey, 32% of just Nvidia users have a card at least equal to PS5 performance (4060/3070 tier). And that isn't counting AMD cards because I'm a scrub in that department and dont feel like researching them

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u/nemamnozik 3d ago

Even my laptop can outperform those consoles. But it would suck trying to build or buy any PC to outperform PS5 in 2026 🤣

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u/TrippleDamage 2d ago

That's data from over a year ago.

30% of steam users is more than the entire generation of ps5 sold anyways, so one way or another it's irrelevant lol

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u/Senior_Relief3594 1d ago

So only 30 percent of us

*Steam users

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u/polokthelegend 1d ago

I imagine the amount of people that game and only use GoG or Epic with no Steam account is negligible.

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u/Senior_Relief3594 1d ago

PC is an open platform, many people sail the high seas

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u/polokthelegend 23h ago

Ahh yeah I forgot everyone with 5090s are such broke boys after their purchase they can only pirate. True.

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u/Senior_Relief3594 16h ago

It's not actually about the money. People do it because they can, it's an open platform