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FullMetalArthur t1_j3l5vvi wrote

Sorry to dissapoint you, but no.

Your rant sounds more emotionally charged with opinions rather than facts.

80dls a year is cheap. Amd you get around 30+ games with that. A new consoles costs 500 dls.

A gaming PC costs 1000dls, just to barely mimic a ps5 in power (4k-60fps). Buying a new gpu for instance will double that cost easily.

Games in the Playstation store go on sale very often. X-box has Gamepass.

Both have different pros and cons, but cost is definetely out of the question. PC are definitely more expensive.

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FallenAdvocate t1_j3pw69o wrote

Over black Friday you could build a PC for just over $700 with an rx 5700 and a 6700xt, which is significantly more powerful than either of the consoles. Price has increased some to around $750 now though, but still well under $1000 and it is more powerful.

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FullMetalArthur t1_j3riei1 wrote

On black Friday then you could buy a console for 250 dls. I fail to see your point, is still 500dls cheaper. And I am not sure a RX 6700XT can manage 4k at 60 fps

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FallenAdvocate t1_j3rjij3 wrote

For $750 you get a PC much more powerful than a $500 console. You can drop to an older CPU, and an older GPU to match the console power if you want. But yes, I wouldn't run the 6700xt at 4k native resolution, just like the consoles don't run 4k native resolution. But that console could easily play A Plague Tale: Requiem at 60fps, which the new consoles can't do. Same with Gotham Knights.

And going forward when more games on console are locked to 30fps, you would have the option of running those games at 60fps.

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FullMetalArthur t1_j3rn9u4 wrote

Yes. We agree.

Technically you could hunt down components, have really good luck and with some effort you could save a couple hundred to match a console.

But in normal circumstances, a more "default" price would be near 1000. Take into consideration you must know what you are buying, do research, compare benchmarks, check compatibility, know what are you going to use your rig for, etc. With consoles you just buy it.

Surely next year will be even cheaper to build a rig like-new gen.

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No-Ranger-2471 t1_j3o1zxm wrote

you don't need that much to buy a gaming rig i paid 182$ for mine and it runs games amazingly for a good rig you would be spending around $350 to $400 at most

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No-Ranger-2471 t1_j3rben8 wrote

rust, black ops 1, 2, 3 mw2,rocket league, saints row, batman, gta 5/fivem gold rush the game the crew 1 and 2, 7 days to die, skyrim, fallout 4, heavily modded minecraft, custom maps on black ops 3, teardown and many more that i have installed

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No-Ranger-2471 t1_j3rby4i wrote

rust is i have 12 GB of ram yet i still only get about 50 frames but it drops all the time im running all of that on a gtx 950 non ti yet they run pretty damn smooth except rust

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No-Ranger-2471 t1_j3rc07i wrote

so please explain how you need 1000$ for a rig

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FullMetalArthur t1_j3rk8tl wrote

The point was, with 200 dls you could have bought a ps4, and have access to games like God of War and Uncharted, including all the games you listed except the pc exclusives.

In counterpart, you could have bought a Xbox Series S with 300 and have even more games with a HUGE difference in power and performance.

Yes, you got a cheap rig, but the point was to equal the power in cost-effective way to consoles. Which you did not achieve.

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No-Ranger-2471 t1_j3rcj6w wrote

yeah ur capped at 60 fps where pc gets way over 120 you can go higher i have a friend running lower specs than me gets 8000 fps on a game

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No-Ranger-2471 t1_j4nmbjn wrote

thats minecraft lol try big games like warzone or something

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SnooCompliments5519 OP t1_j40fqd4 wrote

No it's logical and correct period grow up kiddo

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FullMetalArthur t1_j41t8zc wrote

None of what you said had any significant impact in price for consoles vs PC.

The fact is that the initial cost or a pc of similar specs as a ps5 / xbox series x is hugely different. You pay half the cost of a PC and even with a subscription, you get 24 (or more) games a year. For the following 5 years, the moment you already spent nearly 1000 dls in PLUS f.e. you have now more than 120 games. So there is little logic in saying consoles are expensive.

If you compare AAA games, these are indeed 10 dollars higher. Which in the long run is not that much, since most lower their price in a few months. Unless you usually buy games on Day 1.

As I mentioned, cost is not one of the pros of a PC. Especially now in which a mid range gpu cost as much as a new gen console.

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