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Steam Deck price raised by $240-$300
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I used to tell people that bideo vames were a cheap hobby because after one or two new generations hardware became super affordable
I mean, it's still affordable if you're not playing new stuff. There are tons of computers/devices around that can natively play or emulate thousands of good, older games. It's more of an issue that the "gaming community" is filled with shallow trend-chasers who pressure and denigrate other people to spend insane amounts of money on the hobby before they're allowed to have an opinion or receive any sort of attention.
honestly even new stuff runs fine on older hardware. The days of games like Crysis having extremely bad optimization are behind us, pretty much everything that comes out now has pretty good compatability.
source: I still have no trouble playing new major releases on my mid range pc from 5 years ago
My computer is 7 years old and I would still call it newish lol. To build a comparable one now would cost more than it did at the time.
It's pretty hard to find second hand PCs that are in working order + not cockroach infested biohazards. There's a market for ex corporate laptops but most have awful thermal characteristics and integrated GPUs and wouldn't be suitable for much gaming beyond dwarf fortress/true roguelikes/emulation up to like the DS probably skipping some PS2 games.
Maybe in more populous places there are better used markets. People atm are trying to sell 5 year old hardware more than it was at the time.
Yeah I'm actually about to sell my desktop just because I barely use it and need the money and its probably worth more than it was when I bought it now. I have a laptop (a 2nd hand corpo fleet one i got for cheap funnily enough) and will just use that. Not a big gamer anymore. Maybe play a game once a month tops.
I don't play games released after October 7th. Don't ask why.
Edit: revising that to games after October 20th. Don't ask why.
Edit2: further revising that to games after September 26th 2024. Don't ask why.
Why?
tbf from like 2007 to 2020 you could build a $600 PC and it would be good for gaming for at least 5 years, and on the console side of things they would drop the price by around like $100 every 3 years
I don't know what currency you're using but including peripherals it was still >1k aud iirc. in the early 2000s when I did a lot of building for friends an nvidea like 800 or something (they'd just rolled physx in a generation or 2 prior and games started getting cool) was like 300 aud, you could get a pretty nice core 2 duo for like 120 aud or one of the newish quad cores for like 300 (and play crisis! man that game smashed your CPU) ram was like 30 aud to be a sensible amount all the way from 32 bit to 64 bit systems. MB was ~100 aud, PSU was like 200 aud for a good one but would easily last multiple decades so it gets kinda amortised across builds. Even if a cap blew you could just replace it (omg when mobos started using solid state caps repairs got so much leas impossible <3 science nerds).
Monitors were like 200-1500 aud, keyboards 100-400, speakers were expensive before the glory of fossi amps and Edifier often like 200-400 if you wanted 2.1 sound. A mic added another 50.
Prices went down a bit, especially GPUs and spinning rust but I don't know if it was ever that cheap unless you discount all peripherals. I'd usually tell people to beg, borrow, or steal some second hand peripherals and upgrade slowly. Same as hhds (used to cost a mint)