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It's official: consoles cost as much as gaming PCs now
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Paying $700 for a locked system is crazy.
It also costs $468.68 over 7 years with the 12 month plan.
So it’s really $1168.68.
I got a great PC for that price!
And instead of no DVD drive, you can put in a DVD RW Drive, Floppy drive, extra SSDs etc.
Can you expand on this, how is a 12 month pkan running for 7 years?
He's talking about PS plus.
The "12 month plan" is meaningfully less expensive than a year of paying monthly, so he's using the cheapest option if you want to play online games (excluding sales, at least).
The average console generation runs for 7-8 years
But then, assuming you’re not sailing the high seas or taking help from fit girls, you’d be spending similar amounts on the same kinds of games for the PC? Or am I mistaken somehow?
Yeah that runs a modified version of freebsd then sony locks and closed source it And if you want to play online you need to pay
You sure? Last I remember the "crazy" quota was paying $999 for a monitor holder branded by a fruit (a bitten fruit, not even a whole one).
Joke aside, the most amusing thing, is that you have to pay $700 for a device attached to your TV, then if you want to check a website you have to resort on your smartphone or whatever shitty browser is integrated in your "smart" TV... because PS5 don't have web browser support!
That one's pretty easy though. Browsers are a HUGE attack surface for jailbreaking. It'll happen eventually anyway, but I can't say that I'm surprised
That's not how the enforce security works. You're either capable to secure the device without removing basic functionality, or don't.
Xbox has a browser, as any iphone/ipad out of there. If the only way for Sony to keep security is cripple functionality; it doesn't mark their device as valuable at all
(additionally, with proper web browser support you can play web videogames without have to pay Sony: would you say this also apply to Sony's choice to remove web browser?)
Weird comparison.
I already own a computer to do daily work in other areas of my life. Why not add the extra $700 to my PC budget and access 35+ years of gaming history, vs. paying $700 to access ~700 games that I can't play when the next hardware iteration drops?
Well, it is a gradient
Consoles are only a few rungs further down on the freedom ladder than a Windows PC. Both are somewhere near the bottom.
Wait, what's got more game availability than a Windows PC?
Answer: A Windows PC + all of the consoles + all of the handhelds + both major mobile device brands.
It just depends on how much you're willing to sell your soul... in order to amuse yourself.
I have a PS5, but Sony has begun releasing their most popular games on windows as well. I run it would be prudent to build a nice gaming PC, even if you shove it in a TV cabinet and connect a controller to it for couch gaming. If you’re patient like me, you not only get a better gaming experience, but a broader one.
Lmao yes but if you could only have one, a Windows PC has far more access in terms of video games.
So if a console came out next year that also exceeded Windows in the quantity of games, you which ditch your gaming PC and switch over to New Console™ in a heartbeat?
Lol no, I'd install a New Console emulator on my PC, of course
The Switch is the only previous gen console we have an emulator for
Good luck using one for a future gen
Don't need to emulate current gen or last gen. Those games all came out on steam lmao
How did you get to my comment without reading the chain?
It's not just quantity, it's also quality and variety. A million gacha games are useless to me.
I'm hearing the word "emulation" floating on the air. That's already PC + most consoles and even Android. It wouldn't surprise me if someone out there has done something about emulating iOS but I've never taken enough interest to know.
Just install Linux