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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You are forgetting that you have to pay to play online. Your $500 console is an $800 console if you use it for 5 years. You can build a roughly PS5 equivalent PC (RX 6700) for more like $650-700 which is less overall.

Plus it's a computer so you can also use it for normal computer things, and the games themselves are generally much cheaper with a huge backlog and sales all the time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I did forget that. Also that price point is awesome, I just dumped a ton on a fresh build. I didn't want to minmax on it but it's cool you can get it that low and still have that level of quality. Gotta hate NVIDIA.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Also don't forget living at the whim of the manufacturer with regards to backwards compatibility.