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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Let's compare a 6 year price without games.

PC gaming

800 gaming PC 200 mid cycle update to GPU 3-5 years in

PS5

500 non-gaming PC because your ps5 isn't a useful alternative 500 ps5 650 ps5 pro 4 years in 720 for PlayStation online basic at 10 per month

1000 vs 2370

Laughing at console gamers spending more than the cost of a basic computer on the privilege of using it online via your own internet which you also pay for

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  • [+] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Only a tiny minority of PC gamers pay monthly for anything.

    You can't upgrade the PS5, and the sale price of your 5-year-old unit is like $100.

    Free games aren't included in the 10 per month.

    The cost of 18 per month to also have old games costs 1300 over 6 years.

    The PC you can get for $200 will be awful to use or die within 3 years or both. It will be ridiculous to repair, so you will buy another 200 special hating the shit you bought both times.

    Basically at the root a PC and a console are both good for about 6 years but the 700-1300 you pay for online is going to dwarf the buy up from acceptable PC to gaming PC+ hardware.

    Cheap PC are the value option expensive pc are the quality option.

    Consoles are kind of in between.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I didn't say they didn't watch netflix or have internet.

    PC gamers don't pay a monthly fee connected to their gaming.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    So PC GamePass isn't a thing? If Valve offered a solid subscription offering, gamers would be all over it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the point is that you don't have to pay ANYTHING per month to play apps or games you already fully paid for online whereas not paying for playstation online means you lose that entire aspect of your own device whereas with a ps5 if you stop paying sony you can no longer even use netflix despite paying netflix your isp and sony for their hardware. They use the fact that they control your device to effectively blackmail you by making third party apps contingent on paying their blackmail.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Reading this gave me a headache

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Would you like a meme with 8 or less characters and a 2nd grade reading level to calm you down?

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    No, thanks! I'd instead like a handful of punctuation and proper formatting, for instance:

    500 non-gaming PC because your ps5 isn’t a useful alternative 500 ps5 650 ps5 pro 4 years in 720 for PlayStation online basic at 10 per month

    With no commas, periods, or maybe a dollar sign before the numbers, if I didn't know you were making a price comparison, it would just seem you're just throwing a bunch of numbers around without making any sense.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    500 non-gaming PC because your ps5 isn’t a useful alternative

    That's kind of a non-argument. I know a lot of people with desktop gaming PCs who also have a laptop (for school, uni, whatever). The people I know who only play games on console usually don't have a desktop, they only have a laptop that's not suitable for gaming. I also know a lot of people who play games on console and PC and therefore have both, plus usually a laptop. And then I also know a lot of people who don't have ps+/xbox-whatever because they don't play online games.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I don't think its a non-argument. If we are talking about PC gaming as a budget option the fact that you CAN have JUST a singular device isn't obviated by the fact that some people have a separate general purpose PC any more than it is because some people still a $5000 GPU on a $15000 device.

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