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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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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 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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