Are Consoles a Luxury now ? : /

[Teeqoz]

Intrinsic said:

Teeqoz said:

From the Oxford dictionary:

Luxury

An inessential, desirable item which is expensive or difficult to obtain:luxuries like chocolate, scent, and fizzy wine.

Gaming only is two of those, inessential and desirable. It is neither expensive or difficult to "obtain". Luxury isn't everything you don't need for survival.

"Expensive" is case sensitive. Because you can afford to spend $400 on a console or even just a GPU doesn't mean half of the world can. 

To OP, like most have said gaming is a luxury. And is nothing like a smartphone. Dedicated PCs and consoled are in my opinion luxuries. Yes, you can do more with a PC, but unless your PC is a workstation I do not or cannot justify how anyone can spend upwards of $1000 on GPUs or components simply to push a couple extra pixels or frames. Yup, luxury. 

that's not a bad thing. Sex outside reprocreation is a luxury too :)

 

8th gen consoles can be considered expensive, but gaming in and of itself isn't/doesn't have to be.  And expensive in 1st world countries is of course not the same as expensive a 3rd world country, so it's kinda weird to see people act like a luxury is the same thing in the whole world, and even weirder to see people think that everything that isn't essential for survival is a luxury, because that is not the definition of luxury.

My main point was that things that are nonessential aren't necessarily luxuries, because many people seem to have that misconception.

 

If a console isn't expensive to me, then it isn't luxury. Thus saying "gaming as a whole is a luxury" just isn't right.