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[shikamaru317]

VersusEvil said:

shikamaru317 said:

Sadly PS5 tier specs is the best I can afford as of now. My only other option would be to sell my Series X and Series X physical game collection used since I will soon be able to play all Xbox games on PC gamepass, but I don't really want to do that, Series X is still useful for back compat and it has devalued enough 3 years into the gen that I feel like I'd be losing more than I gained. An extra maybe $350 added to my build would get me up to probablg a Ryzen 7500f CPU, DDR5 RAM, a PCIe 4.0 SSD, and either a GeForce 4060 or RX 6700 GPU, but I'm just not sure it's worth sacrificing my entire Series X for what amounts to maybe an extra 40% performance on my PC build. PC suffers from pretty significant diminishing returns in terms of price/performance ratio the higher you go on price. The build above seems be the price/performance king at present.

Hopefully by the time console gen 10 starts Holiday 2026 with the next-gen Xbox I will be able to afford a much larger PC upgrade that exceeds that next-gen Xbox.

You’re probably better off just buying the Xbox Series X2 console in 2026. 

Eh, the way things are going I doubt that. PC seems to be getting virtually all PS and Xbox exclusives now, which effectively means I can avoid needing to buy 2 consoles and save alot of money over buying what will likely be the first $600 Xbox console in 2026 due to inflation and Xbox's need to have specs high enough to compete with a PS6 that may be launching 2 years later, and then the PS6 for $400 or something on a slim model later in the generation. Better to take that same $1000 and put it into a PC that allows me to play so-called "exclusives" from both premium console makes, while also not paying for multiplayer and saving money with Steam frequent good sales.

I also really like the idea of modding games which you just can't do on Xbox except for Bethesda games post-launch. I've already seen so many good Baldur's Gate 3 mods which is a big part of why I want to upgrade my PC now, so I can play BG3 modded. Also my PC is now 9 years old and so slow it sometimes locks up when just browsing the web or streaming a show or movie.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 10 January 2024