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IcaroRibeiro said:
trunkswd said:

I picked the right time to switch to PC gaming. All Xbox games day one and PS games a year or 2 later. Though, I did spend as much on my GPU as the PS5 Pro and Series X 2TB costs. But it does mean my PC is far more powerful than any console and I don't need to upgrade for many, many years. Plus, Steam sales tend to be better than what we get on consoles.

I'll built my PC for around 9500 BRL, which is 4000 BRL more than what I bought my PS5 Horizon Bundle 2 years ago (but now we can buy it for around 4100 BRL). My PC is a bit more powerful than the base PS5

So PC gaming still twice as expensive as consoles

However when it comes to software at least where I live the prices are much better since steam adjusts prices based on country currency

Base PS Plus is already 360 BRL a year, in 5 years this alone will cost me ~1800 BRL, which by itself offsets 50% of the price I paid on my PC over my PS5

And goes without saying PCs have actual use for other things other than just gaming

Consoles are only better with play few games a year, uses physical media and don't care for online play. Otherwise PC all the way 

In total I spent around $2,000 over the course of 2 years to upgrade. I upgraded the MOBO, CPU, RAM, and SSD first for about $1,000, then got the GPU for ~$700 about a year later. I kept my old case, monitors, keyboard, and mouse. 



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