| firebush03 said: Every so often, I question whether it’d be better to continue purchasing a(n increasingly more expensive) PlayStation system to play all these first-party and some third-party Sony experiences, or if I’d be getting more for my money by simply purchasing a PC. From what I have researched, however, maintaining even a somewhat modern PC can cost several hundreds per yer. And every ten-ish years, you’ll need to drop thousands on a new set up. Am I understanding this correctly? Help me out. |
Cost isn't an issue if you plan for the long term, you don't need to upgrade every year, two years, three years.
Case in point...I have a Ryzen 5950X which I have had for the last 5 years. - I am running everything and running them better than the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 and currently building a new Ryzen 9950X3D PC.
And this PC will likely be used for another 10+ years even during the PS6 era.
...Case in point I have a Phenom 2 x6 1090T PC which I built in 2010 which PREDATES the Xbox One and Playstation 4, 15 years ago... And with an old Radeon 6600XT GPU which filtered down from my other PC it's playing some modern games just fine like Baldurs Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and more.
And take another step backwards... I still have my Core 2 Quad Q9650 PC from 2008 (17 years ago) and it's playing Black Myth Wukong, even if it's 30fps.
...But the biggest hindrance with my 1090T and Q9650 PC's isn't so much the CPU performance... It's actually the instruction sets which prevents SOME modern games from even being able to boot and the Ram bandwidth, my Q9650 even without the CPU and GPU at 100% is just bottlenecked by the old DDR2 800Mhz Ram. (I have a new motherboard with DDR3 support, just haven't gotten around to swapping it yet.)
And with Frame-gen being a thing now, it's going to prolong the life of those systems.
Otherwise...
1) PC games are cheaper.
2) PC accessories are cheaper.
3) PC online is free.
4) You can get free PC games. (Epic store)
And that completely removes the cost factor over the long-term. Especially as consoles are more expensive today than they have ever been as Microsoft/Sony no longer subsidize their hardware to the same degree that they used to.
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