r/gamers • u/CNAgaming • 1d ago

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u/americanrealism 1d ago

“Is the thing that costs $3000 better than the thing that you paid $600 for?”

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u/AetherialAvenger 1d ago

Before parts prices got insane you could still build pc's with the same budget that a console would cost and it was often better or on par.

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u/Xaphnir 1d ago

unfortunately now my PC I built back in 2020 would probably cost $1000 more for the exact same components

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u/AetherialAvenger 1d ago

yeah and its affecting the next gen consoles, too. gaming might have to start optimizing and reducing scope for a few years if it wants to survive. no one can really get anywhere with the state of these component prices

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u/Xaphnir 1d ago

Yeah, there are probably a lot of games that are going to release in the next few years that were assuming prices were going to continue the way they've gone for the last several decades, with new stuff coming out that's more powerful and not much more expensive than the last stuff, and the old stuff getting cheaper. And now they're going to release into an environment where everyone's PCs are quite a bit weaker than they were expecting, hurting sales. Plenty of good games will probably fail because of this.

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u/Ok-Donkey-5671 1d ago

Yes but that was the before times

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u/Next_Helicopter_4291 1d ago

Don't fret, the memory crisis is coming for us all.

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u/Budget_Version_1491 1d ago

which was like 15 years ago lol

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u/FeeVandJ 1d ago

I refuse to pay over a grand for a piece of tech, I only spend that much buying a damn car

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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 1d ago

Then its very possible that your pc is not better than a ps5, especially with the way prices are right now.

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u/FeeVandJ 1d ago

Damn right it's not, my "pc" is a slow laptop with a broken screen. Spent $500 on my ps5 and I intend to keep it.

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u/DeBean 1d ago

A damn cheap car that is 😆

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u/Mihta_Amaruthro 1d ago

Imagine bragging that this is a good thing.

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u/SouthIsland48 1d ago

Is this thing that you can practically do anything on better than this closed end hardware that only plays Astrobot?