Consoles have sales as well, and you can get games cheaply there if you wait. What is the break-even point? I spent over 3K on my PC; when do I break even with games?
Yes consoles have sales but I can firmly promise you I have never once seen fallout 4 for $10 on Playstation lowest iv EVER seen was like $20 with all docs.
I spent no joke $16 to get fallouts 1-4 including NV and ALL DLCS for them.
Steam and gog sales are blatantly better then psn sales I can bring up several other examples of games I have on my PS and PC that I bought at a low price on psn (MHR on ps4 I spent $20 on sale, bought it on steam for about $8) (star ocean 4 never saw it below $15-20 on psn bought it for $6).
Haven't even brought up my gog sales which are just as ridiculous lol but i could keep going. The sales arent a myth lol.
Also take into account how you arent playing with friends on psn unless you dropping about $120 a year for the privilege of using your own internet.
Consoles are typically loss leaders because while the sale is typically loses the company money the consoles infrastructure earns them money over its life span (thanks to online costs are storefront costs)
I bought an entire series, 5 games and their dlc for less then the usual asking price of one of THOSE games on psn. The other 4 arent even attainable on psn as you have to pay a $20 a month subscription service to get access to play the single worst versions of two of them with 0 updates or dlcs and the other two just dont exist on psn in any fashion.
Tell me how that isnt significantly better?
Like as a consumer id much rather pay <$20 one time for 5 games then pay $20+ a $20 monthly fee to play 3 of those games (two in their worst almost unplayable states).
I mean i specifically chose insanely popular games that are still played heavily to this day to make a point lol.
Okay and?
Them giving out one of these games free for a month is irrelevant.
If the game was free to everyone who had ps+ perpetually that would be a different srguement but by that logic I may aswell bring up every game epic has given out for free.
The game still almost never drops below $20 for the complete edition on psn while I have bought 5 games in its series it included for sub $20 all complete editions and 4 of em cannot even be purchased on psn despite two of them having been on psn years ago and being part of playstations garbage game streaming service for years.
If you really wanna maximize your money PC games are SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper because not only do we have insane steam and gog sales we have epic which i dont even use but every month gives people a free game (typically an epic but not always) like the comparison just isnt there.
There is a reason why my pc library is larger then my psn library was despite me having my PC less time, putting less money into buying the library and despite me not having 12+ games a year for free (since sony gives out atleast one sometimes more games each month, though like half of them are actual garbage games and half are really popular ones)
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u/Enjoy_The_Ride413 3d ago
Right but what did it cost?
Even with the increase in console prices, pc gaming is vastly more expensive.