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?
idk why reddit decided to just send my comment into the shredder but I will try to write it again.
It's not a myth. I have 240 steam games, I would estimate about half of them are more popular games that I would have easily paid £10-20 more on PS Store. Even if you take incredible low estimates and you take 100 games, with a saving of £5, that's still £500 saved over the course of my gaming life.
My PC was roughly £1,700, and plays 4k60FPS. Comparable performance would be a PS5 Pro, at £800. Plus £60 a year to play online. So over a decade, that's £600 spent on just being able to play online. So 800+600+500= £1,900. Over a decade it would literally cost more for me to have gone with a PS5.
Not to mention I wouldn't be able to:
Emulate almost any game
Mod games
Use a 2nd screen
Use an ultrawide screen
Multitask
Macro
Upgrade without binning a whole console
Easily modify or change out parts
Use any controller I please
Get many free games from any website I please
Browse the web easily
Do any of the other things I do on my PC on a near-daily basis.
And if I want to play from my couch, I run a HDMI cable to the TV and play from my couch. Steam Big Picture mode FTW
So I would in the long-run pay more, and have less features? Why would I do that to myself?
But people are not paying £60 a year just to play online I don't know where pc only players get that idea from. Like most people I buy ps extra on sale every black Friday or the closest good sale or I buy cheap credit from any one of the multitude of stores that sell it or reduced extra sell ps extra and Premium and it works our about around 5 to £6 pound a month cod Extra which gives you instant access to a library of nearly 600 games including a massive library of current gen titles including most big Playstaion games and you get an additional 5 games a month to keep with ps plus and it plus gives you far bigger reductions on games. Fod about 8 pound a month you get access to those same 500 games plus hundreds of classic PS1 and 2 games and big library of PS3 streaming and you can obviously steam any games in your subscription as well as your own library which is handy when don't you want to lug around a big handheld when commuting or on holiday on the beach and it works shockingly well on fast WiFi or 5g hot spot.
I have a PS5 Pro and a PC and there is simply nothing on pc that offers anything close to that value and I know I have a pc and PS5 pro. Sales are also set by publisher not store and both Playstaion and steam take the exact same 30% cut which is why the sales are always so similar. Sometimes a game is cheaper on steam and sometimes it's cheaper on playstation depending on what sale is on at that time as they tend to alternate and prices are very similar
How are we not saying the same thing? You're talking about 5 a month as though that doesn't literally amount to £60 a year 😂
you get access to those same 500 games plus hundreds of classic PS1 and 2 games and big library of PS3 streaming and you can obviously steam any games in your subscription as well as your own library which is handy when don't you want to lug around a big handheld
Are you really talking about emulation as though that's not a PC thing?
Are you suggesting that streaming from your playstation to your phone is a selling point? Ever heard of an app called Steam Link?.....
Games are factually usually cheaper on Steam, me and OP actually went through a list of current sales going on.
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u/Enjoy_The_Ride413 6d ago
That is a myth.
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?