• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nope. I spent $250 last year and played every single new game I wanted. Rentals and reselling is far far more valuable and cheaper. I would have spent well over $1500 in games alone before you even start taking about hardware.

    Digital only is a scam ushered in by valve.

    • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      $250 can land you one hell of a budget gaming pc pair this with copious amounts of free games from the epic game launcher and no paying for subscriptions and you’ll be saving alot in the long run

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        1 year ago

        And if you’re that stretched for money, you can always pirate games much easier on a PC than a console. Legally grey but morally pirating because you can’t afford is fine.

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      1 year ago

      If you want to play every new AAA release on release, sure, something like gamepass/ps plus is cheaper. You can also get gamepass on PC fwiw, so it’s not really a good argument for consoles. I usually just wait for games to go on sale for $10-20, plus it gives time for the games to actually get patched and function properly. I’ve also been dumping thousands of hours into the same 3 or 4 games for the last decade, so really I could have spent nothing on PC gaming other than a few hundo on a new GPU a couple years ago.

      And for most people, you need to have a PC anyway. Consoles are not good at doing your taxes or editing documents. So the alternative to a gaming PC isn’t just a console, it’s a console and a weaker PC bundled together. The price difference between a budget laptop and a kickass gaming rig is going to be less than the price of console.

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      1 year ago

      I like when I wait a month and get 25-40% off the release price that was already cheaper than the console release price.

      I like even more when the game ends up being shit and I just don’t buy it at all. I’ve saved so much money because of this it’s actually a bit nuts.