• ampersandrewEnglish
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    To be fair on the price increase thing, this is the first time in the history of video games that the cost to produce the hardware went up over time.

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      And inflation is insane nowadays.

      Personally I’m gonna stick with my desktop and Deck

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        Well, it was insane in the middle there. Maybe it’s worse where you are, but in the US, it’s back almost to where it’s supposed to be.

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          Maybe but that doesn’t mean that the value of currency has returned to where it was. Unless there has been some deflation that I’m not awake of.

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            No, there hasn’t been, but there is a distinction between currently experiencing high inflation and previously experiencing high inflation in the middle of a hardware product’s life cycle.

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      Yeah and don’t forget that even with the inflated price, a ps5 is cheap compared to a pc as powerful.

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        No it’s not. PlayStation costs money if you want to go online, PC not. PlayStation games are a lot more expensive than on PC and you lose access to your gamed with every new generation unless you want to store your old console. Also generally PC sales are much deeper then on the controlled PlayStation store. To believe your console is cheaper is really not true.

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          On PlayStation you can still buy second hand games because of the disc drive. I don’t know if PC still have a blu-ray drive anymore.

          You can still get a lot of new games on ps4 which is a cheap console.

          I guess that for some people having a gaming pc is cheaper, but for me having a ps5 and a weak pc is cheaper.

          It depends on the user

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            Why should the PC not have a blu-ray drive, it has all the freedom a console lacks. But I don’t remember the last time I needed one, because I can get just a few month old games for 5 bucks. So I didn’t even bother buying a drive. I buy games for 45 bucks while on console they cost 80 and more, on release day.

            Yeah add the cost for the week PC on top, another reason why PC is cheaper, as you’ll likely need a PC regardless.

            Not playing online would be the only reason why PS is cheaper and if you buy no games and only lend them from others. Price of PlayStation plus PS+ gets you a good PC if you use it for 5+ years, which most do.

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              Maybe if you see it that way. But just thinking about how much you need to upgrade your PC or tinker with it for everything to work is too much for me.

              I already don’t like the fact that on ps5 you have to choose between performance and fidelity modes, so imagine if I had to choose settings on a pc.

              Also on consoles, you just know a game is gonna work perfectly, which is not always the case on pc.

              But PC is better for some players and console are better for some others.

              I sometimes consider jumping to PC gaming, but I see too many inconveniences for now.