• GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I mean I have both, but you better bring your wallet if you want to PC game. Especially as of late.

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      2 days ago

      Except you don’t have to pay a $110/year subscription on PC. That adds up fast. Nor do you need the highest end hardware.

      And the price of the PS6 is expected to be >$1000

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        10 hours ago

        I don’t pay a subscription on PS5 either. Not everyone online games.

        I just happened to be at a computer store the other day, 64gb of ddr5 ram was going to run you about $1200-1600 Canadian dollars. That’s just the ram, and if you are going to be building a PC right now, thats what you are going to want going forward. Even if a PS6 is $1k, it’s still the better buy if this stuff continues, subscriptions and all. Even a lower end gaming PC is going to likely (well)exceed $2k at these prices.

        I mean my computer is a few years old now, it was pretty decent spec at the time (5800x3d/128gb Ram DDR4/5070ti). The issue is, when the hottest new game releases on PC, it’s often so poorly optimized that for the next couple of months it chugs, on higher end stuff let alone bottom tier stuff. It’s something that isn’t talked about as much, but PC releases (especially AAA) are more often than not released with poor builds that are fraught with issues that you just don’t seem to get quite as much at the console level.

        Not to mention that PC games are all digital now too. It’s all the same issues, problems and behaviours. I don’t like it either, but my point is gaming isn’t perfect in PC land either.