Modern PC gaming is way too expensive.

[Shocker]

PC gaming has became more expensive in the last couple years than it ever was. If you want to buy the latest hardware you need to spend 6 times the price of a PlayStation 5.

[Rebel the Murderbrat]

You don't have to pay for 4k

[Chaosolous]

PC gaming has always been pricier. It’s the cost of having the superior platform.

Crypto and AI have driven up computational costs as well.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

PC gaming has always been pricier. It’s the cost of having the superior platform.

It wasn't this much pricier. The prices became extremely high in the last couple of years.

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by Shocker:

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

PC gaming has always been pricier. It’s the cost of having the superior platform.

It wasn't this much pricier. The prices became extremely high in the last couple of years.

Crypto and AI have driven up computational costs as well.

[Goldias]

You don't need latest hardware to play games.
I never buy latest hardware and can play most games at medium - low settings.

[SHAZBOT]

i didnt notice im playing with Intel® Core™ i7-2700K Processor

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[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

The modern world is a scam; stop playing their game with their stupid monopoly money and start scamming those mofos back 🏴‍☠️

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Goldias:

You don't need latest hardware to play games.
I never buy latest hardware and can play most games at medium - low settings.

I have an i7 7700, 16 GB RAM, and a GTX 1070 Ti since late 2018. I was able to max out pretty much everything for many years at 1080p 60 fps. The problem is that even the RTX 2000 and 3000 series card are very expensive, and than add the CPU, RAM, mother board, cooler to it.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Nvidia and Taylor Swift are the only things propping up the U.S. economy.

[atomicgirl]

Not true. PC gaming has always catered to three specific types--casual, average and hardcore, and hardcore gamers always had to spend at least a thousand more than the casual or average gamer to use the latest bleeding edge PC technology. As others have said, you don't need to play games on maxed out settings. That's a choice you're making, not a question of you being scammed.

If it's so expensive right now to have the latest, greatest bleeding edge tech, then you have to do what so many people did back in the day, and that's stick with old games for awhile while waiting for the current tech to come down in price when even newer tech comes out. You can also try buying stuff used or refurbished.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Sir Seanicus, Esq.:

Nvidia and Taylor Swift are the only thing propping up the U.S. economy.

PC gaming is expensive everywhere. I'm not even from the US and in other countries it's even more expensive.

[SHAZBOT]

sea of thieves got bad one day. i got trolled by a random player from match to match to match. our ELO ratings were the same so we kept getting matched up. everntually she sank my ship like a 3rd time so i got on the mic and started trolling her calling her.... the c word among other things for like 5 minutes straight.

then i hear a little kid get on the mic whine why are you mad at me what did i do. he or she was so young i couldnt tell if it was a girl or boy

[Pharaoh (Revolution Idol)]

PC is rapidly outpacing consoles imo. We're paying more because right from the start of this console gen you could buy a gfx card that would last you the entire console generation. It's a great time to buy a 3080 or 4080 and ride out the rest of this hardware cycle. When looked at that way these products are a good value.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Frey:

PC is rapidly outpacing consoles imo. We're paying more because right from the start of this console gen you could buy a gfx card that would last you the entire console generation. It's a great time to buy a 3080 or 4080 and ride out the rest of this hardware cycle. When looked at that way these products are a good value.

A 4080 alone is like triple the price of a PS5, and that is just one component.

[Pharaoh (Revolution Idol)]

Originally posted by Shocker:

Originally posted by Frey:

PC is rapidly outpacing consoles imo. We're paying more because right from the start of this console gen you could buy a gfx card that would last you the entire console generation. It's a great time to buy a 3080 or 4080 and ride out the rest of this hardware cycle. When looked at that way these products are a good value.

A 4080 alone is like triple the price of a PS5, and that is just one component.

Yeah, I know. An 8800GTX cost as much as an entire PS3 but it was a phenomenal series of cards back in the day.

That 4080 will be the only card you need for the next five years at least.

I find the pricing on these products is usually pretty spot on. If you buy $200 graphics cards you'll end up buying 2-4 of them before the hardware cycle is over.

Anything that outperforms PS5's RDNA 2.0 based GFX chip will pretty much take you to the end of the console gen, you may wanna spec up a bit because of "console optimisations" and the fact that sometimes the PC version can't be turned down enough to equal console settings.