• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Only a tiny minority of PC gamers pay monthly for anything.

    You can’t upgrade the PS5, and the sale price of your 5-year-old unit is like $100.

    Free games aren’t included in the 10 per month.

    The cost of 18 per month to also have old games costs 1300 over 6 years.

    The PC you can get for $200 will be awful to use or die within 3 years or both. It will be ridiculous to repair, so you will buy another 200 special hating the shit you bought both times.

    Basically at the root a PC and a console are both good for about 6 years but the 700-1300 you pay for online is going to dwarf the buy up from acceptable PC to gaming PC+ hardware.

    Cheap PC are the value option expensive pc are the quality option.

    Consoles are kind of in between.

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        16 hours ago

        I didn’t say they didn’t watch netflix or have internet.

        PC gamers don’t pay a monthly fee connected to their gaming.

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          14 hours ago

          So PC GamePass isn’t a thing? If Valve offered a solid subscription offering, gamers would be all over it.