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PCs have only been expensive since 2017 because GPU prices. to be specific only GPUs are expensive since 2017, the rest of a PC is still as cheap as ever.
before that PCs were last expensive in the early 2000s and it was mainly in terms of value over time. the rapid evolution made your PC obsolete so fast that if you calculated in "how many years of gaming can I get out of this price" it was bad.
from the early 2000s until 2017 PC gaming was a cheap hobby and unambiguously cheaper than consoles. do you guys even realize that console games were already 60 bucks in the 2000s while PC games were always under 50? do you realize that both consoles have been charging a subscription just to access multiplayer since 2013 (Xbox since always) and on PC you just play for free?
the crypto bubble of 2017 (still on-going) and the AI bubble of recent years extended the business model of consoles by over a decade. but MS is giving up as the margins aren't there (Xbox now just means gamepass, yet another subscription scam) and Playstation is losing billions on failed game productions and forced to give its exclusives up to PC to make some of its losses back. both are likely selling hardware at a loss because it's not like AMD is a charity or lacks other customers.
Nintendo are their own thing and aren't really susceptible to anything going on the rest of the market so I'm excluding them from this analysis. they will be around longer than any of us. and I will still never buy a Nintendo system.
