>>725526957
Let's say it's 2020. I have a choice between a PS5 and a PC.
To get a decent specced PC even back then was around ~$2,000 or more. $600-700 for the GPU alone (an RTX 3070 or above), $300 for the CPU, $150+ for the MB, $150+ for the PSU, $100+ for the case, $150+ for ram, $60+ for a CPU cooler, and a new build needs windows so what $150 for that or so? Plus you need case fans if yours doesn't come with enough. Oh yeah, you're gonna need a SSD or HDD, around $200 for a 1TB+ NVMe. Around 2 grand total.
PS5 comes out the same year, it's $600.
Now you're gonna say "The online isn't free" yes, it's bullshit but even if paid full price for PS+ for the last 5 years you're not even paying half as much as you spent for the PC.
Here's the bonus though, I can buy physical games. I own the games. I can re-sell them when I want on facebook marketplace or ebay or craigslist or just for cash and make most of my money back. On PC you don't own your games and can't ever re-sell them.
The trophy system is better than steam's shitty achievement system too.
I'm almost in my 40s, I've played on PC since I was a kid, I built my first PC in 2003 using newegg. I stopped building PCs in the late 2010s because it was more economical to just get a prebuilt which I'm still using (and typing this on) right now. Now I just game on my PS5 and very rarely on PC if there's a game I can't play on my PS5 that I want to play. I always buy physical games when I can and re-sell them after I complete them, and I can just buy it cheap digitally on sale in the future if I ever want to replay it.
