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:cyan_256:​【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】 🐱
Its funny that some people still think about buying videogame consoles when PCs are more profitable at this point.

The console costs arround 400-500 and some bundles costs up to around 700. For that price, or maybe a little more, you can get a mid-range PC. It probably wont have ray tracing, but you can still play almost every game in existence.

At least until your AMD drivers crashes mid-game.
20 Sep 2022 at 7:20 | Open on fedi.absturztau.be
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chris bumber

@enigmatico outside of convenience and marketing, I feel like space might be a reason as well. a proper gaming PC usually calls for a dedicated desk and chair, which can take a decent chunk of space. along with the hassle of setup, especially if the user is unfamiliar with PC gaming, a console can just be tucked away in an entertainment center without taking up additional space.

20 Sep 2022 at 8:34 | Open on fosstodon.org
:cyan_256:​【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】 🐱
@bumbervevo I heard that argument a lot and its not really an issue either.

PCs dont require a "specialized chair". If you want to use mouse and keyboard, just get an office chair. If you want to play with a pad, you can just sit in your couch while playing. Steam has the "big picture" mode which lets you use the steam interface with a game pad. Not to mention that Windows integrates a game interface as well. Get an xbox controller, press the xbox button, and the interface pops up.

As for space, I'd say the PS5 is pretty bulky by itself. The series X, not so much. Still, a MicroATX can do fine for mid-range GPUs and its not any bigger or heavier than a PS5. Any B450 mobo will work for this. However, have in mind that the bigger the case, the better the airflow will be. And we all know how "good" the cooling in those modern consoles is.
@bumbervevo I heard that argument a lot and its not really an issue either.

PCs dont require a "specialized chair". If you want to use mouse and keyboard, just get an office chair. If you want to play with a pad, you can just sit in your couch while playing. Steam has the "big picture" mode which lets you use the steam interface with a game pad. Not to mention that Windows integrates a game interface...
20 Sep 2022 at 8:42 | Open on fedi.absturztau.be
mohito

@enigmatico @bumbervevo issue is desktops require, as the name suggests, a whole desk.
Which is simply not feasible in some households. You either dedicate a specific room of your house to having a desk (i.e. an office) or you clumsily put it in a random corner where it's an eyesore.
With consoles, that's not an issue. You just connect it to a TV and that's it, you don't need a desk for it.
Granted, the TV can take up some space but that's usually already there

20 Sep 2022 at 16:05 | Open on pawoo.net
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mohito

@enigmatico @bumbervevo that's possible but what about the monitor? Keyboard and mouse? Speakers?
All of these can't be on the floor too!

20 Sep 2022 at 19:58 | Open on pawoo.net
:cyan_256:​【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】 🐱
@dead_man @bumbervevo For the screen, if you're going to game, you can use your TV. As for the keyboard and mouse, you can place them on top of the computer case and take and use them only when you need to.

It's not such a problem, really. I have a friend who is going to build a gaming PC and he already made room for it. And the place where he lives is rented.
20 Sep 2022 at 20:00 | Open on fedi.absturztau.be
makura
@enigmatico @bumbervevo @dead_man you can build really performant SFF PCs, if space is a concern

Cost and component availability might be a problem but you can definitely shrink a gaming PC
20 Sep 2022 at 20:06 | Open on udongein.xyz
makura
@enigmatico @bumbervevo @dead_man don't ignore prebuilts as they're also a pretty good deal all things considered; all the research of components and actually cramming them all into a tiny case has all been done for you and tested for reliability

At worst... Steam Deck
20 Sep 2022 at 20:10 | Open on udongein.xyz
:cyan_256:​【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】 🐱
@makura @bumbervevo @dead_man Prebuilts suck in most cases. Specially the ones they sell at regular stores.

They tend to use chinese rip offs of different components like the GPU, they also tend to do weird stuff to the motherboard, like I had a Dell that had a lot of ports taken out of the motherboard. They often don't allow for upgradeability. Plus they tend to cheap out in a lot of key aspects. Like using integrated graphics instead of a dedicated GPU.

I can't recommend those. Although some computer specialized stores might sell some good stuff. You just have to be very careful at the details and check where did they cheap out and how.
@makura @bumbervevo @dead_man Prebuilts suck in most cases. Specially the ones they sell at regular stores.

They tend to use chinese rip offs of different components like the GPU, they also tend to do weird stuff to the motherboard, like I had a Dell that had a lot of ports taken out of the motherboard. They often don't allow for upgradeability. Plus they tend to cheap out in a lot of key aspects....
20 Sep 2022 at 20:29 | Open on fedi.absturztau.be
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