re: Can't believe I have to buy Xbox for Starfield and Switch for Super Mario RPG

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While I completely agree with this, building a pc isn't something that's done flippantly in terms of money

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On surface level you're right, but I think things even out a lot more than most realize when you start factoring in game sales in addition to performance gains relative to how often you have to upgrade.

Game sales happen very frequently with extremely high percentage sales on Steam by itself, which console stores don't have near as frequent sales or as good of prices usually.

As for upgrading, consoles are basically all or nothing whereas PCs are not. A solid rig that outperforms or at least evenly competes with consoles is probably only a little more expensive and the game sales would make up the rest if I had to guess.

Obviously I don't have numbers on hand though