This type of PCMR regarded takes is what lets NVIDIA charge 950€ for what should essentially be a 5060 card.
Get a steamdeck instead of a PS5 every day of the week but arguing you can build a PC for the price of a PS5 (now selling as low as 400€) is downright regarded…
Look, I’m with you on the steam deck, but you really can build a roughly comparable PC for the same price as a console these days. Granted, it’ll have an older video card that might not include the RTX cores that are apparently mandatory in some new AAA titles, but it’ll still have a playable library of titles that is much larger than the amount of free time humans get to enjoy on this earth.
M8, that’s the wrong argument, you CANNOT do it for 400€-500€. I get that a PC is much more versatile, but as a turnkey solution, the console or steamdeck are downright unbeatable in value right now. GPUs cost stupid money and the PS5 still holds its own against a 6700XT(7700)/4060ti, plus it has resume play like the deck…
I use a PC (9070XT is a wonderful card) but I’m privileged. If I weren’t, I’d be buying a PS5 or a Steamdeck. You can get used PS5 disks for 10-20€, you don’t need to pay to play FTP games online and don’t need internet to play your used disks. It’s overall a far superior option unless your budget is above 1000€ or you have some kind of malformation that only let’s you play with KBM.
The PS5+used games or a Steamdeck in case you already have a library on steam are downright the only smart money options nowadays in the EU.
If you have 1000€ to burn, then you can get a pretty good machine with AM4 and RDNA3 for a reasonable price (7800xt are going for not stupid money normally). I’d still wait for the 9060 to get FSR4 and slap bazzite on a HTPC build and call it a day.
This type of PCMR regarded takes is what lets NVIDIA charge 950€ for what should essentially be a 5060 card.
Get a steamdeck instead of a PS5 every day of the week but arguing you can build a PC for the price of a PS5 (now selling as low as 400€) is downright regarded…
Look, I’m with you on the steam deck, but you really can build a roughly comparable PC for the same price as a console these days. Granted, it’ll have an older video card that might not include the RTX cores that are apparently mandatory in some new AAA titles, but it’ll still have a playable library of titles that is much larger than the amount of free time humans get to enjoy on this earth.
M8, that’s the wrong argument, you CANNOT do it for 400€-500€. I get that a PC is much more versatile, but as a turnkey solution, the console or steamdeck are downright unbeatable in value right now. GPUs cost stupid money and the PS5 still holds its own against a 6700XT(7700)/4060ti, plus it has resume play like the deck…
I use a PC (9070XT is a wonderful card) but I’m privileged. If I weren’t, I’d be buying a PS5 or a Steamdeck. You can get used PS5 disks for 10-20€, you don’t need to pay to play FTP games online and don’t need internet to play your used disks. It’s overall a far superior option unless your budget is above 1000€ or you have some kind of malformation that only let’s you play with KBM.
The PS5+used games or a Steamdeck in case you already have a library on steam are downright the only smart money options nowadays in the EU.
If you have 1000€ to burn, then you can get a pretty good machine with AM4 and RDNA3 for a reasonable price (7800xt are going for not stupid money normally). I’d still wait for the 9060 to get FSR4 and slap bazzite on a HTPC build and call it a day.