[johnnyanmac]

>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

reminder.

>If you bought both this and the PS5 you're already at ~$1200

why would I buy both? PS5 probably still sells for more than launch price in the US. I'd basically break even selling it and then proceed to spend $130 on a dang disc drive. So we're still 600-700 dollars in after 4 years.

>I scratch my head a bit as it touches more in the PC territory than cheaper consoles did in the past.

Mostly because PC's stopped enroaching in console territory some 7 years ago or so, when mining became popular. There was a time where you could build a PC for $400 with the equivalent specs of a PS4/XBO. Any premium was to get better performance.

PS5 Pro does start to enroach, but PC components (mostly the GPU, but a few other components as well) have inflated faster than the consoles. Feels like one of the worst times to buy a PC if your argument is price matching a console.

[yesimahuman]

Don't patronize me, you seem to think you're the authority when it comes to how people react to a $700 console when a great gaming PC is in reach, price wise. And you'd buy both because the target for this probably is already on the playstation upgrade path so very likely already owns the PS5. Looking at Twitter I'm hardly the only one that feels this way.

[pjmlp]

Yeah, additionally it seems really weird that most PC stores in shopping malls don't sell ready made desktops with anything beyond i5 as CPU, one has to go into custom desktops increasing the whole price.

It is no longer the case that buying a regular mid-range desktop PC was good enough for gaming purposes.