It certainly was the case, for a while, given you were shooting for similar specs to consoles. But times are a little different now.
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Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoI’ve been told for decades that building a PC is cheap and easy and more affordable than a console. Are you saying that was a PC gamer lying on repeat?
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Lol. This is a damned lie or some strange rejection of reality. I can’t decide.
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It really was, I migrated from console to pc around the beginning of the Xbox One/ps4 generation. It was more effort to hunt down parts and build a PC, for sure, but it was very doable to match console performance for the same price. These days though thanks in part to tariffs, and crypto mining, hardware prices are worse than they used to be.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
List the parts you bought and we’ll compare to the price of that console generation.
I’m morbidly curious to see where this leads.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m saying that building one small is difficult.