• Skyline969@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    This might not be what you want to hear, but console gaming. For the price of a GPU you can get a console and load up on games.

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      1 day ago

      A PS5 Pro costs like 800€ and is significantly slower, more restricted, and can’t be upgraded without shelling out a similar (and rising) amount of money for another console.

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        15 hours ago

        A pro is absolutely not necessary. The current generation will get new releases for years to come, and performance will be fine. You don’t need to upgrade until the next generation comes out, typically in 5-10 years, and then it’s once for that entire generation.

        Even then your current games are usually backwards compatible, or you just have your old console to play those games.

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          4 hours ago

          and performance will be fine.

          If you can’t have 60 FPS at the minimum I’m not interested in your motion blur cancer.

          You don’t need to upgrade until the next generation comes out, typically in 5-10 years, and then it’s once for that entire generation.

          That’s still more expensive than my mid range PC setups and does not include the needed TV & expensive games.

          Even then your current games are usually backwards compatible, or you just have your old console to play those games.

          Or I could just play everything on the same system indefinitely without having to hoard clunky consoles & peripherals.