PC Gaming is NOT Best Value!

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With all this price increase on consoles, maybe we should take the third option and go for PC gaming, right?

// The idea that PC gaming is the "best value" doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

That depends on how you define value.

// Building a rig capable of matching PS5 performance can easily run $1.400 - $2.000 if you want high end specs that can improve visual performance or brute force unoptimized ports and that's before peripherals, licenses, etc.

First off, do not go to PC gaming expecting to build a PC that matches a console or better than a console. You go to PC gaming to play games on a PC. That's it.

Second, you can make great PCs under $1.000. It's more expensive than consoles, but that $400 extra is worth it for the flexibility, the hardware, how you play your games, how to set your games, software, emulation, mods, all the benefits of PC gaming.

Third, if you don't want to build a PC, you can get excellent gaming laptops for under $1.000. PC elitists love to bash gaming laptops, but I couldn't disagree more. I think they are excellent ways to enter PC gaming for a lot of people who want to get into PC gaming without the hassle of building one or buying other peripherals.

// That's a multiple of the cost of a console like PlayStation, which delivers optimized performance and exclusives out of the box.

Yeah, no. This is not true for plenty of multi-platform games these days. They run terribly on both PCs and consoles.

// On software, the supposed advantage of PC evaporates quickly.

No, it doesn't. If anything, it absolutely eviscerates consoles in that department. Windows sucks, but Linux is available, and at least Windows gives you more flexibility and freedom than your average console OS.

// Steam's full-price launches for the majority of AAA games are the same as console, and outside of a few seasonal sales, PlayStation's discounts are just as competitive, often better when factoring in PS Plus discounts.

Even if PlayStation's discounts are just as competitive as Steam's (they're not), games being discounted is a very small part of "software." For all its faults, Windows allows more digital distributors other than Steam. Not to mention you can play way more games than the ones that PlayStation lets you. And if we're talking about software in the context of game library, Windows easily wins in quantity.

So, yeah. In software, PC absolutely eviscerates consoles. Yes, PC is not the best value for everybody, but it depends on how you define value. To me, and to a lot of PC gamers in the world, it is perfect.