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PlayStation's CEO drastically underestimates the Steam crowd's patience, thinks PC gamers will buy a PS5 for exclusive sequels (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 95 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

Fixed title:

PlayStation's CEO drastically overestimates the PC crowd's wallet capacity, thinks PC gamers will buy an inferior, overpriced, locked down PC that can only play specific games on a non-replacable proprietary OS with planned obsolescence for when the PS6 comes out

[–] reminiscensdeus@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago (12 children)

I'll never not be a PC gamer but calling PS overpriced at the moment is wild. Compared to the cost of PC components right now 5 or 6 hundred is not ridiculous. That's cheaper than mid to high tier GPU alone.

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps in isolation, but given that most people need a PC, would you rather:

a) buy a subpar PC for productivity and a console that's going to be wasted money in a few years' time, and you need to invest even more money on a new console (unless you never want to play new games again), and/or pour a bunch of money into scam subscription online services to get games (or even play them at all if they're online)

b) buy a good PC with money you would have otherwise spent on the console, that will last effectively until the hardware dies, and even then you can upgrade it instead of buying a new PC

I agree the LLM and cryptobro insanity has screwed the GPU market, but in the long run even at the current prices PCs are still a better deal.

[–] reminiscensdeus@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

As I said I play games on PC so I would rather option B. I'm just saying that I don't think PS is comparatively that expensive. If PCs are a better deal, it's not by that much.

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