Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates

• 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I built my current pc a couple years ago and have only had to open it for some minor upgrades (new ssd) and cleaning.

  For many that is even too much, then add to that all the software issues, fiddling with settings, etc etc. Consoles are and will be for a long time the simpler and quicker way to play.

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a level of lazy I can’t get behind, but I guess the market exists for a reason.

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    • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not laziness; it’s time. I’ve got three kids and a full time job. If I sit down to play a game and I’m spending that time fiddling with drivers or trying to figure out why the video isn’t displaying on my tv, then I don’t get to play a game.

      I swear, PC snobs are worse than recipe writers about underestimating prep time.

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      • Gwyntale@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Fiddling with drivers” means pressing UPDATE on your graphics driver once every couple of months, even less frequently if you don’t play the newest AAA Games.

        Getting the screen to display takes the same time as with a console: Once while setting up and usually amounts to “Plug in the chord”.

        If you want to play on console you do you, but thid shouldn’t be your reason.

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Especially when the price of consoles are matching PCs. The price of being that lazy is too high, and that’s not even factoring the advantages of everything you get out of a PC.

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      • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Some of us have lives beyond work and gaming that requires our time and money.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Price of consoles went up with RAM and storage. It got more expensive on PC too. Brand new midrange prebuilt (5060ti, 9500f, 16 GB of RAM) is now 1500€ near me. PS5 Slim Digital is 549€ at the same store.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You have to clean your consoles too, dust doesn’t discriminate

    Also, upgrading your SSD isn’t mandatory, BUT you can do it if you want

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• phx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depends on what you play on PC. A lot of AAA decent releases are, but there’s stuff regularly on sale and it’s pretty easy to accumulate a backlog just from sales of good games.

  There’s also reasonably priced releases like Silksong but that’s more rare

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    PC prices as in the PCs themselves. RAM and storage are way up over the last year.

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    • phx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah yes. Getting a PC that breaks into the game market has always been a bit more pricey - though the Deck helped that - but these days the component cost is just insane.

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