Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago$5 game is still going to require the console or a PC to play on. And if you want to play the latest title with your friends, it’s going to be 1-2k on the hardware before you can even launch the game
And if you want to play the latest title
Well there is your problem, you can’t compare that to gaming as a whole. That’s like saying photography is only for rich people because good lenses can cost thousands, before you even get a camera to attach them to. Which is true, but you don’t need that.
You can take a photo of the same mountain with the latest and fanciest canon or whatever and your grandma’s old film camera, but you can’t play a lot of games with few years old gaming PC
For example my old gaming PC with 1st gen Ryzen and rx6600 while quite new (~2018-2020 I think) is already severely underspecced to play some modern games even on lowest graphics settings. Luckily I don’t have any interest on playing anything except a little classic wow and oats, so don’t really care of upgrading
I very much agree, it’s hard. But I also think that older games are still just as fun. There are whole emulation communities that just play retro games. That’s an extreme example, but gaming is a very wide hobby and whatever your budget it, you can probably find fun stuff to do.
Sure but you can get a cheap second hand PC or a laptop or a console to play that 5 dollars game and it’s a one time purchase.
Shit you don’t even have to pay 5 dollars, there are plenty of games that are free. I’ve been playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead for hundreds of hours and haven’t paid a cent since it’s a free game, it’s updated daily and it can run on basically any PC since it’s an ASCII game. This is like complaining that it’s too expensive to get into woodworking because you have to buy a hammer.
And if you want to play the latest title with your friends, it’s going to be 1-2k on the hardware before you can even launch the game.
Get friends that don’t ask you to spend 1000 dollars to hang out with them.
Hobbies cost money. Spending $1000 which can last 5-10 years doesn’t make anyone “rich”
Having $1k+ disposable money makes you kinda wealthy though
Not really. It means you can save your money.
You should probably research a bit how much people earn on average, and not just in your own country 😉
markz@suppo.fi 1 day ago
A $5 game is unlikely to need 1-2k on hardware to launch