I’m making the argument that gaming is not a cheap hobby.

It can’t be cheap regardless of what is stated.

The cost of your steam deck alone has already ate up over two thirds of what I have spent fishing in the past ten or so years and that’s with a rod, a few ice fishing rigs and buying a yearly fishing license.

Gaming is not a cheap hobby. There are ways that you can make it cheaper, but I would never agree that it is one of the lesser expensive hobbies.

I think I would have to agree with your metric of 450 being the starting point., because this Steam Deck is probably the cheapest option you can have for a gaming system at this point but that’s not going to provide you with any games. You are going to have to find some way of doing so, and for someone who just spent $450 on a gaming unit, that probably means you’re going to be spending money on the Steam store. Because it’s not like Epic Game Studios allows you to retroactively redeem every freebie they offer.

I spent $150 on my rod, another $100 on my ice fishing rig, and I have spent 30 a year for my fishing license. You can also include the boat, if you like, which would be $50 that I spent 15 years ago, but I generally fish off the shore.

Now, I will agree with you that if you’re doing deep sea fishing, that’s where the mega bucks is. My parents do that. I couldn’t do it. Because that’s like $1,500 for the boat trip, or buying a boat that can handle the ocean. on top of the at minimum $300 deep-sea fishing poles because everything needs to be stronger and weighted

But I definitely don’t agree that fishing as a whole is a more hobby than gaming, that concept is absolutely ludicrous to me.