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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Sales Breakdown - with PC making up a whopping 68% of units sold (lemmy.prograhamming.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Games haven't been cheaper on PC for over a decade. Newsflash: Games go on sale regularly on most consoles. Usually better deals than PC. I got Dredge on Xbox for $12, lowest its been on PC is $25.

PCs have a huge range in price but it was literally impossible to build a PC as good as a console for the same price as a console when they released.

Advantages of consoles:

Portability: Steamdeck and the Nintendo Switch are far more convenient than streaming PC games to you phone. Even the PS5 and XBOX Series consoles are easier to move around than the majority of PCs.

Cost: Games are the same price on PC and Consoles in the majority of markets. Steam right now in Canada is actually more expensive than all console storefronts. The intro cost of the machine itself is generally cheaper. On release to get a PC with the same specs as the PS5 you would have to spend $1500 USD. 3 times the price of the PS5 and a game. I just checked pcpartpicker and you still need to spend 800 USD to get a PC on par with the PS5. Still twice the price of the PS5.

Ease of use: Out of box, without question, consoles are easier to use and have a better set of accessibility options for all users.

Coop and controllers: Each console has their own controller that is more comfortable than M&K in extended play and more convenient for couch play. Couch coop is almost exclusively a console benefit. Console controllers benefit over K&M in racing games as well and have dead zones for all other types of games. K&M lacking a dead zone feature is extreamly annoying in a lot of games, especially stealth games.

Maintenance and compatibility: Consoles are easy to maintain. No worring about upgrades or hardware/OS compatibility.

Gaming options: Without resorting to piracy, consoles offer the largest variety of gaming options. More games release on console than they do on PC. That being said a lot of these games are exclusive to certain consoles. Nintendo is extreamly bad for that.

PCs do have thier own pros like lack of exclusive games, upgradibility, customization, over all better performance, Minecraft Java edition. To say that consoles have none is just delusional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

overall some good points, but this one is simply untrue:

Gaming options: Without resorting to piracy, consoles offer the largest variety of gaming options. More games release on console than they do on PC.

a higher number of games is released on PC by a huge margin.

you also forgot to mention modding, which is either not an option, or very limited on consoles...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got Dredge on Xbox for $12, lowest its been on PC is $25.

What are you even talking about? $25 is the base price on PC; are you claiming that it's literally never been on sale on the platform? Because that's obviously, hilariously, wrong.

Meanwhile, the lowest it seems to have gotten on Xbox is $20 (check the History tab there - I can't find a way to link directly to it).

The dude you're arguing with is an absolute toolbag with his blind PCMR bullshit, but you aren't helping the case against him by spewing blatant bullshit of your own.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking USD is the only currency. The website you linked doesn't account for Gamepass discounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking anyone knows or cares what currency you're talking about when you don't bother to specify.

The website you linked doesn't account for Gamepass discounts.

You're making your case even worse. I like consoles, but arguing that paying a monthly fee to get a 20% discount is better than the regular deep discounts that PC games get is laughable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Negative IQ.