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economics of pc and console gaming?
i literally pay an average of like $3 for pc games (keyshops, gg.deals, etc.) but even the cheapest switch games i've found on ebay are at least $15. nintendo is imo by far the most talented game designer, but pc gaming is crazy economical these days. thoughts?
最后由 comicprodigy 编辑于; 11 月 23 日 下午 2:26
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WarHeRo 11 月 23 日 下午 2:30 
it's cuz regional orice differences
xDDD 11 月 23 日 下午 2:40 
Well for the system itself, consoles are cheaper for what you get.
I'd say the real value for consoles comes with all the free games they get for PS Live or Xbox Live (or whatever they're called) because they constantly get tons of free games.

On the other hand, PC has a lot of fantastic indie games that are better than the AAA slop but far cheaper.
comicprodigy 11 月 23 日 下午 2:45 
引用自 xDDD
Well for the system itself, consoles are cheaper for what you get.
I'd say the real value for consoles comes with all the free games they get for PS Live or Xbox Live (or whatever they're called) because they constantly get tons of free games.

On the other hand, PC has a lot of fantastic indie games that are better than the AAA slop but far cheaper.

true, if you have a dedicated gaming pc.
kbiz 11 月 23 日 下午 2:45 
You can play well-aged gaming masterpieces on a PC for years for pennies on the dollar.

You're just seeing the economic differences between the two platforms.
comicprodigy 11 月 23 日 下午 2:48 
引用自 kbiz
You can play well-aged gaming masterpieces on a PC for years for pennies on the dollar.

You're just seeing the economic differences between the two platforms.

yeah that's true. but if you want to buy old e.g. gamecube games, they're crazy expensive now.


https://www.pricecharting.com/console/gamecube
最后由 comicprodigy 编辑于; 11 月 23 日 下午 2:49
CJM 11 月 23 日 下午 3:15 
引用自 comicprodigy
i literally pay an average of like $3 for pc games
Gamer backlogs on Steam nets a bit of extra profit that wouldn't exist without Steam sales.

That potentially means a bit of lost profit individually from the few consumers who actually want to buy the game. Mass subsidy. Universal Healthcare? Universal "Gamecare"?

引用自 comicprodigy
yeah that's true. but if you want to buy old e.g. gamecube games, they're crazy expensive now.
As a 40 year old Millennial, accounting for inflation, they are not really that much more expensive than they were originally. I figure roughly double the original MSRP.

Perhaps emulation is keeping the values of those old game discs down? The Gamecube emulator on Nintendo Online for the Switch 2 will probably help once it has a decent selection of games (hopefully one doesn't have to download the entire catalog).

If anything, $20 for decades of storage fees, and near equivalent retail price for an out of print item, is primo value.
comicprodigy 11 月 23 日 下午 3:20 
引用自 CJM
引用自 comicprodigy
i literally pay an average of like $3 for pc games
Gamer backlogs on Steam nets a bit of extra profit that wouldn't exist without Steam sales.

That potentially means a bit of lost profit individually from the few consumers who actually want to buy the game. Mass subsidy. Universal Healthcare? Universal "Gamecare"?

引用自 comicprodigy
yeah that's true. but if you want to buy old e.g. gamecube games, they're crazy expensive now.
As a 40 year old Millennial, accounting for inflation, they are not really that much more expensive than they were originally. I figure roughly double the original MSRP.

Perhaps emulation is keeping the values of those old game discs down? The Gamecube emulator on Nintendo Online for the Switch 2 will probably help once it has a decent selection of games (hopefully one doesn't have to download the entire catalog).

If anything, $20 for decades of storage fees, and near equivalent retail price for an out of print item, is primo value.

whether they're rising with inflation or not, they're much more expensive than digitally downloadable pc games from that era, which is all i really was saying.
The price of consoles and their games is why I prefer gaming on the PC.
smokerob79 11 月 23 日 下午 3:23 
i spent 250 to build a AMD 5000 black edition CPU with 2gb of memory and a 9600GSO 768mb when XBOX 360 was still 300 dollars to buy......

before gabe created this monopoly games were a lot cheaper as no one was taking a 30% cut.....60 dollar games on console hit the market for 40 dollars in a lot of cases for PC.....i still have many great games that i picked up in a 5 dollar bargain bins in places like walmart, compUSA, staples, best buy and even some grocery stores.....things like the first borderlands that paid 6 dollars for and still have the disc in box....ghost recon that was 2 dollars.....half life 2 episode packs that were 8 dollars for the pair.....(oh the irony on this one)..... MS flight sim in the metal box was like 12 dollars.....

so real world the prices have gone insane.....we dont have game start at 40 dollars and hit 20 dollars by the end of the year for Xmas......

whats crazy is by 2006 parts had gotten so cheap that looking at a console and the cost of online for 5 years you were well over what a PC costs and the games were always cheaper



as for the "Not PC Master Baiting Disgrace" side of things most people just wont admit the low end hardware like i5's and X60 or even X50 cards are the best selling for 2 decades now.....things like the 3060 matched with a 10400 i5 is more common then a 9800x3d with a 5090......
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