Bad news for the video card scene

Even if most PC games are also on consoles there's still good reason for wanting to play them on PC. Usually depending on your system you can get better performance and graphics, and of course more options available to tweak and mod the games. Then of course native mouse and keyboard controls, and the ever important fact that there's always better deals to be had on PC games, and far bigger overall selection. If ever a game is on consoles and PC, I will always go for the PC.

But to KAC's point, these days its harder than ever to build/upgrade a PC. So in theory could be easier to just a get a console which is a single purchase, and call it a day.
 
It's easier to grab an overpriced GPU than a nextgen console here, but I'm from a market that is low on the priority list for Sony/MS.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
Even if most PC games are also on consoles there's still good reason for wanting to play them on PC. Usually depending on your system you can get better performance and graphics, and of course more options available to tweak and mod the games. Then of course native mouse and keyboard controls, and the ever important fact that there's always better deals to be had on PC games, and far bigger overall selection. If ever a game is on consoles and PC, I will always go for the PC.

But to KAC's point, these days its harder than ever to build/upgrade a PC. So in theory could be easier to just a get a console which is a single purchase, and call it a day.
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Which is exactly where I am and went that route. I've been getting to play some amazing games, but I sure would like to see them and play them in full 3090 glory.

I thought for sure at one point that this would be my major upgrade/new PC year. Not happening.
 
Lazy8s said:
Which is exactly where I am and went that route. I've been getting to play some amazing games, but I sure would like to see them and play them in full 3090 glory.

I thought for sure at one point that this would be my major upgrade/new PC year. Not happening.
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I know its a bummer. Hopefully by next year things will start getting back to some semblance of normalcy.
 
Technically in US you can buy a prebuilt which will only gouge you for about 200-500 bucks. Still a better story than trying to build your own. Been trying to grab a 3080 Ti on and off and no dice. It’s not happening and I don’t have the motivation to keep trying for it.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
I know its a bummer. Hopefully by next year things will start getting back to some semblance of normalcy.
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I hope so too. My fantasy right now is a new bleeding edge PC alongside a Bloodborne PC release :lol: I figure at least one of those might happen lol.
 
KAC said:
I think if you have gotten a hold of XSX or PS5 there is no need to have a dedicated PC for gaming. Especially if you are OK with a pad. Most games I played this year were designed for consoles in mind. Plus there are no longer the PC only games that I used to enjoy like Strategy or Isometric RPG. Maybe flight sim might be a reason you want PC for but for 95% of the people PC is pretty irrelevant right now especially with the quality of games out this year.
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I don't know about that. There are lots of isometric RPGS that are pretty good for the PC only. I pretty much also only play PC games, not multi-console games (nothing wrong with them inherently, I'm just not interested in most). Guess I'm that 5% also.
 
KAC said:
Fair enough. You are the 5%.
Also there are tons more console gamers so by default PC seems to be a smaller group (relatively). Seems console supply is improving at least in UAE and you can now find PS5 for as low as 700 bucks which is a first.
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Maybe I'm different too but I use the M$ XSX for sports and racing games that work well with a game pad but play all my first person shooter games on my 3090 PC as I'm much better on a mouse and keyboard than a game pad.Horses for courses I guess.
 
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