• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    They have until recently. A PC equivalent to a PS5 would have been way more than $400 in 2020. And most discs do not require a download to work.

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        Digitally, PC wins easily on game cost, but it evens out more when you add in physical media. Of course, a lot of games don’t have physical versions. Aaaand the pay to play online thing adds to the cost. Consoles are (were) a “pay less now to pay more later” proposition. Now it’s “pay slightly less now and more later”.