It's official: consoles cost as much as gaming PCs now

Paying $700 for a locked system is crazy.

Modern consoles with digital games already blur the lines on console generations, but like, very few games are even using the PS5 to max.

PC you can decide your own "generation", and if you upgrade your PC, you don't have to buy remakes, you just turn the settings up.

Between that and locking yourself to one entity to buy games from, there's a lot of downsides to consoles and not many upsides left.

But friendly reminder: games are almost always cheaper on PC. Maybe not at first, but very quickly.

The initial buy in for the steam deck is so much cheaper. It has everything you need in a package: oled screen, portable, better sales, mods, repairable and free multiplayer.

Maybe I'm too Canadian to understand but where on earth are you able to build a decent gaming PC able to play the latest AAA games on high graphics for $700?

No really, please tell me. I want to upgrade my PC.

Edit: For everyone trying to explain it to me.

1. There's more to a PC than a CPU and GPU. Those of you giving me only those 2 that make up more than half of the $700 are kind of reinforcing my point.

2. The key thing here is running AAA games on high settings using this budget. You can't really do that.

A gaming GPU has cost as much as a console for a while now.

Steam Deck all the way. Also Sony's been shit since at least the 2011 hack.

You can also get PC games from all kinds of sources and sales that ultimately are far cheaper than the pithy Playstation sales. It greatly offsets costs over time.

You also have far more backwards compatibility and flexibility especially to do things with controller profiles and mods, etc.

Remember when everyone though the PS3 was insane at 599 US dollars?

You can't even get probably the equivalent graphics card in there for less than $700. I still think PCs are more expensive.

I’m just going to hang out over here with my (modded) PC games from the early 2000s that I love so much…

Modern AAA gaming is not for me.

I've been looking for an excuse to switch to pc.

Why would I buy a digital only console for 700 usd? My pc is digital only. The only reason I even buy consoles is physical games, but Sony wants to stop giving that option.

The worst part of this for me is that I remember when you could build a PC with better specs than a console for the same price. Now we're coming back full circle to where that might be possible again, but graphics cards never truly came down from their inflated crypto mining prices. So that means consoles are just getting more expensive and everybody is losing.

So they got cheaper then? They way I've always heard it is that you could always build a PC with better specs for the same price.