“Too broke to play PC” is a vanishing argument IMO. People have been saying that forever, to be fair, but given how bad Xbox and Playstation have gotten I don’t anyone who’s actually into gaming purchasing a new one today. Maybe used, that might make sense if it was really cheap.
A budget gaming PC can check out at slightly over 600 now. PcPartPicker has two recommended builds priced right at 600, though honestly there might be even cheaper ways to arrive at that level of perfromance. Compared to 300-400 for the less garbage Xbox, and there’s not much argument to lock someone into the xbox’s ecosystem vs something you can upgrade for much less.
Now I think it’s a different matter if it’s a hand-me-down or given for free. There’s no reason not to do that.
I gave my last console away and got a friend of mine into gaming, then helped them build a decent PC when they actually wanted something new.
Absolutely agreed. I have nothing but love for good old games, and you can’t even buy hardware that was as bad as the stuff that those games premiered on. Well, maybe you can but you’d have to be trying very specifically to get them. There aren’t a lot of fresh athlon x64’s and 7600 gt’s rocking around out there 😉
Also, Minecraft is about 40% of my playtime and can run on basically anything as long as shaders are disabled. I remember hosting smp servers on hardware that was already old at the time, it was still the most fun I’ve had in a game in nearly two decades. Good fucking times honestly, I miss em.
“Too broke to play PC” is a vanishing argument IMO. People have been saying that forever, to be fair, but given how bad Xbox and Playstation have gotten I don’t anyone who’s actually into gaming purchasing a new one today. Maybe used, that might make sense if it was really cheap.
A budget gaming PC can check out at slightly over 600 now. PcPartPicker has two recommended builds priced right at 600, though honestly there might be even cheaper ways to arrive at that level of perfromance. Compared to 300-400 for the less garbage Xbox, and there’s not much argument to lock someone into the xbox’s ecosystem vs something you can upgrade for much less.
Now I think it’s a different matter if it’s a hand-me-down or given for free. There’s no reason not to do that.
I gave my last console away and got a friend of mine into gaming, then helped them build a decent PC when they actually wanted something new.
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Absolutely agreed. I have nothing but love for good old games, and you can’t even buy hardware that was as bad as the stuff that those games premiered on. Well, maybe you can but you’d have to be trying very specifically to get them. There aren’t a lot of fresh athlon x64’s and 7600 gt’s rocking around out there 😉
Also, Minecraft is about 40% of my playtime and can run on basically anything as long as shaders are disabled. I remember hosting smp servers on hardware that was already old at the time, it was still the most fun I’ve had in a game in nearly two decades. Good fucking times honestly, I miss em.
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