>>546215521>Go check price in local store>Store shows €1679>Scroll to reviews>Review from 2024: >This console really isn't really worth the €750 price, but I guess it's okaykek.Why anyone would buy an x86-'console' anyway already beats me.
>>546215521I remember time when it was below €1000....then come grook named as Sam Altman and ruined it.
>>546215521tl;dr: Gaming will become a rent-seeking service.In practise, your only hope would be that China figures out DDR ram production in the forseeable future to lower the price significantly. "When China enters, prices fall", as some economists put it, except China is easily 4-5 years away from being able to. Their ram-producers are building scale, but it's gonna take them at least that long.Accept paying a fortune for kike-owned Nvidia chips with a killswitch for the next couple of years. Demand's not going down and supply won't improve
>>546215521>TEH NUMBARS!!! SEE TEH NUMBARS!!!!
>>546215521fuck playstation based xbox just announced I can stream gta 6 from an xbox one allowing me to bypass the worst generation of consoles ever.
>>546215521I gave up trying to find one
>verfügbar
>The PC you built for just under €2k last year is now around €3250this market is pretty fucked desu.
>>546215521>hides flagGerman text
>>546216180Scratch that. The PSU and m.2 in that PC have no current prices. The m.2 by itself seems to be €200+, so make that €3500(Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280)
>>546216239Yeah, I didn't understand the point of that either.
>>546215521dude wtf??? i bought one in august on fb marketplace for 250 bucks.
>>546216180They selling here PCs for playing games...only little less than 12000€...I wonder who buying them.
>>546216239>German textyiddish would've been too obvious
>>546216317Europeans hide their flags because they are cowards who want to be critical of america while hiding where they are from
>>546216006Not how that works retard your console is still the bottleneck and now so is your network latency. Dumbass nigger
>>546216397That one wasn't for games though.NAS+Media Server. There's no GPU in it (i5 14600k iGPU used for transcoding), but there is 3*16TB storage in it. And those went from €300 when I bought them to $699 (€635) each.Also 2*16GB DDR5 5600 CL46 which is at insane prices rn. (Over $300 each)
>>546216180considering what you get, that cost is very good compared to the 1980s and 90s when a good PC cost that much.people back then were paying that much for an intel 286 that ran spreadsheets as their main feature.you just need to look up old prices to understand how cheap computing is even with the recent price increases.as a way to understand, a typical PC in the 80s would be $2000. just run it through the inflation calculator then compare what you got then to what you get now.it's $6500 now.
>>546216529Whatever you bastard I never claimed to be a computer scientist I was just stoked thinking I could play gta on the cheap.
>>546215521What the fuck does this even mean? Why post the price in Tajikistani somoni's instead of fucking Roman sestertius or at least Jewish mina like a normal person? Who even understands this backwater bullshit uncivilized denomination?
>>546215897>paying more than $500 for a consolenigger it was always sold for fraction of the price because industry makes money for gamesthe fuck now you pay for game AND consoles
>>546217126You don't have to play dumb, niggerlover. You are dumb.
>>546215521I don't want a ps4 or ps5.I'm happy with my ps1, ps2, and ps3.Also my preloaded minisega and NES/SNES.I'm only missing my Atari XE.
>>546215521i paid 400eur for my ps4 pro. no one is buying a fucking console full of black and brown transexual sony slop for 1500 lmao
does /pol/ even have moderators?90% non political slide slopthey do nothing when shit threads are reported
>>546217580Clearly the chaos here is within acceptable parameters, eat a chode
>>546217364Did you fill out the proper forms and get the proper permit for that insult, you dumb Russian Švejk? Fuck off, Čecháček.
>>546216785In the 80's here in America, people were buying Commodore 64's for 150 bucks to play games. It was the undisputed king of gaming until Commodore fucked itself in the early 90's and pc's started to get serious with games and the 486
Quake and Doom are practically free, what more do you need?
>>546215521That’s the pro version which you really don’t need. The base version is very good and a fraction of the price
>>546218083>people were buying Commodore 64's for 150 bucks to play games$500 todaywould you buy the C64 for $500 as a new console system? disregarding "collectors value"
>>546216785Yeah. I remember getting our first PC in like 96 and my dad paid 3000 guilders for it, which was a lot money. It was a pretty decent PC, but far from top of the line. People also forget that if you were into PC gaming back then you'd have to upgrade your shit literally every year. A PC from 2022 can still play the latest game at decent settings. A PC from 1998 wouldn't even run a game from 2001.
>>546218079I filled out your mom's cunt
China
>>546215521Pogroms
>>546216785Can't compare it to the 80s or 90s man.The standards of computing have grown exponentially.You can put a spare parts rig together for €300 from 13-year old components that will rape every 80s and 90s rig, and if the GPU is new enough to support all of DX12 it might launch Fortnite and other newer games.The fact of the matter is that the RTX 5090 is a €2200 product smuggled for 3,5x the price and sold to idiots for as much as well.It's also not a very well made product (hardware scheduler problem, 12VHPWR melting problem) but that's another issue altogether.The market rate shifted because the supply and demand situation shifted, not because some nerds decided the costs were too low.Besides, you can get Intel processors damned near for free these days, nobody wants them or the boards.
>>546215521I LOVE AMAZON NOW
>>546218280People's wage also had triple the purchasing power, let's stay in the clear.
>>546218311Oh, that reminds me. She said for you to call her. In case you forgot her number is 1-903-683-3421.
>>546215521When you realize video games are an useless waste of time you will save a lot of money for useful stuff
>>546216785>a typical PC in the 80s would be $2000$5,706.02 todayWould you pay that for a 286? I could still game classics with the 64 as I have one and do.
>2026>playing the vidya jew
>>546218286>A PC from 1998 wouldn't even run a game from 2001.Moore's Law is dead. >This principle has historically dictated the pace of the digital revolution, enabling computing power to become faster, smaller, and more cost-effective over time.what we are seeing now is mission creep. they have to create reasons to keep the prices up. hence the AI, CBDC, surveillance infrastructure. all government funded to prop it all up.in reality the PS5 pro should be $400 or less. so I'll bring up the elephant in the room you all did not see, but feel it now thanks to trickle down socialism. there is a lag to the effects of massive instant money printing. the institutions are still spending their windfall of covid money today.
>>546215820I had a coworker ask me to do some PC work, and in the end I ended up with a rebuilt Dell Vostro 3550 with 6GB of RAM. why would I spend $1500 on console slop?
>>546218799what gets me is that consoles don't have productivity software even though they allow keyboard and mouse connection. why not promote using that hardware to get word processing and spreadsheets into obviously lower class homes? >I know why
>>546215934China has already figured it out. But Money has a worldwide meaning.
>>546215521stop being a console poor
>>546215521Check the price on Amazon Israel
>>546215521>What are the political implications of this?that anons will stop being niggers, wasting their precious time in artificial worlds, and instead read the great Western Canon to maximize their potential in the real world
>>546215521>Paying €1488 to preserve a future for Sony.
>Dumb enough to not secure a PS5 Pro or at least a PS5 knowing GTA VI is coming this genYou deserve to suffer.
a reminder to kids building a gaming PC todayuse a SATA drive for your C: drive and your system. then add your NVME drive and make it your D: drive, or whatever.your OS does not need NVME speed. 500MB/s is crazy speed for an OS.you don't need a big SATA drive since you will be installing all of your software over on the NVME drive. save a few dollars
>>546215521I don't read hitler nazi, English please
Gamers voted for this because Dragon Age had trannies o algo.
My 9 year old desktop will ride for as long as it can, I refuse to pay any of these prices for consoles or PC parts.
>>546215521Neets getting a life.
>>546219238retard
>>546218083The C64 was the best mid-80's home computer but between that and early PCs was the Amiga 500 and later 1200 in the late 80's and early 90's. Home computers like those, and ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC 464, MSX, Atari ST etc. were much more popular in Europe than in the US. IBM PCs were just too expensive and lacking in fun software/games for the longest time, and people didn't need $4000 spreadsheet machines in their homes. I know some hardcore Amiga nerds who refused to buy into PC or Mac until the 2000's, and they still tinker and upgrade their Amigas to this day with all kinds of crazy expansion boards, co-processors, Warp cards, RTG, Pi Storm, you name it.
>>546216180literally buy memory stock now and sell later to subsidize your purchase.
>>546215521i bought a ps5 in like 2023. i haven't turned it on since then because elden ring sucked. so did ff16. games are gay just like you.
>>546220851But I got mine already.
>>546215521LMFAO, and it has the equivilant of a 2080 video card in it. Pathetic.I only play on PC. My last build was in 2018 and I can literally play every game that comes out in 4k and at 120FPS.Cyberpunk, Stalker, Zelda Remake (emulated), and yes even when GTA 6 comes out.
>>546223712>My last build was in 2018this must be trollingdid you even have gtx cards at that time
>>546215521I can actually get that piece of shit cheaper here.
Last weekend my NVME drive died despite having relatively light writing cycles, some issue with the controller or whatever most likely. I looked up what it would cost to buy a new drive of the same specs, and what I paid ~120 for a couple of years ago is 480 dollars now. Thank god I found out it was surprisingly still under warranty, so they accepted the RMA and are shipping me a replacement now.I half expected them to just issue a refund for the 120 dollars and then force me to buy my own replacement at 4x markup...The bad news is I don't think I'll ever be able to upgrade my PC hardware ever again. The good news is that there basically aren't any modern vidya worth playing anyway so even years from now when my PC is not sufficient to play new stuff, it really won't matter
>>546216785A typical PC in 1989 was ~5,000 Deutsche Mark or 10,000 €uro in todays fake money.That's what I paid for a 386DX + kb&m, monitor, printer, DR-DOS in Goymoney.
>>546215521I bought a pro new for $650 last year
>>546217392I miss my Panasonic 3DO and Sega Dreamcast...
Damn... I bought one for 520 right when it came out.
>>546215897Genuinely why are they just not making more RAM?Like these increase prices skyrocket margins and allow for creating more equipment for production so why the fuck aren't they? or did they and they are just keeping the prices artificially inflated?
>>546217580questions of who has control of the most powerful tech humans have ever devised and whether the commoner has access to it is political, believe it or not.
>>546225241Isn't it due to semiconductors? They're made by like one or two companies only and all the future stock is already preordered, leaving us to deal with the hikes.
>>546224381I got a backup SSD a little before the AI shit hit so I'm good there. Just have to hope the rest of my stuff holds out. While most new vidya is just OK at best there are a few I'd like to play but I'm content with the heap of old games, mods, fan patches, recomps etc. too. Not to mention films, tv, anime, music, reading.
>>546215521>costs over a thousand dollars>looks like shit
>>546215521Trump will forever be retarded for trying to pull off a nationalist and protectionist agenda with the biggest billionaire class of any presidential cabinet. You can't continue wanting a consoomerist culture while also deliberately raising prices
>>546218448>Besides, you can get Intel processors damned near for free these daysTrvke. An i3 costs the same as a sandwich in Japan.
>>546215521You have to go outside.
>>546224103>this must be trolling>did you even have gtx cards at that timeHe could of upgraded GPU since then, and CPU if he was on AM4 to like a 5800x3d or higher core cpu.Those AM4 Vermeer CPU's are like 30% of CPU sales on amazon still to this day because ram is so expensive.
