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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.
Not to mention in 5 years you can replace one part on the pc and increase performance.
You don't need to upgrade every part every time
While this is technically true, in practice I've found there's always something the old PC is missing, tech wise.
Socket change. Ram version change. New version of PCIe.
Effectively you need to do mobo/cpu/ram all together.
The only other components are GPU and storage, which I agree are generally transferable, but depending on age you may want to upgrade too.
I guess PSU but that is thankfully something you almost never need to upgrade, unless your new GPU sucks down a lot more watts.
Maybe if I had an AM5 board I would be in a better state, but currently on AM4 so my upgrade paths are limited (already on a 5000 series chip).
My current PC was at the end of AM4 from AMD, and now it's nearing end of AM5.
I gotta break out of this cycle if I can wait until am6, I think I can though.
Yes but, in practice some of these things don't matter much at all. At that point you're looking at the performance stack a bit too deeply.
Look at the bigger picture. For example - an RTX 4090 can perform about as well on PCIe 3.0 as it does on 4.0 in most tasks that you'd likely use it for.
You don't have to care about some of these things as much as you used to before. Sometimes you can get too deep into hunting the best version of your system before you realize that it really doesn't make that much of a difference.
You can still do CPU+MOBO (maybe ram), and few years later GPU. Upgraded GPU a few years ago, waiting for the refresh of 3D for mono,CPU and ram.
Drives I have the same, same as tower and fans. might put the PSU to rest.
Forgot about CPU cooler. That might need change.
Looks at steam library with dozens of unplayed games purchased on sale
That you obtained for the cost of like 3 full priced ps5 games 🤣
Some steam games I have gotten for as little as 0.25 to 0.50 before. I'm fine with unplayed games. Or some games I try out for a few hours and move on. Ehh, it's fine. But I almost am never spending dozens of dollars, much less full price. Hell, a lot of games are on discount on sites like Fanatical before they even launch.
I have also noticed PC gets patches much more quickly and often than console games. So when that matters, it's kind of nice.
Most recently, a party-based single player game I love on its PC port has an experimental co-op built in which has been a ton of fun, and that's just not happening on the console versions.