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I needed a good laugh today. Cheers, Valve. Pure ewaste and nothing more.
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The hard-core console buyers won't be enough in number to make this a success.
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Scalpers can have this one
Still plenty of people with money who are willing to splash out. Hard-core console buyers or not.
Watch the website crash soon as it goes live.
At that price with the controller I would have bought one for the living room TV to try to play through my backlog.
Well exactly. It would be about convenience but at over a grand it's too expensive for that.
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I did a full rebuild from AM4 to AM5 not so long ago, and I didn't spend a whole lot more than the most expensive version, but that's with a 9070XT, and £200 on new mouse and keyboard, and a £130 case.
Wowzers, this is so bad, hardware is totally screwed now it seems. I'm glad I upgraded now, even though it was through gritted teeth, and I didnlt reaaaaaalllllyyyy need to but, I also couldnlt risk waiting to be priced out altogether.
This all sucks so much, and we all know the eventual endgame here.
Wowzers, this is so bad, hardware is totally screwed now it seems. I'm glad I upgraded now, even though it was through gritted teeth, and I didnlt reaaaaaalllllyyyy need to but, I also couldnlt risk waiting to be priced out altogether.
This all sucks so much, and we all know the eventual endgame here.
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Over £900 with the controller…I’ll pass. Going to stick with my SD and PS5.
DoA. Barely PS5 performance so it would get melted by the Pro.
Even with a very limited budget, you're probably better off building something custom. If you're just playing indie games then maybe it's ok as you get a much larger games library via PC.
Even with a very limited budget, you're probably better off building something custom. If you're just playing indie games then maybe it's ok as you get a much larger games library via PC.
Not saying the initial batch won't sell out, just that it won't go much further than that with those prices.
Not buying it, but with the current prices, £879 (without controller) doesn't seem awful. I will admit, I've not looked at benchmarks yet (not had time, so those might change it), but with current prices of stuff, £879 seems ok. Not great, not a must buy, but not terrible, 16GB of ddr5 by itself is nearly £200, 512GB ssd is another £80 odd, so nearly £300 will just be memory/storage. Before you add in vram and the rest of it.
Great, no, will I buy, no. But in the current climate, it doesn't seem way out there.
Of course consoles are cheaper, but even without ram nonsense, consoles were always going to be better value, as Sony can make it up by bending you over for online play and bending you over with £150 controllers where the fix for drift is "buy more sticks from us at £20 a pop", Sony also get their piece from any game sold, anywhere. Valve can't do that, open platform and they don't even get anything from Steam keys sold elsewhere.
So not buying it, but it doesn't seem outrageous in the current memory climate.
Great, no, will I buy, no. But in the current climate, it doesn't seem way out there.
Of course consoles are cheaper, but even without ram nonsense, consoles were always going to be better value, as Sony can make it up by bending you over for online play and bending you over with £150 controllers where the fix for drift is "buy more sticks from us at £20 a pop", Sony also get their piece from any game sold, anywhere. Valve can't do that, open platform and they don't even get anything from Steam keys sold elsewhere.
So not buying it, but it doesn't seem outrageous in the current memory climate.
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