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GIBURROWS said:
But for the last 20 years they haven't been as close.
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That was before consoles established decent online shops. Now they have them and they run summer sales and winter sales etc they are way more competitive.

That's why I "these days" because I appreciate it wasn't always like that.

Some examples on Loaded. (prices maybe vary a little on various key sites)

Crimson Desert. £42 on pc. £42.99 on Xbox
Resident Evil requiem. £29.99 on pc £35.99 Xbox
007-first light. £52.99 on pc.. £48.99 on Xbox.
Lego batman legacy of dark knight. £39.49 pc. £42.99 Xbox.

Not too dissimilar really.
 
Same. I'm sure I'll get some buyers remorse once it arrives, until then I'm going to feel all special. Won't be as bad as with the Switch 2 though. Most disappointing console purchase I've made.
 
Hedge said:
That was before consoles established decent online shops. Now they have them and they run summer sales and winter sales etc they are way more competitive.

That's why I "these days" because I appreciate it wasn't always like that.

Some examples on Loaded. (prices maybe vary a little on various key sites)

Crimson Desert. £42 on pc. £42.99 on Xbox
Resident Evil requiem. £29.99 on pc £35.99 Xbox
007-first light. £52.99 on pc.. £48.99 on Xbox.
Lego batman legacy of dark knight. £39.49 pc. £42.99 Xbox.

Not too dissimilar really.
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I get what you're saying and agree to a certain point but I think if a game is console then goes to PC you get that price similarity but if a PC game goes to console I think the price disparity is larger.
 
GIBURROWS said:
I get what you're saying and agree to a certain point but I think if a game is console then goes to PC you get that price similarity but if a PC game goes to console I think the price disparity is larger.
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Thing is. Almost any big game starts on console first. You aren't going to get many games that start on Pc and go on console later. Except for indie cheap games anyway.
 
Got on the reservation list too, think I will purchase as I have a lot of games on steam and don't play enough on the pc these days. 2TB with the controller.
 
Got on the list for a 512Gb without controller here. No biggee tbh because I never got on with the touchpads on the Steamdeck anyway when I had one. Much preferred using the Xbox controller playing docked into a 55 inch LG Oled. A bit low res granted but perfectly acceptable.
The days of being obsessed with fan noise, bios settings, Windows and the general dicking around required with a PC are well and truly behind me.
This little thing will sit on top of my Series X.
Can't wait.
 
Boge said:
Got on the list for a 512Gb without controller here. No biggee tbh because I never got on with the touchpads on the Steamdeck anyway when I had one. Much preferred using the Xbox controller playing docked into a 55 inch LG Oled. A bit low res granted but perfectly acceptable.
The days of being obsessed with fan noise, bios settings, Windows and the general dicking around required with a PC are well and truly behind me.
This little thing will sit on top of my Series X.
Can't wait.
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Blocking the fan?
 
TBH I only bought the steamdeck when Sony started allowing PC users access to their games. The Last of Us , Uncharted etc. I didn't want to go the full PC route again so the steamdeck filled a gap and an itch I had to scratch. SO much so in fact I bought a PS5 afterwards to play TLOU part 2. It didn't last long. Whiney loud fan noise. So I sold it on. I absolutely love my Series X though. It's just a brilliant piece of engineering and runs silently.
Hope I can say the same for the Steam machine.
I am really susceptible to noisy whiney fan noise.
 
All those people saying it's too expensive, it's DOA, etc and here we are. People in this thread put a reservation down with interest to buy one and they will follow through with the purchase because scarcity. While trying to tell us and convince themselves otherwise.

Valve knew exactly what they was doing with the price and plenty are still going for it.
 
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malachi said:
All those people saying it's too expensive, it's DOA, etc and here we are. People in this thread put a reservation down with interest to buy one and they will follow through with the purchase because scarcity. While trying to tell us and convince themselves otherwise.

Valve knew exactly what they was doing with the price and plenty are still going for it.
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People are looking at it from different directions.

The “too expensive” angle is from 6 months ago before the AI poop storm.

The objective angle is what is the market is asking for.

Both are true but the reality is nobody can do anything about it. Although the irony of MS being a big player in the AI race building Data centres and inadvertently shoots their Xbox business in the knee caps is not lost on me.

The scary thing is the projection for Ram and SSD prices will double in the next 12 months is the scary part. This £900 box might seem cheap in Christmas 2027!
 
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