A PS5 currently costs less than £300. I can’t even get 32GB of RAM for that, let alone a GPU or any of the other parts.

PC gaming is dead for now. The only affordable way is Steam Decks and similar.

I’ve got to be honest, the price of a game is probably the least important factor on whether I make a full price purchase.

I’m not going to rush out and buy something I’ve no real interest in. I can count on one hand the number I’ve made this generation. On PS2 I’d be grabbing something every week or two, but now I just can’t get excited for the latest and greatest updates on old formulas. Half the time I buy just to encourage them to make more games like that, like I did with Talos Principle 2, Astro Bot and Split Fiction.

I might pick it up later if I feel inclined, or see it on a decent discount. Like Clair Obscur, that I picked up for £29 in a sale just because I remembered it existed and fancied something to play over the winter holiday.

A good APU solution like in the consoles would be a nice option though. Especially now with RAM prices through the roof again.

If it was going to be cheap, they’d have told us. They’ve prepared us for the worst, and we’ve still got people huffing the copium thinking the Steam Frame will be price-competitive with the Quest 3…

The tolerant left everyone, yucking someone’s yum!

Like a consent button will stop them doing it anyway. Consent is something for little people. They don’t believe in it.

Every time I use that site it says I am unique. So is that good? Surely if I was trackable, it would match me against the previous times I’d been there.

Or maybe the site is just spouting a load of clickbaity nonsense?

You don’t even need AI. Just pay staff less and charge customers more, and give the stolen money to shareholders. Ta-da! That’s the CEO’s job done.

Yeah, I did tweak mine as well tbh. Only by about 5 or so. Makes it a little better, but I do like to be able to see the words.

I just wish we had adaptive brightness for the subs. Big white text is fine until you’re watching a really dark movie and now all you can see is subs at the same brightness as the sun.

Don’t worry. I’ve got a decent surround setup and I still can’t hear shit. They just don’t enunciate like the theatre trained actors of the past.

Still on a 1060. If I want to play something vaguely impressive looking, I’ll use my PS5.

Agreed, the best selling dedicated gaming system of the last few years is the Switch, which has less power than many phones.

So are closed source developers.

12GB seems to be the sweet spot for VRAM, but I suspect the real issue is PC devs not really giving a fuck how hit runs on less than their dev kit.

But then a lot of PC gamers seem to think a game should always run at ultra, no matter how good their rig is.

And I will die on this hill: raytracing has been a colossal waste of everybody’s time and money.

Yes, but mostly because most of the gaming PCs in Steam’s hardware survey are not really gaming PCs but just some piss poor spec laptops that can still run old games. Just having a dedicated GPU puts it in the top half.

The GPU in this is in the 7600 RX range of things. It’s marketed as a 1080p card. Can certainly hit 4K on older titles, and output 4K with upscaling.

Don’t expect miracles from it. It’s PS5 level hardware. But that’s good enough for most of us.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 completely dominated the spring and summer. Nobody would shut up about it. This year’s Baldur’s Gate.

Feels like it’s going to sweep most awards here just for that, and they’ve listed the other games just to be polite and pretend it’s a contest.

I should get around to playing it at some point.

Honestly didn’t think it was as good as the first one.

The truck is a hammer and every single problem is a nail.

Having played a fair bit of it, I can see why it isn’t.

Every award show ever: “Just give most of the prizes to whatever sold the most, with the odd curveball choice to make sure everyone comments to tell us that we are wrong to drive up those engagement metrics”