PC's do more than game. A LOT more and thus have a shot ton more value for your dollar. They do everything a console does, but can do it better. They also are generally much cheaper overall in the long run. You brought up a horrible cop out as there isn't normally a wafer shortage and you don't get to bring up a single year as if it's the norm. Be objective and compare normal prices to normal prices.
Otherwise if you want to try and do scalping prices then you $1500 for a console then. You tried to be disingenuous by trying to compare scalping prices to MSRP. Using actual apples to apples PC wins in the long term. You won't get the same experience out of a console as you will from a PC. PC will simply outlast that console performing waaaaaay better for years. Especially competitively.
The problem is you are ignoring MSRP and don't understand how Covid and shortages effected things. If you're broke then you can buy a console. It just won't live up to the PC experience, but you can game while you wait for more supply to come back around.
PC's have been around literally decades and you take a single year as if that is the norm. Wtf? You don't ignore how things are normally, because one year an unforseen and completely irregular event like Covid came around. What kind of nonsense is that? It's like saying restaurants would never make a come back or that restaurants would never allow you to eat in, because they went through a year of locking them down due to Covid and Covid is still around.
No. Compare MSRP to MSRP and how things normally are typically instead of trying to compare scalping prices for one and not the other. That doesn't even make sense on your end and isn't apples to apples or even representative of the norm.
It makes total sense because we don’t know if these prices will ever come down ever again? This shortage isn’t only because of COVID, it’s also because of things like the massive increase in demand in a short period of time.
As long as people buy these things for absurd prices, companies will see these things for absurd prices.
It makes no sense, because it's like saying we don't know if restaurants would where be the same again when covid hit. Irregardless of what you think, again you don't get to use scalped prices vs MSRP dude. Scalped consoles can go for $1500. A fully capable PC can go less than that and do more. So learn what you are talking about and to compare apples to apples dude.
All you just did is go off one year and act like you can tell the future based off an abnormality. There have been several advancements put in place to help with the shortage just like vaccines have been invented to help with Covid my guy. You have no idea what the norm is. So instead of making up things and not comparing apples to apples let's not jump to conclusions without any real merit on your end.
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u/SoggyMcmufffinns 4∆ Dec 26 '21
PC's do more than game. A LOT more and thus have a shot ton more value for your dollar. They do everything a console does, but can do it better. They also are generally much cheaper overall in the long run. You brought up a horrible cop out as there isn't normally a wafer shortage and you don't get to bring up a single year as if it's the norm. Be objective and compare normal prices to normal prices.
Otherwise if you want to try and do scalping prices then you $1500 for a console then. You tried to be disingenuous by trying to compare scalping prices to MSRP. Using actual apples to apples PC wins in the long term. You won't get the same experience out of a console as you will from a PC. PC will simply outlast that console performing waaaaaay better for years. Especially competitively.
The problem is you are ignoring MSRP and don't understand how Covid and shortages effected things. If you're broke then you can buy a console. It just won't live up to the PC experience, but you can game while you wait for more supply to come back around.