Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The ones with powerful GPUs cost as much as a PS5 Pro.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    DeskMini, all in all about $300. Runs almost every game in medium graphics on 3440x1440, if you don’t need stupidly high fps. This was bought 3 years ago.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Go on then. Which ones.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have a Ryzen 7 2700G in my DeskMini, but that one is 2 (?) generations ago. Still, can play almost all games in 3440x1440 at medium settings.

        In case you have seen my “string and tape” case mod to fit the cooler, that was done to support Turbo for video recoding. Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 fits nicely.

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      • treyf711@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Knowing the usefulness that we’ve gotten at our house out of having them, I would probably say if I didn’t have the PS5 I would get a steam deck at this point. A refurbished one from valve when they’re on sale would be my pick. Plus, it works on my 20 year catalog of games.

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• YouAreLiterallyAnNPC@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That sounds kind of like a console, no?

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  By decent you meant significantly worse than console gaming performance though.

  Consoles are still the king for values in gaming, even with their increasing prices.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interesting point. Then you understand why Apple is making moves to try to be a real player in gaming.

  All three of us see how gaming performance is plateauing across various hardware types to the point that a modern game can run on a wide range of hardware. With settings changes to scale across the hardware, of course.

  Or are you going to be a jerk and claim it’s only mini pcs that get this benefit. Not consoles, not VR headsets, not macs, not Linux laptops.

  There really is a situation going on where there is is large body of hardware in a similar place on the performance curve in a way that wasn’t always true in the past when major performance gains were made every few years. When various platforms were on very different and less interoperable hardware architectures, etc.

  The Steam Deck’s success proves my point, and your point alone.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can confirm. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you mostly play indie games, though.

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