yea idk if used cars or rent are good comparisons.
I mean, this was also before video cards cost as much as some used cars or more than a month’s rent for some people.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
4090 MSRP: $1,599
Rent for a 3 bedroom in a nearby town: $1,495/month
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For only 300 more I have a mortgage on a 2000sq foot home in a large American city….
I have a 6900xt because I got a promotion recently and wanted to treat myself to get off the r9-300 series finally but it wasn’t 1600, I think I paid 1100
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
1,500 gets you a closer with a window around me. Prices are fucked.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Funny enough I picked one hell of a deal to be close-ish
It’s averaging 1.9 to 2k round here for a 1bdrm
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
I’m not saying it’s not an expensive hobby, it is. PC gaming on ultra is an incredibly expensive hobby. But that’s the price of the hobby. Saying that a game isn’t optimized because it doesn’t run ultra settings on hardware that came out 4+ years ago is nothing new, and to me it’s a weird thing to demand. If you want ultra, you pay for ultra prices. If you don’t want to/can’t, that’s 100% acceptable, but then just be content to play on High settings, maybe 1080p.
If PC gaming is too expensive in general that’s why consoles exist. You get a pretty great experience on a piece of hardware that’s only a few hundred dollars.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PC gaming didn’t used to be THIS expensive.
You could build an entire machine for the cost of a 4090.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
4090 is definitely nuts, but with inflation the 4080 is right about on par. As usual team red very close in comparison for a much lower cost. You don’t have to constantly run the highest of the high level to get those sweet graphics, but it’s about personal taste. Personally it’s not for me paying the 40% more for a 10% jump in graphics, but every 2-3 generations is when I usually step back and reanalyze. Tbh usually it’s a game like starfield that makes me think if I should get a new one. Runs great for now though, probably have at least 1 hopefully 2 more generations before I upgrade again
ono@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
On par with the competing product? Sure. On par with inflation? Not by a long shot. GPU prices tripled a couple years back. Inflation accounted for only a small fraction of that. They come down somewhat since then, but nowhere close to where they should be even with inflation.
Indeed. Both brands being overpriced doesn’t make them any less overpriced. Cryptocurrency and scalping may be mostly gone now, but corporate greed persists.
That’s not Todd Howard’s fault, but when he makes a snarky comment expecting everyone to cough up that kind of money to play his game, it’s more than a little tone deaf.
nunchuk@lemmy.bigsecretwebsite.net 1 year ago
Adjusted for inflation in the US, the 1080 ti cost only $876 in today’s money when it came out. The 4080 launched at $1231 in today’s money. You are simply incorrect
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t know if you noticed, but everything became more expensive in the last year. Food, housing, etc, it’s called inflation and PC parts aren’t immune.