One of the very last bang for the buck slot GPUS from before the insane covid meltdown that distorted the parts market and prices. Steam polling yet again has the most common video cards as the nvidia 1650. The whole obscene always upgrading and have to chase the expensive stuff is not necessary or frankly sane. If anything, check to see what old cool stuff is still around, being supported, and being played.įor instance, you can still find return to castle wolfenstein: enemy territory multiplayer servers. don't let yourself get sucked into the utterly retarded cycle of must have the latest greatest newest. If you pay attention, you buy the most forwards-compatable motherboard you can reasonably get, that allows you to take those steps upwards. Normally, that works out as a video card upgrade. Until you run into something you want to do that you can't with your current rig. You decide what you want to do that you can't do with your current rig, and build to play that. You don't upgrade a gaming pc every few months.

Nintendo nails the “I just want to have fun” aspect. Hit button, play.īut wife and I play Zelda every day. I haven’t touched my pc, Xbox or ps5 in months.īut wife and I play Zelda every day. Switch and Zelda tears of the kingdom enters the chat. Sony/nintendo/MS have made their game consoles a miserable experience and have turned their players into serfs. and honestly, most of those don't stay exclusive. The only thing you give up that 'consoles' have is console exclusives. You can run virtually ALL the old video game consoles in emulators AND play online with/against friends, and the settings let you make the graphics look a lot better.

Come home, drop in your physical media, push the on button, and play with your friends who are there. I don't see any upside to todays 'consoles.' They have lost what was good and compelling about consoles - simplicity, and fun. Plus, the modding scene for PCs is far more robust. PC's come with their own problems, but you can, if you do your reading and persist, fix a lot if not most of those problems. Games that don't require online to run that force you to be online and yet, because it's locked down, you can't meaningfully work around and fix that crap.

The company pushes down updates that break your ability to do what you want witht he hardware and software in the console that you bought and are supposed to own. They have to be connected online to meaningfully use. Stop and think about it you have to create a user account to use them.

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