• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    People are less likely to own a TV already these days though than they used to be so the price calculation for consoles favors them a lot less if you take that into account. Not to mention that console games tend to be more expensive than PC games, especially indie PC games now that triple A is more of a warning label than an indicator of quality.

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      2 days ago

      People have been buying Madden and Call Of Duty reliably for decades now. Doesn’t matter if they’re good or cheap, there are people who identify as “a person who buys Madden and Call Of Duty.”

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        2 days ago

        Those are individual games though, console games are just much more expensive on average. There isn’t as much available on the cheaper end of the market.

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            1 day ago

            Probably very few among the people who carefully weighed which system gives them the better bang for their buck.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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              1 day ago

              Nah, a lot of people just buy whatever their friends have, and only own a handful of games (Madden, FIFA, etc) and just don’t think about it.

              Look at how many people can’t afford the cars they own and roll negative equity into the next one, or look at how much credit card debt people have on average. People just buy without thinking too much.

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                1 day ago

                Yeah, to rephrase my post the other way around, buying a console and just a few games is only really possible because it is carried by people who don’t carefully weigh if that is a financially sound decision.