M8, that’s the wrong argument, you CANNOT do it for 400€-500€. I get that a PC is much more versatile, but as a turnkey solution, the console or steamdeck are downright unbeatable in value right now. GPUs cost stupid money and the PS5 still holds its own against a 6700XT(7700)/4060ti, plus it has resume play like the deck…
I use a PC (9070XT is a wonderful card) but I’m privileged. If I weren’t, I’d be buying a PS5 or a Steamdeck. You can get used PS5 disks for 10-20€, you don’t need to pay to play FTP games online and don’t need internet to play your used disks. It’s overall a far superior option unless your budget is above 1000€ or you have some kind of malformation that only let’s you play with KBM.
The PS5+used games or a Steamdeck in case you already have a library on steam are downright the only smart money options nowadays in the EU.
If you have 1000€ to burn, then you can get a pretty good machine with AM4 and RDNA3 for a reasonable price (7800xt are going for not stupid money normally). I’d still wait for the 9060 to get FSR4 and slap bazzite on a HTPC build and call it a day.
Unbeatable in value… Ehh, really depends what you want to do with it. I don’t care about consoles so I will just disregard them entirely, they don’t run a normal Linux distro.
Steamdeck is great, sure. But if you were looking for low spec desktop gaming you could look at some low spec mini PCs for about half the cost of the steamdeck. You would be able to run a vast amount of games on it just fine. Old hardware might cost less used but will most likely end up costing more in power consumption.
M8, that’s the wrong argument, you CANNOT do it for 400€-500€. I get that a PC is much more versatile, but as a turnkey solution, the console or steamdeck are downright unbeatable in value right now. GPUs cost stupid money and the PS5 still holds its own against a 6700XT(7700)/4060ti, plus it has resume play like the deck…
I use a PC (9070XT is a wonderful card) but I’m privileged. If I weren’t, I’d be buying a PS5 or a Steamdeck. You can get used PS5 disks for 10-20€, you don’t need to pay to play FTP games online and don’t need internet to play your used disks. It’s overall a far superior option unless your budget is above 1000€ or you have some kind of malformation that only let’s you play with KBM.
The PS5+used games or a Steamdeck in case you already have a library on steam are downright the only smart money options nowadays in the EU.
If you have 1000€ to burn, then you can get a pretty good machine with AM4 and RDNA3 for a reasonable price (7800xt are going for not stupid money normally). I’d still wait for the 9060 to get FSR4 and slap bazzite on a HTPC build and call it a day.
Unbeatable in value… Ehh, really depends what you want to do with it. I don’t care about consoles so I will just disregard them entirely, they don’t run a normal Linux distro.
Steamdeck is great, sure. But if you were looking for low spec desktop gaming you could look at some low spec mini PCs for about half the cost of the steamdeck. You would be able to run a vast amount of games on it just fine. Old hardware might cost less used but will most likely end up costing more in power consumption.