![]() These span genres, from shooters ( Unreal Tournament, Quake Champions) to RPGs ( Tyranny, Mount & Blade II) to…I don’t even know ( Duskers, Factorio). There are hundreds of games each year that make a name for themselves on PCs and never make it onto consoles. It’s not all plodding strategy games though. I think these incremental box upgrades are the new norm. ![]() Stagger them and you’ll end up spending the same or less than if you bought a new console every three or four years.Īgain, I’m not sure whether we’ll see another iteration of the PS4/Xbox One in a few years. You could easily stick to a budget build with as-needed upgrades and be totally fine for a long, long time, especially if your goal is only to stay ahead of consoles. Case? RAM? Power supply? Fans? Hard drives? All surprisingly cheap stuff you’ll carry in perpetuity, build to build, replacing only when absolutely necessary. If you’re a budget gamer, you can probably run the same processor for up to six years, and the same graphics card for four to five years. ![]() The PC is admittedly more expensive up front, but your upgrade path later is markedly easier. ![]() You can’t just plop Microsoft’s powerful new Scorpio processor into your Xbox One. You throw your old PS4 on Craigslist and buy a new one. You don’t crack open the PlayStation 4, shove a new GPU in it, then fire it back up. ![]()
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