I got really lucky. I bought my PC between the crypto crash, right before the AI uprising.
Buying from Costco is still relatively decent.
I was planning on buying my wife a laptop so we can play games together. Not anymore.
I was also hoping to upgrade my RAM this year, but that’s definitely not happening now.
Honestly I probably just won’t be upgrading for another 5-7years.
Crazy how greed will drive off all business even after the price spike has come down.
It’s a pretty weak argument using a metric without historical numbers then claiming it means something.
It seems reasonable less people would be building a rig with the price crunch, but that survey and this article isn’t making much of a case for the argument besides emotional appeal
If on average a PC gamer build a PC every 5 years (which, IMO, is enough), then roughly 60% will have a PC new enough that they won’t plan to build one in the next two years
Correct, utterly useless. But people take the bait, look at the response even here on far above critical Lemmy users.
As is by design.
Eventually you will fold and buy a tablet with cloud services because that’s it? That’s all that’s left. your pc eventually dies,but they made Linux illegal because it doesn’t do full rectal scans as federally mandated, the Google Probe uses USB-G which is a proprietary standard you can’t get without buying a new dumb terminal by the newly merged Micro-Google-Oracle-DOJ-Palantir-McDonalds, your ISP has finally banned your unauthorized device that doesn’t conform to IPv8, which is designed to make it easier to block domains at a much more fundamental address level.
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Indie game devs looking around thinking, this is my chance for my potato graphics game to take over.
I buy used.
How often does gamers normally build new pc’s? I usually run my builds for 4-6 years, I don’t play a lot of AAA games, but I would not think that I’m in that small a minority. If gamers normally make new builds every 5 year, that fits the finding of 40% considering making a new build in the next 2 years.
I’m also waiting for a price drop. Since this is absurd
At this point my main PC is a ‘classic car’ of gaming. EVGA GTX 1070, z170 mobo, 64GB DDR4 RAM, i7 6700k.
First bitcoin made graphics cards double in price just when I was looking to upgrade my gfx, then a wider crypto wave, tarrifs, then a pandemic, then more tariffs, and then AI made everything rapidly wildly expensive.
My usual upgrade process of “waiting for prices to become reasonable around the 5-6 year mark” has proven to be a bad plan for this period…
Honestly an i7 6700, even the non K variant is still a really good experience for most things still. That’s what the main system I still use most is. Though it has an Overkill GPU in it. I just figured it was a good future proof investment. 9060xt
I’ve been waiting to update my SLI 1080s 32gb i7 from 2018 but with the new chip slots and DDR5 it only really makes sense to wholesale and build new. Now im down to a single 1080 I split the SLI off to build my wife a modest computer and because games dont really support SLI any more. Maybe i cant play new super heavy AAA games but have any of them not been shite lately?
I nicked myself a full PC upgrade in between pandemic and AI and couldn’t have been prouder about my timing. I was rocking a GTX 670 during the crypto craze just waiting for prices to normalise. Felt like I went from the stone age to the space age when I got my 7800xt.
My primary server though… That one was due for an upgrade this spring. It was my old gaming PC, so it has seen better days.
Just 60? Everyone I know has dropped all plans for the foreseeable future. Even those building their first PC.
The other 40% are waiting for the AI bubble to burst
“Hope is just a first step on a road to disappointment”
After one price hike after another for almost a decade soon, roughly since 2017. There is no point to hope anymore, there will either be some new issues or manufactures have just gotten used to the high prices and will not lower those significantly. Even if they do start to bring down prices and AI shit ends, everyone will run to upgrade their rigs and scalpers will take full advantage of it. This is new reality.
Better to just find a new hobby.
Yeah, the hope isn’t dead.
Dont worry, we gotta wait just two more decades and prices will drop.
I mean why build a pc with specs that I could have had years ago for the same price.
For a while now new hardware has been like 10% faster and also 10% more expensive, so they could have saved a lot of R&D time by continuing to manufacture everything from 2020 and added just a couple of new things to the top of the product stack.
40% of gamers: cause I didn’t build it those years ago
