Consume Product

>no disk drive

>pro console doesn't come with a pro controller

>NO FUCKING GAMES

literally only the goyest of soyim buy coon-soles these days

Under the hood it's just a cheap PC running a OS based on FreeBSD with games powered by OpenGL.Xbox on the other hand is also just a cheap PC, running Windows with a different UI and games compiled for DirectX.

Both appears o bribe or threaten game developers to get games exclusive for their specific platforms, for if the developers had any balls they could easily just release their games for GNU+Linux and everyone would play on an actual cheap PC, that is a lot cheaper than these consoles without any (((spyware))) or (((DRM))).

The 30th Anniversary Edition is even more expensive. It will be over $1000 retail. Sony has become Apple.

I don't understand the point of consoles anymore. They made sense when it was financially unfeasible for every home to have a mainframe computer. After the mid 2000s, why continue?

For $700 you can build yourself a decent, upgradable PC... that will stand vertically.

From my limited knowledge : pick a motherboard that takes DDR5 RAM ( Maby cheapt-out with 8GB and see if it works for the games you want ; you can upgrade that to 16GB+ very easily later ), and avoid Intel's CPUs because 13th and 14th gens have oxydation, stability, performance and longevity problems.

I don't know much about GPUs ( graphic card ) beyond that 8GB of VRAM is a ''soft minimum'' for demanding games, and they can use more than 8GB VRAM on higher setting.

Youtube and the Internet are full of tutorials and make sure all your parts are compatible. I would try building one if I had money to waste ( I already have a functional laptop that run some casual games ).

Before buying my laptop, I tried a prebuilt desktop, and it was blasting loud fans at idle. I noped out and refunded it.

If I'm paying more for a prebuilt, it's because I want it to work when I power it on.

My favorite Sony bullshit moment was when Xbox announced that you couldn't share games anymore. Sony released a commercial showing how to share games on a Playstation by just handing someone the disc.

In reality Sony intended to lock their games down too, but saw the backlash, so faked the ad and put their plans on hold for like six months and then just did what Microsoft did anyway.