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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
&gt; Gotta love corporations going after the short term quarterly financial reports.

It frustrates me to see corporations constantly do this and never learn. Young gamers eventually become adult gamers with money for enthusiast hardware. 

My first "real" PC was an AMD Radeon 6870 that cost me $220 when I was 16 years old. The entire build must have cost me like $600 max and it got me enthusiast-level performance (for the time). Now I'm 27 and have disposable income that I can blow on enthusiast hardware. If a decent GPU back then had cost more than my entire fucking PC, I never would have gotten into PC gaming, and never would have become an adult willing to blow disposable income on enthusiast hardware.

So when today gamers see that they can spend $500 (or hell even less if they buy used) on an Xbox Series X and get roughly the equivalent of a 6650 XT (conservatively) or realistically a 6700 XT, the value proposition of a PC goes out the window. Why spend $300-$500 on a GPU when you can get a console with equal graphics performance for $500?
gpt
Exactly, what 16 year old is gonna get mom and dad to drop $799 MSRP (good luck finding it). The kids that actually have jobs and want to game are just going to get a console.