>PC gaming is way more expensive than it was back then
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>What went wrong?
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>newbie didn't know what PC gaming was like in the 90s and thinks it's the most expensive it has been
Go back to r/pcmasterrace
The thung that made it expensive in the 90s is how fast your equipment would become obsolete. If I went back to 1999 me and told them in 2022 I had a desktop built in 2013 with a graphics card from 2016 that could still run any game I would have laughed so hard at the absurdity I would die.
>If I went back to 1999 me and told them in 2022 I had a desktop built in 2013 with a graphics card from 2016
I mean yeah, considering that the very first Nvidia card was sold in Q4 of 1999. 1999 you would be pretty damned confused.
>considering that the very first Nvidia card was sold in Q4 of 1999
Not just Nvidia card. That was the first GPU period. The GeForce 256. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_256
That's $1100 adjusted for inflation. As far as prebuilts go, that's about right today.
Baldur's Gate II was literally $90 when it came out in 2000. Adjusted for inflation that comes out to around $150. When was the last time you payed that much for a game?
Rona
War
normalgays living more and more in a virtual environment
so those things are becoming necessities, it's the new normal, we don't need cars anymore, you can tap things on your phone and get restaurant food delivered, so now a gaming PC can cost as much as a used car, it's the new normal
Inflation and levels of greed so insanely high that it makes one think that maybe hardcore communists (I mean actual ones not identity gays) have a point about lining up bourgeoisie scum in front of a firing squad.
That's an office machine without a GPU.
Oh sorry, back then they were calld graphics accelerators.
>op doesn't know the meaning of inflation
>what is inflation
>$600 is $1000 today
>shitty Pentium 4 prebuilt with no gpu
how do you think this is a good deal?
PC gaming has always been expensive if you wanted a decent setup, you're probably too young to remember but look up SLI so add 2x to any old GPU price then add in inflation to it. The single period that PC gaming was a value was when SLI lost traction and single GPUs were powerful enough to not need it when the 1000 series came out.
Because you get it all
>3D accelerator not included
enjoy your jazz jackrabbit demo, bro.
Back then 600 dollars could buy you enough food to last almost a year.
>he thinks he will play anything on that PC
It's more expensive because they know morons will open their wallet no matter how badly they get ripped off. Worst part is how they insist on pushing graphics even though we're long past the point of meaningful returns.
Also
>babby doesn't know what inflation is
moron.
You could spend $600 on a prebuilt today and even though it would be a shitbox by modern standards it would still blow that 90s computer out of the fricking water.
Oh wait.
>Pentium 4
Okay early 00s computer but everything else stands.
>no gpu
>stores trying to empty their crt stashes
I was born in 1992 and still don't know what a mail-in-rebate is
You get a coupon. You mail it in an envelope and it releases mustard gas.
You buy the item at retail price then mail in proof of purchase to the manufacturer and they send you a check for the rebate amount.
It’s slow as shit and they’re banking on most customers being too lazy to do it.
You get a rebate form that you fill out and attach your proof of purchase and send it to the company. They send you a check like 2 months later.
It was a way to advertise a lower amount. They counted on people being too lazy to fill out the form and mail it in.
Are you me, reddit spacing bro?
>going on reddit frequently enough to even recognize spacing habits
>pentium 4 with igpu on northbridge chipset
Yea.. no.
$600 in 2002 is $1000 in 2023 adjusted for inflation. Not really cheap for a cheapo Dell with a 17'' monitor.
the only thing that really shot up in price are GPU's
because during the whole crypto wave desperate gamers have shown they pay almost anything for a decent GPU
and now GPU companies are so used to those inflated prices that they can't go back
That wasn't a gaming pc, that was a home desktop. I know because I had one and had to get new graphics cards, etc. It was my first "build".
Consoles are now the better bang for buck
He's right though
>$3000 for a hot and loud box that plays unoptimized console ports
>$3000
Are you morons buying Alienware or something?
>plays unoptimized console ports
Sounds like your taste is shit, what's the matter little feeler??
>PC literally costs over 9000 dollars XD
>I'm-I mean he's right though
Also why are consolegays so adamant about that $3000 number? It's literally always $3000
only 7 years ago i paid $220 for a 970
It feels weird that I spent like $700-800 on a 1080ti in 2017. I thought it was outrageous at the time, but I wanted a fancy liquid cooled once since I wanted to experiment with having my PC mine crypto in my spare time. I mined about $700 ($1280 today)of crypto over a few months before I stopped since I got keeping track of how to properly report the income for taxes since I'm a moron who wanted to be goody two-shoes about that. Now 700-800 would be a fricking steal for a flagship card.
>3 years ago
>800€ got me a top of the line GPU
>today
>it's barelly enough for a previous gen mid range
i wonder how bad nvidia is kicking themselves for not jacking prices up 5 years ago. the 4090 has proven that there are enough people who will pay any dollar amount for the flagship card
lmao. That PC wouldn't have an AGP slot. It would be completely reliant on IGP, and you know nothing about early 2000s era IGPs. They sucked absolute ass. I suffered from SiS savagery. SUFFERED.
It’s a bit ridiculous
>no pop tarts
Ganker has fallen far, anon... we are alone here amongst the zoomers and election boomers.
>election boomers
6 years doesn't make you not a newbie
Try 18.
Nobody believes you when you say you're an origingay anon. Mainly because nobody who's browsing this site even has the faintest idea what oldskool Ganker is.
That's because 90% of this place wasn't born yet when I started browsing Ganker. 🙂
Especially you.
Not the anon you were replying to, but 2006 was a wild time. Never thought I’d be browsing this site for the next 16 years…
17, anon, 17.
Oh frick you’re right. Where has the time gone?
Why would my pc come with food
take inflation into account, but yes, consoles are now cheaper while computers are going the other way
>Muh inflation chuds
Frick off, you can still get a comparable modern office PC like ops pic for around the same price, and you'll be able to play all the steam indie shit on it. That's the equivalent of having that PC and playing all the DOS games it could handle.
You wanna play Quake 3? You're gonna need $500 for a GeForce 3. Today's equivalent is a 3070. Anything beyond that is a Quadro for suckers.
You can build a $600 PC that can play your latest AAA goyslop at 1080p and get well over 60 FPS.
>steam indies
lol, lmao even
>PC is now twice as expensive
>has 100 thousand times higher computing power
where is the problem exactly?
Comparatively speaking; a modern PC in that price range would be more capable than the PCs in that price range were back then. Integrated graphics are at least capable of passable 3D acceleration. That Dell would have struggled with stuff like Summoner, or Neverwinter Nights.
Modern integrated graphics are capable of passable 3D acceleration, I should say.
they had better games too.
I remember when 512mb of ram was over 200$
Black person, DIMMs used to go for $800+ a pop.
>$600 in early 2000's money for a shitty Pentium 4 housefire with no GPU
In what world is that a good deal?
Not only would it not have a GPU, it likely wouldn't have an AGP slot, either. It would have a -single- PCI slot, but PCI GPUs were fricking garbage. You could get a PCI GPU with like 128MB of RAM and it would run about the same as a 16MB TNT card would in an AGP slot.
I tried to help a buddy of mine who had a similar PC to the OP's get upgraded, only to discover that it was all proprietary Dell israelitery inside.
>my Optiplex SFF's PCIe ports had a max voltage of around 50W instead of 75 like it normally does
>upgrading the proprietary PSU was impossible
>PSU was in the way of the only available PCIe slot so only single slot half-length cards could fit inside
And that's why I was stuck with a GT 1030 for vidya for nearly a year. Frick Dell.
You can't play shit on that Pc moron. You could hardly browse the internets with it.
>t.zoomer
>You can't play shit on that Pc moron
PC gaming was only ever cheap in the time between the PS3 and PS4. You could build a rig that was better than PS4 at nearly the same price as it because the CPUs in them were such a joke. Any time before then or after then you were paying much more for better than console specs.
I know this place is filled with a bunch of moronic zoomers, but that PC isn't even from the 90s like everyone is saying.
Everyone had these things around 2003 or something. They obviously weren't gaming PCs, but they actually did a great job for things like Command and Conquer Generals, Sims, etc. and would get you on chatrooms, downloading on Kazaa, and all the new digital things most people want to do.
Also, the biggest difference now is GPU prices. Back then it felt like you could stay modern forever spending like $200. Cutting edge games, resolutions and all. Nowadays upgrading is exciting for fps but also pretty depressing. It feels like prices keep increasing and we just keep getting less and less innovation.
My Acer Predator Helios 300 that has a 12th generation Intel i9 processor, Nvidia RTX 3070Ti, 1440p display with a 240 Hz refresh rate, 32 GB DDR5 RAM, and 1TB SSD storage (will upgrade) only cost me $2300
>Shitty Pentium 4 pre-built with integrated graphics that would have trouble running Counter-Strike 1.6 and Runescape on high details
>0 hope of running new games at the time like Half-Life 2 or Doom 3
>$600+tax+tip+dealing with rebates
Did you really use this as a "good price" example, you fricking zoomer?
At least pick something from the ~2007 era where you could get a flagship performance 8800GT for $300
We were all supposed to die sometime in the late 2000s but it all just kept going.
I built a pc but now I can't play with my friends who are all on console