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[โ€“] jnod4@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but you don't pay monthly for internet access and you have tens of thousands more of pc exclusives

[โ€“] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

PS Plus is $80 a year for the basic and $160 a year for the ultra premium with like 300+ games. And they give you 3 free games a month even on basic. And if you buy a game, you can share the game with a friend and play online together with the same copy at the same time. With steam sharing one of you has to be offline on that game.

At $600 for the system and $80 a year that's going to take over 6 and a half years before you hit the $1000 mark.

I have PC and PS5 and am in the middle of making cheaper PCs to get my friends to finally jump ship from PS's BS and I can tell you absolutely with 100 percent certainty that the guy is right. It is not cheaper. It is way more expensive.

Not sure why he got down voted for that truth.

I'm resorting to making BC 250 builds for my friends (basically will pay a subscription cost through electric now but progress is progress) and it still isn't cheaper for what you get with PlayStation.

But fuck them though killing off physical and throwing their weight behind ESA to try and make hosting your own game servers illegal and just years of anti consumer bullshit has made me intent on leaving them for good after this year.