They're still walled gardens, and all of those features they come with are the feautures you're stuck with, which is the antithesis of the PC experience.
The only reason they're specced so high at affordable prices is because they are mass produced with exclusive hardware and sold at a massive loss. The profit comes from software publishing deals, services, and collected data.
It doesn't matter why they are cheap to buy, that's completely irrelevant. The fact is you get an absolute beast of a gaming machine for 500 bucks. Saying an absolute beast is not an exaggeration either, both the ps5 and series x are impressive by any standards.
Bottom line is if you just plan on primarily gaming it makes so much more sense to buy one of these new consoles.
If you need a PC for normal everyday use it still makes so much more sense to buy an Xbox series x and a mid range or inexpensive laptop.
You're still going to only be in half the price of what you would spend to build something equivalent in PC.
You can't really refute any of this stuff I'm saying. Building a $1,000 gaming PC right now is a terrible move, it will be crap if you can even find a GPU.
He
Doesn't
Want
A
Console
So here's what he can do, buy some cheaper, less powerful parts to just get a computer together and then upgrade parts as you can
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