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I cannot recommend strongly enough that everyone grab a backup GPU! Doesn't have to be expensive! Just something that will run modern games. Grab a 7700xt off Facebook marketplace as soon as you can. The price you see on it today is the lowest it will be for at least 6 years. My plan it to get as much AMD raster as I can for $300. It's going to get uglier than anyone can imagine when it comes to hardware prices. This time next year we're probably talking about game streaming services.

 

[Zacfoldor]

And not just GPUs, phones, tablets, PCs, laptops, game consoles.

This is the only hope for PC gaming. If game consoles stay cheap and PC gaming goes way up then the PC gaming revolution will be stopped in its tracks.

If Sony or Nintendo are able to do bulk buying power or eat costs and keep prices cheap for consoles, then what does that do to PC gaming when prices are thru the roof?

Sony is actually lowering their prices this black friday, for example. Would you recommend someone buy a new gaming PC right now or just get a PS5 for cheap on black friday?

Gaming PC brings user mods which is the biggest and best competitive advantage, but there is an upper price limit for entry that will exclude a lot of gamers.

It would be sad if the future of gaming was weak PCs with streaming.