Many people have, like me, realized that they use their deck more than their main rig.

For the last few years I’ve gone from 1080p to 1440p to 4k to 800p and don’t think my main box will need to get beefier until the next big VR advancement. My machine is already three years old. I may rock it for another three at this pace.

How many of you will be laying off of CPU/GPU upgrades since handheld are so compelling?

  • XLRV
    6·
    1 year ago

    I think I will still upgrade my rig in the future, but with the skyrocketing price of components, I don’t see myself upgrading soon.

    • beached
      4·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, the age of gaming laptops is here IMO. Most gaming laptops come with insanely good specs for $1500-2000 and with the advent of eGPUs you dont sacrifice on AAA game gfx when at home.

      I got a lenovo legion 2 years ago for $1750, and have been able to play every AAA game release on it without issues without an eGPU. Some of them I have had to run one step down from Ultra, but I am still able to play an amazing looking game without problems.

      • XLRV
        2·
        1 year ago

        True, how funny that prebuilt PCs became a better deal lol.

    • Philuu ❄
      3·
      1 year ago

      Depending on the Hardware you’re rocking, you may need not to do so anyway. At least I believe so, I think we’re slowly re-entering the timeline of massively optimizing games to be playable on more systems.

      Again, this is all my assumption, but because of the rising prices of PC Hardware, a huge divide has been made in what is basically possible on an average Gamers hardware. Thus I believe that Developers would be fools to create the most beautiful unoptimized mess for the RTX 5090 TI + Ryzen 9 9800X3D, but focus more on what everyone has to get more sales in.

      • Poopasite1
        4·
        1 year ago

        Hope you’re right. I hate the trend of half-assed releases.

      • XLRV
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve got a good configuration, so I’m not interested in upgrading right now, but even then, the bad optimization of games makes it a bad experience.

        AAA titles released recently are mostly unoptimized messes, I don’t see that changing soon, they rely on things like DLSS to have a “decent” experience, what a shame what gaming has become, there’s still many good indie games tho.