Why can't you play a laptop in bed?

Also, I understand being busy, but what sort of time savings are you gaining by playing actually physically IN bed?

The time it takes to walk to bed from somewhere else in your house?

It's also not great for your sleep to play on a screen actually in bed.

Why not?

Original PS4 that's 9 years old and at release contained the power of a GPU 2 years old.

This was true for a hot minute.

You can get better in a laptop now. Especially at the $650 price point.

Honestly.

Imagine someone posting

>Hey guys! I have a GTX 1050! I should be able to rock out in the most demanding AAA titles, right?

Steam deck often gets a pass because it's a mobile device...but the games don't care.

Were there any instances of force instead of Force?

While this price is high, you can tell who hasn't checked the prices of strollers lately.

$1000 is not an over the top price for a high rated stroller that you push.

Was it? When?

Prior to the Patriot act in 2001?

I bet we can both think of some groups that had pretty lousy times in the 80s and 90s who might disagree with that.

When was the peace, freedom, and equality again?

I was responding to his responses.

Here, I'll sum the discussion up:

"PC Gaming is going to become niche if flagship cards are so expensive!"

"Flagship cards are already niche and have always been."

"But flagship cards used to be $400-$500!"

"It's been 12 years since the last $500 flagship card"

"Does that make it okay?"

"Yes, because this isn't a NEEDED product. The market will determine its worth."

"I play exclusively PC VR I need this product!"

"PC VR is sub niche of a sub niche of a rich person's hobby. It's okay for the market to decide the value of that."

"JK, I'm not rich, I'm actually cripplingly poor."

"You're cripplingly poor with a multi thousand dollar gaming setup?"

"It's actually only $1,400"

"Why do you have a $1,400 PC if you're cripplingly poor?"

Alrighty. All caught up?

The bottom 10% in the US is $8800/yr.

That's $4000 below the federal poverty level.

Don't you need the money for...food? Or education? Or housing?

Or....anything more important than video games when you're cripplingly poor?

You're in the bottom 10% of your country but you have a multi thousand dollar VR gaming setup for fun?

I mean...you realize that as someone who plays only in high refresh PC VR you are a niche of a niche of a niche of a rich person's hobby...right?

A niche that didn't exist when flagship GPUs were $500

The last flagship card that was $500 was the GTX 480 in 2010. (non-inflation adjusted numbers)

RTX 3090 - $1500 (we won't count the 3090 ti because global shortage)

RTX 2080 ti - $1200

GTX 1080 ti - $700

GTX 980 ti - $650

GTX 780 ti - $699

GTX 690 - $999

GTX 590 - $700

GTX 480 - $500

And yes. The Market determines the value of the product. No one needs to push a few more pixels faster sooner.

Flagship PC gaming IS a niche.

It should be a niche. "The very best graphics card money can buy" is never going to be mainstream and it never was.

Look at the steam hardware survey. Mainstream cards are xx60 and xx50.

These are enthusiast cards for people will8ng to pay out the nose to experience tech earlier.