I recently looked at the prices of pre built desktop in my country and the PS5 offers better price to performance, if it is jailbroken that is. The prices are ridiculous. I wanted a desktop to play games, the price isn’t worth it. Every month I see an increase in the price.
Why is everyone so obsessed with the 5090? It was always a luxury item. The real tragedy are the cards that used to be between $150-$350, you know, the ones people actually buy to play games with. That was the GPU market. For the first time I can remember “build a PC to save money” is bad advice. And it’s sad for the hobby.
That price range hasn’t changed much.
The RTX3050 released around $300 MSRP.
The current gen 5050 goes around $300 today.
If anything, the prices of that range went down due to inflation…
Idk, I think it has changed a lot.
I purchased Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070XT early in 2026 for $950. I ended up returning it due to issues with it passing through in Proxmox. I figured out the issue and purchased it again about 4 months ago for $750. Right now it is going for $1,100.
That seems like a pretty huge swing to me—$350 swinging range within a single calendar year.
So this is why microcenter is making people sign waivers. Because everyone knows it’s happening they just need to prove their not taking part.
