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Will you upgrade your PC now that you have a steam deck?
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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.
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.
True, how funny that prebuilt PCs became a better deal lol.
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.
Hope you're right. I hate the trend of half-assed releases.
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.