Except I’m not buying an entry level gpu for 400 dollars, fuuuuck that shit. 400 dollars use to get you the best GPU on the market, now it’s literally just enough to start gaming.
Exactly. I'm a PC only gamer myself, but honestly, I'm quite scared that the new hardware prices might really kill PC gaming at some point if it stay like this. Not everyone can afford super expensive stuff like this, this is really way above the line for most people, including me.
I bought a GTX 1080 less than a year after its release for 450€, today I couldn' thave anything at all for this price, it would only start around 550€ for a 3060 only, it's just ridiculous.
And even before this price crisis, I never really understood the "no point in buying this console if the game is on PC", and again, I say this as a PC gamer without any consoles. When I was a kid, I couldn't afford a pc, console was more accessible and I didn't even care if the game was on pc or not, I also never cared if what I was playing was an exclusive or not. I know people who play on consoles and have no interest in playing on PC, many people just prefer to get a console without bothering with a PC if they only get their hardware for only gaming.
It really depends about what people want and what they do, but there are a lot of people who will play on consoles just because they want to play on console, not just for the "exclusives".