Haddii aad rabto in aad ciyaarto ciyaaraha fiidyaha^{(video games)} wakhtigan iyo da'da, waligeed ma dhicin doorashooyin badan. Waxaad qabsan kartaa taleefanka casriga ah^(smartphone) ama aad ku boodboodi kartaa adeegga ciyaaraha^{(game streaming)} oo aad ciyaareyso waqti aan la joogin. Si kastaba ha noqotee, inta badan dadka u ciyaara ciyaaraha fiidiyowga qaab madadaalada aasaasiga ah, waxaa jira laba doorasho: PC vs console.

Consoles waa mashiinada ciyaarta ujeedo loo dhisay oo bixiya ciyaaraha plug-iyo-ciyaar oo aan loo baahnayn in lagu khalkhalgeliyo goobaha ciyaarta. Iyagu sidoo kale waa kuwo la awoodi karo, ama ugu yaraan qiimihiisu bilawga ah waa. 

Kombuyuutarrada, dhanka kale, waxay bixiyaan dabacsanaan qalabeed oo dhamaystiran iyo, haddii aad kharash ku bixiso, nooca ciyaarta faras ee ciyaarta oo aan konsole u dhigmi karin. Marka laga reebo in laga yaabo inay sax tahay marka jiilka cusub ee consoles-yada la bilaabo.

In kasta oo madal kombuyuutarku yahay, guud ahaan guriga waxqabadka ciyaaraha fiidyaha ee qaaliga ah, ciyaartoygu inta badan waxay ku qiimeeyaan qiimaha la dareemayo ee ah inay yihiin gamer PC. Su’aashu waxay tahay in aragtidaasi sax tahay. Jawaabtu, sida aynu arki doono, waxay ku xidhan tahay sida aad wax u eegto.

Qiimaha Qalabka

Ma jirto laba dariiqo oo ku saabsan. Qadarka lacagta aad ku wareejinayso si aad guriga ugu qaadato konsole way ka yar tahay inta aad ku bixin lahayd PC ciyaar u dhigma ama ka fiican. Sida cimriga konsole-ku sii socdo, xaqiiqadaasi way isbedeshaa. Mar haddii qalabka konsole-ku aanu isbeddelin, qalabka cusub ee kombuyuutarku wuxuu noqdaa mid aad u xoog badan qiimo hoose. Markaa aakhirka qiimo la mid ah weydiinta konsole-ka ayaa kuu gelin doona PC leh tilmaamo ka sii wanaagsan.

Waa maxay sababta consoles-yada ay aad uga jaban yihiin? Waxaa jira dhowr sababood oo tan ah. Sameeyayaasha Console-ka waxay helayaan qiimayaal agabka door bidaan sababtoo ah waxay dhisaan malaayiin iyo malaayiin consoles. Sameeyayaasha Console sidoo kale uma baahna inay faa'iido ka sameeyaan consoles-yadooda. Badanaa xitaa way jebiyaan ama way khasaaraan cutub kasta. 

Tani waa mid la aqbali karo sababtoo ah shay loo yaqaan "qiimaha lifaaqa". Xaaladda console-ka, tani waxa ay tilmaamaysaa ciyaaraha, adeegyada iyo agabka isticmaalayaashu ay tahay inay iibsadaan si ay uga helaan isticmaalkooda dhabta ah. Markaa xitaa haddii qalabka konsole laftiisu aanu wax lacag ah samayn, waxa jira faa’iido degdeg ah oo laga helo iibinta ciyaarta ugu horreysa, agabka ama is-diiwaangelinta.

Kombiyuutarrada, qayb kastaa waxay leedahay faa'iido. Soosaarayaasha gaarka ah waxay u baahan yihiin inay ku soo celiyaan qalabka ama ma jiri doonto wax macno ah. Natiijada kama dambaysta ah ee tani waa, marka laga eego waxqabadka-hal-dollar ee aragtida, PC-yada ayaa ka qaalisan consoles-yada. Si kastaba ha ahaatee taasi maahan sheekada oo dhan. Waxay noqon lahayd mid sax ah in la yiraahdo kombuyuutarrada ayaa horay u sii kacaya. Laakiin haddii aan eegno kharashka ka badan cimriga console-ka caadiga ah, sawirkaasi wuu isbedelaa. 

Qiimaha Software-ka

Sababtoo ah consoles-yadu waa goob xiran, horumariyayasha ciyaarta waxay u baahan yihiin inay bixiyaan mudnaanta siideynta ciyaaraha nidaamkaas. Tani waxay ku timaadaa qaab lacag ah oo ku lifaaqan nuqul kasta oo la iibiyo. Halkii ay ku garaaci lahaayeen faa'iidadooda gaarka ah, kharashkaas waxaa loo gudbiyaa gamer-ka console. Markaa waxaad ogaan doontaa in, marka la bilaabayo, ciyaaraha konsoledu ay ka kharash badan yihiin isla cinwaanka PC.

Intaas kuma koobna! Maaddaama dhowr qeybiye oo kala duwan ay u tartamayaan iibinta ciyaarta PC, dhib kuguma yeelan doontid waligaa bixinta qiimaha tafaariiqda ciyaarta PC. Haddi ay tahay qiimo dhimis horay loo dalbaday ama qiima dhimis bilo yar ama xitaa todobaadyo ka dib bilawga, had iyo jeer waxaa jira heshiisyo la yaab leh oo lagu sameeyo ciyaaraha PC. Ciyaaraha Console^(Console) , si ka duwan, waxay u muuqdaan inay hayaan qiimahooda oo dhan muddo dheer. Sidoo kale kuma raaxaystaan ​​qiimo dhimis ku dhow sida kuwa PC-ga marka ay iibinayaan.

Tani waa halka uu ka soo galo barbareeyaha ugu weyn ee qiimaha ciyaaraha PC vs console. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, tani waxay si cad ugu xiran tahay inta kulan ee aad iibsato. 

Doodda awgeed, aynu nidhaahno ciyaarta konsole-ku waxay ku kacaysaa $10 in ka badan celceliska nooca PC. Haddii aad iibsato hal ciyaar bishii shan sano, taasi waxay noqon doontaa $10 x 12 bilood x 5 sano. U dhigma $600.

Haddii aad ku dartay $600 iibkaadi hore ee konsole oo aad soo iibsatay $1000 PC beddelkeeda, wadarta kharashkaagu wuxuu ahaan lahaa mid isku mid ah. Maalmahan, $1000 waxay iibsan kartaa laptop ama desktop ciyaar oo qurxoon. Si kastaba ha ahaatee taasi waa hal meel oo kharash qarsoon ah oo ay tahay in ciyaartoyda console ay la dagaallamaan.

Qiimaha Adeegyada khadka

Maadaama uu kombuyuutarku bixiyo madal furan, ciyaartoydu maaha inay lacag ku bixiyaan hawlaha ay ka mid yihiin ciyaartoy badan oo dhinac saddexaad ah. Koonsolayaasha, ciyaartoy badan oo khadka tooska ah ayaa inta badan loogu talagalay adeegga is-diiwaangelinta, taas oo ay dheer tahay rukhsad kasta oo ciyaar ah oo laga yaabo inaad bixiso.

Nintendo , Sony iyo Microsoft ayaa dhamaantood macaaneeyay heshiiska iyaga oo ku daray qiimo dhimis iyo ciyaaraha dhijitaalka ah ee "free" ee isku dhafka ah. Markaa haddii ay taasi u qalanto kharashku waxay ku xidhan tahay shakhsiyaadka. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, xariiqda hoose ayaa ah in haddii aad rabto inaad online ku ciyaarto dhammaan kharashku maaha ikhtiyaari.

Markaa dhinacyada qiimaha lagu daray ma qaadaan miisaanka intaa le'eg. Haddii aad ku darto kala duwanaanshaha is-diiwaangelinta ciyaartoy badan oo bille ah oo khadka tooska ah celcelis ahaan faraqa qiimaha ciyaarta, waxay sii simaysaa farqiga qiimaha u dhexeeya PC iyo qalabka konsole marka loo eego wareegga nolosha ee consoles'ka.

Kharashka cusboonaysiinta

Marka xigta, waxaan u baahanahay inaan wax ka bedelno qiimaha cusboonaysiinta PC. Marka hore^(First) , casriyaynta kombuyutarka inta lagu jiro jiilka u dhigma ee konsole waa ikhtiyaari^(optional) . Ugu yaraan marka ay timaado ciyaaraha isdhaafsiga. 

Horumarkii ugu dambeeyay ee consoles-yada ayaa ah casriyeynta jiilka dhexe. Kaas oo na siiyay PlayStation 4 Pro iyo Xbox One X. Midkoodna kuwani ma ahayn casriyeyn lama huraan ah, laakiin waxay bixiyeen jab si cadaalad ah loo awoodi karo oo ku aaddan awoodda garaafyada. 

CPU-yada^(CPUs) mashiinadan qarniyadii dhexe wax iskama bedelin. Markaa haddii aad ku samaysay wax la mid ah jiilkaaga dhexe oo kaliya oo aad cusboonaysiiso GPU -ga , markaa waxaad ku kharash garaynaysaa in ka badan (ama ka yar) sidii aad ku iibsan lahayd console cusub oo la cusboonaysiiyay. Marka la eego dhinacaas kor u qaadista waxay leedahay saameyn aan muuqan marka la barbardhigo PC vs console.

Ma u baahan tahay PC waxyaabo kale?

Tixgelinta muhiimka ah ee xigta marka la xisaabinayo qiimaha isbarbardhigga waa haddii aad u baahan tahay kumbuyuutar wax aan ahayn ciyaaraha. Haddii aad u baahan tahay kombuyuutar wax ka badan ciyaaraha, markaa kharashka konsole-ku waa ka dheer^(addition) yahay kan PC-ga aan ciyaaraha ahayn.

Xaaladdaas, waxaad sidoo kale ku dari kartaa kharashyada oo aad hesho PC-ga ciyaaraha. Haddii aadan gabi ahaanba u baahnayn PC, markaa waxaan ka tagi karnaa marka la barbardhigo qiimaha.

Aragtiyo Kala Duwan ee Qiimaha

Sidaan soo aragnay, haddii aad eegto wadarta qiimaha lahaanshaha inta lagu jiro cimriga konsole-ga caadiga ah, kala duwanaanshaha qiimaha PC vs console ma ahan mid aad u weyn sidii loo sameeyay. Dabcan, kombuyuutarrada waxay noqon karaan kuwo aad qaali u ah dhammaadka sare, laakiin tani maaha isbarbardhigga xag-jirnimada.

Mar labaad, waa in aynaan iloobin in consoles-yadu sidoo kale leeyihiin faa'iidooyin gaar ah. Tusaale ahaan, waxaa loogu talagalay inay noqdaan mashiinnada guriga ee la wadaago halkii ay noqon lahaayeen kuwo shakhsi ah. Sidoo kale, uma baahna aqoon farsamo si ay u shaqeeyaan ama u iibsadaan. Si kastaba ha noqotee, marka laga eego dhinaca qiimaha saafiga ah, haddii aad awoodid inaad awoodid qiimo hore oo sareeyo, waxaa jira dood adag oo lagu sameeyo dhinaca PC ee isla'egta.

Is A Gaming PC Really More Expensive Than A Console?

If you want to play video games in this day and age there have never been more options. You can grab a smartphone or hop on a game streaming service and be playing in no time. However, for most people who play video games as a primary form of entertainment, there are two choices: PC vs console.

Consoles are purpose-built gaming machines that offer plug-and-play gaming with no need to mess about with game settings. They are also pretty affordable, or at least their initial price tag is. 

PCs, on the other hand, offer complete hardware flexibility and, if you spend enough, the sort of gaming horsepower that no console can match. Except perhaps right as a new generation of consoles launches.

While the PC platform is, in general the home of premium video game performance, gamers often baulk at the perceived price of being a PC gamer. The question is whether that perception is accurate. The answer, as we’ll see, depends on how you look at things.

The Hardware Costs

There’s no two ways about it. The amount of money you have to hand over to take a console home is less than you’d pay for an equivalent or better gaming PC. As a console’s lifespan rolls along, that fact changes. Since the console hardware doesn’t change, new PC hardware becomes more powerful at a lower price. So eventually a similar asking price for the console will net you a PC with better specifications.

Why are consoles so much cheaper? There are a few reasons for this. Console makers get preferential hardware prices because they build millions and millions of consoles. Console makers also don’t need to make a profit on their consoles. Often they either break even or take a loss on each unit. 

This is acceptable because of something known as the “attach rate”. In the case of a console, this refers to the games, services and accessories users must buy to get any real use out of their machine. So even if the console hardware itself doesn’t make any money, there’s instant profit from the sale of the first game, accessory or subscription.

With PCs, every component has a profit margin. The individual manufacturers need to make a return on the hardware or there’d be no point. The end result of this is that, from a performance-per-dollar point of view, PCs are more expensive than consoles. However that’s not the whole story. It would be more accurate to say that PCs cost more upfront. But if we look at the cost over the lifespan of a typical console, that picture changes. 

The Software Costs

Because consoles are a closed platform, game developers need to pay for the privilege of releasing games on that system. This comes in the form of a fee attached to every copy sold. Rather than take a hit to their own profits, that cost is passed on to the console gamer. So you’ll find that, at launch, console games cost more than the same title on PC.

That’s not all! Since several different distributors compete for PC game sales, you’ll hardly ever pay retail price for a PC game. Whether it’s a pre-order discount or price cuts mere months or even weeks after launch, there are always amazing deals to be had on PC games. Console games, in contrast, tend to hold their full price for much longer. They also don’t enjoy price cuts nearly as deep as those on PC when they do go on sale.

This is where the main equalizer in the price of gaming on PC vs console comes into play. However, this clearly depends heavily on how many games you buy. 

For argument’s sake, let’s say that a console game costs $10 more than the PC version on average. If you buy one game a month for five years, that would be $10 x 12 months x 5 years. Equalling $600.

If you had added that $600 to your initial console purchase and bought a $1000 PC instead, your total expenditure would have been the same. These days, a $1000 can buy a pretty decent gaming laptop or desktop. However that’s just one area of hidden cost that console gamers have to contend with.

Online Services Costs

Since the PC offers an open platform, players don’t have to pay for functions such as multiplayer to a third party.  On consoles, online multiplayer is usually reserved for a subscription service, which is in addition to any actual game subscriptions you might have to pay.

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all sweetened the deal by adding discounts and “free” digital games into the mix. So whether that’s worth the cost will be up to individuals. However, the bottom line is that if you want to play online at all the fee isn’t optional.

So the value added aspects don’t carry that much weight. If you add the difference in monthly online multiplayer subscriptions to the average difference in game prices, it further equalizes the price difference between PC and console hardware over the console life cycle.

Upgrade Costs

Next, we need to factor in the cost of upgrading a PC. First of all, upgrades to PC over the course of it’s console equivalent generation is optional. At least when it comes to cross-platform games. 

A rather recent development with consoles is the mid-generation upgrade. Which gave us the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X. Neither of these were essential upgrades, but they did offer a fairly affordable bump to graphical power. 

The CPUs for these mid-generation machines were virtually unchanged. So if you did the same thing to your PC mid-generation and only upgrade the GPU, then you’d spend about as much (or less) as you would on a new, updated console. From that point of view upgrading has a negligible effect when comparing PC vs console.

Do You Need A PC For Other Things?

The next important consideration when calculating comparative cost is whether you need a computer for anything besides gaming. If you do need a computer for more than gaming, then the console’s cost is in addition to that of a non-gaming PC.

In that case, you might as well add the costs together and get the gaming PC. If you don’t need a PC at all, then we can leave it out of the cost comparison.

A Different Perspective On Costs

As we’ve seen, if you look at the total cost of ownership over the lifespan of the typical console, the cost differences of PC vs console aren’t nearly as dramatic as they’ve been made out to be. Of course, PCs can be incredibly expensive at the high end, but this is not a comparison of extremes.

Then again, we shouldn’t forget that consoles have unique advantages as well. For example, they are designed to be shared household machines rather than being personal. Also, they don’t require as much technical knowledge to operate or buy. However, from a pure cost perspective, if you can afford a higher upfront price, there’s a strong argument to be made on the PC side of the equation.

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