I have some vacation time on Friday so I’ll take my PS4 to GameStop to trade in (since they sell sports cards now I’ll get some packs with store credit). Once I got a gaming laptop I was spending more and more time playing games on it to the point where I was only using my PS4 to watch streaming. Now that I have chrome cast I really don’t have a need for it anymore. I’m officially in the PC Master Race. I’ve always bought Sony since I was a senior in high school and my dad said if I got a PS1 he would buy my first game (terrible deal since he bought Riven).
My main reason for getting a gaming laptop was that I couldn’t get quest mods in PS4 Skyrim. Now, if I ever come across a PS2 I’d happily buy that again but I saw one at a game store with 5 games for 700. From now on it’s Steam for me. I think I may do a playthrough of old Sierra games as well
The laptop jokes were done to death so I'll only add this :
Don't waste money you can't afford to waste. If you're happy gaming on your laptop, do that.
At some point there might be several good games you want to play, but can't on your laptop. Only then would I suggest you build your own PC or buy a prebuilt.
In either options, take time to get up to date with semi-recent CPUs and GPUs to avoid overpaying / getting scammed. And decide what performance level you want within your budget.
And do not get Intel CPUs. Not only is price/performance worse than AMD CPUs, Intel has been plagued with severe quality control problems starting with 13th gen CPUs.
We're talking ''your Intel CPU will rust from the inside-out'' quality control problems.
Oh and Linux not being garbage for gaming is a relatively recent development. You have to check if any of your must-have games are compatible, and you can always have 2 drives in your PC with one having Windows installed to boot into.
Cool, thank you for the info