Yea, the way this worked out for me as a kid was that I needed all the money I got to upgrade my PC and wouldn't have any left over for buying games so I just p

Yea, the way this worked out for me as a kid was that I needed all the money I got to upgrade my PC and wouldn't have any left over for buying games so I just pirated these games. Anyway, without numbers that's just a theory and might not hold. Anecdotally a lot of people are worrying about whether they can play games on their budget build. And they would rather buy games than spend a ton on a faster PC. And I believe consoles sell for a similar reason: they are cheap. It's the actual games that console gamers pay decent money for. (Of course the PC game market is now extremely saturated and there are deep discounts & giveaways constantly somewhere)