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Comment by squidlib

13 hours ago

10-20 hours a week is a lot of gaming. Was it suggested that was a small amount and not worth the investment to have an actual machine? 10-20hrs over a month is more in the realm of streaming imo.

Quick math -

Xbox Cloud Gaming gives you 50 hours for $12. You could game for 3333 hours to equal the Xbox Series X in price ($800). Say you want to depreciate the device over 7 years, that's about 500 hours of gaming a year, or ~9-10 hours a week.

I'd say that's a pretty reasonable limit for a low volume, casual gamer.

  • That heavily assumes MS does not increase the price, which has been proven to be false when they increase Gamepass price in the past.

The average American watches 4 hours of TV per day!!!

Half of all Americans watch more…..

  • TV can be passively watched though while you do other things. Gaming has to be actively engaged with

  • "Average" probably means the mean here, not the median. So it's not half who watch more than that. There's probably a big gap between the mean and the median. Nobody publishes the median because that number is published by the ad industry which has no interest in showing the lower median.

  • Is that statistic active watching, or skewed by those that leave it on 24h news or shopping or whatever 24/7?