Add the cost of online access and any savings is wiped out. It’s what? 120 dollars a year according to google. That’s quite a big tax on the machine. Say an average PC has 5 year life span (2 generations of hardware), that’s an extra 600 dollars on top of the 500 dollars for the console? At 1100 you’re looking at a solid PC if you play your cards right … at pre built, nowhere near as much.