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I understand the sentiment, but this wording was always a marketing ploy for people to spend more than they need and it was never useful.
When I was young, we were having so many innovations that there was no need to overpay, in two years you could get something twice as powerful for half the price. Even less if you could get used.
Then it took a halt, by the time I needed more memory. It was cheap to get a DDR3 + mobo + CPU than filling the empty slots on my DDR2 motherboard.
I failed for "future proofing" a few times. Extra memory slots, multicores and 64bits that windows and programs struggled to see, PSU with 4x that power I needed, when I needed it most of the plugs already changed.
I lived through a bunch of hardware shenanigans, some were shrugged, some were caught and received a slap on the wrist.
Now, more than ever, people should buy what they can afford and properly dimension their hardware for their current needs, not some future fantasy. There are communities over here that can help them with that.
There are no big innovations either, mostly exaggerated hardware usage for no apparent reason to force buy new hardware that does not do much either.
My rule of thumb for games early last year was if you cannot build something better than Steam Deck for cheaper, get the Deck, but now it is all crazy.
yeah, i've tried building the fancy expensive system too. there's always some bit of hardware architecture that needs an upgrade and now i've blown $1000 on some little useless piece after 2-3 years. getting something midgrade and upgrading in 7 years instead of 10-15 saves so much money
what pisses me off is i was just about to upgrade my SSD and my PSU right before the crazy hit. I can do without, i just don't want to. Now i have to wait a decade for the market to cool down and it'll be time for an entire new box by then
Future proofing does not require you to shell out a ton of money. I spent less than $1,000 building my machine back in 2012, buying each part individually as I went when I could save up the money. And I didn't actually put the thing together until 2016 or so cause my previous machine was working fine at the time. (Still is actually, as a file server in my basement) It just takes a modicum of planning and research on compatibility and what technologies are being used in cutting edge games and programs.
Or, I should say it did. Nowadays everything has become so stupid expensive because of the race to the bottom AI Data center bullshit corporate destruction of the retail market. Though, I kind of saw this coming and bought a whole mess of parts right after Trump was elected so that I can build a decent machine to use once the one I have is no longer viable. Which I have not reached yet...