You wouldn't be getting a top-end mobile phone though, right?

You can get a PS3 for next to nothing, and games also cost hardly anything. No online subscription required either.

Go down to PS2 and PS1, and you can get all of it essentially for free.

That's the case in the US, because lots of people bought them, so they're available second-hand.

for 317 you can build relatively decent PC without GPU, so add something like 200$ and you can have decent setup for maybnewest games like Cyberpunk on mid settings

I bought GTX 970 and Ryzen 7 1700 for 240$, but it was 2 years ago

> for 317 you can build

Or you can just walk into a shop and leave with a new phone.

Three-digit dollar amounts and the developing world often don't go well together. A phone can be had for comparatively cheaply, in comparison.

Well, people from poor countries probably don't need to play newest AAA games.

>A phone can be had for comparatively cheaply, in comparison.

Some phones definitely can, same with some computers, the thing is whether you're comfortable with trade-offs.

Computer unlike smartphone can be relatively easily built with used parts.

In the early 2000s you could reasonably expect people to have access to a desktop computer of some description and this advice would've been somewhat valid. In 2021, nobody really assumes you have access to a desktop computer anymore, but we do assume people have access to a mobile device of some description. In that world, a $300 mobile is a much saner investment than a $300 PC for most people.