It is if you just don’t play current AAA games. I mainly do my gaming on a WiiU. Console and everything cost me $100 used. It plays pretty much every Nintendo game ever made short of the switch titles. Games are very cheap and of high quality.

A good table saw costs more than a gaming set up and it only does one thing. You will need more than one type of saw. You might need a planer, a drill press, a lathe. The list keeps getting bigger.

Or maybe you want to do machining(high end hobby), now you need a garage which will cost you ten thousands of dollars or you rent one for a hundred or maybe four hundred dollars per month. Then you need machines which cost more than 5k dollars and you guessed it, you will require multiple machines like that.

Getting a console for playing modern games on is a one time cost of $300 to $500. Such a console will be good for several years to come.

Getting free games per month or even getting access to a back catalogue of games with Game Pass or Playstation Plus is a monthly $9 to $15.

That's less than people pay that smoke.

Not to mention you can buy a PS3 or Xbox 360 for about $150 on eBay with a bundle that includes dozens of game discs. These consoles are over a decade old but they still hold up fantastically well.

SV developers might have slight trouble grasping that 4 hours of their work is someone's monthly salary.