Should I buy a console or wait? (giveaway inside)

I want a console with games that I can't find on Steam

PS4+80€ Vita

PS4 for the current, PS3 for a value. Avoid Nintendo consoles (both handheld and home) if you are on a budget since even with used games, they rarely dip below msrp.

If you really want a console, get the one most of your friends have.

Ideally I want a console with games that I can't find on Steam (as I'm eventually going to get a new gpu...but don't want to wait for prices to drop to MSRP so going console for now)

Just buy the hardware for your PC if you're an impatient gamer, i.e. want's to play the latest games as quickly as humanly possible. You're not going to save money on buying a console and paying the console tax for all the games you want. Games for consoles are, generally, a lot more expensive than the same titles on PC

Wrongly phrased question. You want to buy a GPU, but your budget is not really good for that, so now you are contemplating on buying an even worse video card attached to a weaker computer you already have, forking over more cash to buy a desktop GPU, or buying the only actual video game console on your list, a Switch.

I just read, a PS5 is planned - it will at the earliest in the end of 2018, but more likely 2019. So, if you want to buy a console now, I'd buy a PS 4.

There are hardwareswap forums, look there for cheap GPU prices

Pretty sure noone mines bitcoins on GPUs anymore. Except maybe people who want to use it as a heater that pays back a few cents from the electricity bill

Can't you find a second-hand gpu? From a friend or somewhere else. Something powerful from a couple years ago should be cheap and let you play demanding games anyway.

*Off topic

Games not on PC means mostly Switch or Ps4

What console game needs a new GPU? Current gen already uses years old tech.

Buy used GPU GTX 970 can be find below 150$ * I pay for my 110£

And my Second Hand VR Ready PC
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/JzNQzy

If you are looking for exclusives, Playstation Now is a thing.
I never tried it, nor interested in exclusives

Ignore AMD GPU's if you don't want to wait. Go for a 1060 for 1080p gaming. I don't recommend console at all for more reasons than overall pricing if you take into account how much you pay in the long run.

The mining craze hit AMD hardware the most, they're just better at mining than Nvidia's and that's by design. As Nvidia avoided compute performance as opposed to rendering performance. That's why they perform pretty well while consuming less power in GaminG.

If you are considering a console, i'd recommend the PS3. I've been considering it myself, but there is one or two games that interest me, so i never bit the bullet. So if you have a list of exclusives available on the PS3, i don't think that'd be a bad idea,
If you want a console for now and make use of it still for the future, the Xbox 1 S seems decent for the price. BluRay player as well as 4K HDR netflix playback [may require updates]. That said, i'm not sure about the support for CrossPlay, but it'd be a bonus to transfer your games as well as saves back to PC when you manage a decent rig.

Just my two cents, i hope it helps. Best of luck and thanks for the GA (i own it, but i love seeing good games being given away).

I don't own a console due to me being the worst player you've ever seen playing with a controller ^^, but if I were to get one, it would definitely be the PS4 for the more interesting exclusives (interesting in my opinion, of course).

Maybe just get 1060 that is much cheaper than 1070 and most likely will have more power the each of those consoles?

The Switch is also a portable so it has that going for it but PS4 has more interesting looking exclusives and Xbox doesn't even seem to be trying to compete in this generation as far as games go.
I just stick to PC because is always cheaper and better on the long run and I rarelly play newly released games anyway.

Here is the complete but definitive answer to that question:

1. Do you have at least 1200€/$?

   • Yes: Consider a PC (no point if you don't have the accompanying powerful enough CPU/Board/SSD, so we're talking full PC build)
   • No: Your choice is console, if you have a TV or plan on getting one.

2. Do you prefer solo chair, bedroom, small screen setting or social couch, living room, big TV setting

   • Chair/Screen: PC, it's slower, it's has lags/freeze/bugs, it's longer to operate but you can do everything with it.
   • Couch/TV: PS4 or Switch, just enter the disc or download and play/suspend.

3. Do you prefer quantity or quality?

   • Quantity: PC has a timeless (no-generations) catalogue and emulators. In fact undifferentiated oceans of it, amongst which lots of crap.
   • Quality: PC, or PS4/Switch depending on your type. Of course, the criteria is exclusives (Xbox One has almost none).

4. Do you prefer western/action/online/fps games or global/narrative/cinematic/graphical games or eastern/arcade/accessible/fun games?

   • 1: Go for a PC: you get easy access to tons of F2Ps, all the FPS in their highest settings and emulators.
   • 2: Go for a PS4: you get the highest quality selection of highly crafted cinematic and graphical adventure, action, sport games.
   • 3: Go for a Switch: you (will) get a good quality selection of highly crafted game design adventure, platform, arcade and multiplayer games.

Overall:

1. Price sets your destiny.
2. The settings you prefer tells a lot about what you'd enjoy more.
3. In the end it's about wether you prefer an undifferentiated ocean of crap amongst which big but redundant AAA titles highest settings, or a selection of highly crafted exclusives games you're all going to want to play, either the cinematographic graphically impressive action/adventure/platform ones on PS4, or the great and fun game design and gameplay you find on platform/adventure/arcade game on Switch
4. Haven't you decided yet?

Buy a new videocard and some games, no console.

I have a PS4 a Switch and a... quite decent PC. Switch is a newborn, there's not much worth to it right now besides Breath of The Wild and Splatoon 2. PS4 is stuffed with games you find on Steam, but some (perhaps temporary) exclusives are quite worth it, like Persona 5 (wonderful JRPG), Let it Die (a cyberpunk Dark Souls) and Horizon Zero Dawn (I really don't have words to describe this one), plus the officially exclusive ones like Uncharted, The last of Us and God of War.

I would take advantage of this 'opportunity' to experience all the exclusives you haven't played yet! Though I personally think that the PS3 is where it's at, atm. The hardware is cheap, and so are the games. There are a bunch of console exclusives on it (including PS1 and PS2 classics) and you can stream most PSP/PSVITA games if you purchase a PSTV, which is around 20 bucks. If you're looking for multiplayer games though, I would go for the PS4 - which is starting to have a respectable list of exclusives of its own. Just be warned that you will need to sub to PSPlus, though you do gain access to a few mystery games each month to sweeten the deal.

I have pretty much everything except for a PS4 (been waiting for a good deal)
I would first and foremost put the PC ahead of a console purchase, but i agree pricing is crap due to mining. (I've been waiting for a year to buy a 1080ti, but refuse to pay over $1k for a GPU, but they HAVE to come down soon right??)

Having said that.. I wouldn't touch Nintendo atm unless it's a decent second hand Wii U maybe (for a cheap temporary option until you get the GPU)
If none of your friends have consoles (Then you should buy what they have so you can play with them) then i would say get a PS4pro as it is the best there is atm, until the XboneX comes out. But even then.. what games will it make a difference to? Also look at exclusives.. go for what ever has the most exclusives you'd prefer to play.
Good luck :)

If the sole reason that you want a console is to play games you can't find on steam, I'd have to say any Nintendo Console, since they always have, by far, the highest number of exclusives in the console market. However, if you're not a fan of their exclusives - zelda, mario, pokemon, etc-, go with the ps4, since it's has the second biggest exclusive library.