Why couldn't you be open and transparent with your children and communicate that the gaming pc was outside the scope of your budget and will take a couple more months of savings (brehs in here saying a gaming pc is less expensive than a PS5) for you to be able to buy it for them?
Yes, teaching your kids that they can't get everything they want in life is a good lesson (not sure this is the best situation to do so since parents typically ask their children what they want for the holidays and typically try to meet those expectations but then to turn around and say tough luck would be immature) but there are other good lessons that could be taught like be open and transparent and imparting in your children the understanding that the acquiring of goods is done by saving and budgeting and that unfortunately it was outside of your budget but that you could work towards getting them what they wanted in the near future.
Instead of letting egos get in the way of your parenting. Egos should not be present in marriage and parenting, if you're doing it right. And most of the reactions in here are ego based "I'm going to put the child in his place", name-calling "ungrateful a$$hole", instead of you self-reflecting on how you didn't meet your child's expectations and how you were not transparent in your communications.
Because that lil motherfukker probably doesn’t know how expensive a gaming pc is either
And the ones telling you that you can get one cheaper than a PS5 is
Unless you’re buying it used and from someone desperate.. maybe. And it’s probably gonna be shyt. but buying used computers is risky af anyway, then there are the peripherals needed, monitors, the streaming decks, microphones (maybe), headsets, special keyboards/mice, etc. and thats with a prebuilt system.
And guarantee the parents didn’t know how much it costs. Most adults aren’t buying 3k gaming rigs. They’re too busy working to spend the kinda money and time into doing that shyt unless they’re just really into pc gaming and they usually work up to it.. which most people arent. The parents saw the price for an average one and probably felt like a PS5 was a better investment for a child for the amount of money and time it takes to take care of a PC like that.
This lil goof just wanted to be like every youtuber and twitch streamer he worships that sits behind their computer screen and talks to their “fans”… not realizing them nikkas are grown af and probably had income before this, I assume, or got their shyt off credit.