It’s going to be interesting to see how this affects market expansion to, as you mentioned, audience that currently don’t have rigs or consoles.

Im in this thread’s op shoes: My PS5 is still rolling and so is my Switch that I’ve bought during COVID. Even my shitty laptop plays the strategy game Remakes that I would rather play there. I’ve got backlogs on all these devices, on PS5 even some physical ones. They could stop making games and I’d have enough to do for a while. So if you’re in that kind of position right now you wouldn’t notice the price increase. However, if you’re now entering the market it’s obviously bad timing, especially in PC gaming.

I just hope they’re not pumping out a new PlayStation anytime soon. Let’s get some more well optimized games there instead.

Well eventually someone has to consume something for all of this to make sense, no?

Also isn’t this more the result of unhinged capitalism without any real workers pushback?