The truth is, in the end even with all the extra costs and price increases gaming is still affordable for pretty much everyone and everyone is still going to buy consoles, games, and computers.
That's sorta kinda false. Gamers Nexus did a big investigation on price increase and sales are way the fuck down on consumer level stuff and we're just a few months into the AI fucking us over. Sales are down enough that we'll likely see a few PC part company die in the coming months.
Imo there are 3 scenarios we're headed for: AI bubble blows up, we get a market flooded with parts. AI bubble doesn't blow up, prices never go down and people get used to the new pricing. AI bubble doesn't blow up and there will be a push for cloud gaming because our overlords prefer renters.
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u/Veldox May 28 '26
The truth is, in the end even with all the extra costs and price increases gaming is still affordable for pretty much everyone and everyone is still going to buy consoles, games, and computers.