The article is only referring to the more recent price hikes caused by RAM shortage, so no wonder it feels like a cheap shot to say “ai bad”, which is correct, but misses the fucking forest - consoles are really expensive without offering that big of a “bang for your buck” as they once did decades ago, capitalism shifting most companies into whatever is the current most lucrative fad of the moment, companies fighting against players’ ownership of games in the form of “Live service battlepass with extra skins”, company heads demanding maximum profit

Yeah. I wish we could go back 3 years before this boom started and everything cheap…

Unless it’s Kojima, Larian, or From Software, I stick to very affordable indies. Gaming isn’t expensive when you avoid the big corporate grifters.

why is _______ becoming so expensive? the answer is found in ai

The answer is found in capitalism. Why are gamers, who have continually been fucked by capitalism, so blind at seeing the obvious. '80s game crash: capitalism. Day one DLC: capitalism. Micro transactions: capitalism. All the hardware being hoovered up, so software costs more at every level, increasing prices for both hardware and software: capitalism.