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Zkuq said:

JEMC said:

Yeah, gaming is becoming less and less affordable, and this will have consequences. Sooner, rather than later.

Recently I've been thinking that since gaming can take so much time, where would we be without gaming? Then again, there's also Netflix and such, so maybe nowhere better. Regardless, I've been questioning the sensibility of having such time sinks.

Anyway, I guess I'm off to play some games if the needed people are available.

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Pemalite said:

If it wasn't for gaming, I would likely do nothing except work, eat, sleep. (Which ironically I have been doing for the last several weeks anyway.)

My train of thought was more like if consoles and GPUs keep increasing in price, there'll be a point where they won't sell anymore.

Spending $400-600 on a smartphone can be justified more easily than a console because it's something useful and that can do lots of things, gaming included. And so a family may be more willing to spend that money on a phone for their kids than on a console/GPU.

And if kids grow up playing on smartphones, they'll be less inclined to buy a console or PC to game. Even more so if console/PC games cost $80, plus all the microtransactions they'll keep having and that may or may not also increase in price.

So yeah, it's not like I think gaming is going to disappear, it's just that how people game will change, and console and PC won't benefit from it.

But that's just my pessimistic view of the situation.