The other consequence of this situation is game development. With less and less people being able to afford newer and more capable components, mostly GPUs, game development will have to scale back or massively increase the part they dedicate to optimization.
World/maps won't be able to get bigger and more detailed because cards won't have enough memory. RT/PT implementation will slow down as GPUs won't be powerful enough, etc.
We may see how indies and free-to-play titles become the biggest sellers (they're already almost there) because those games will target less powerful machines that will make them more attractive to more gamers that can't run the latest games with more eye candy.
We have interesting, albeit a bit somewhat disappointing, times ahead of us.
Please excuse my bad English.
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