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| Topic | The Cost of Living Keeps Rising |
| adjl 08/09/25 12:14:03 PM #218: | Zora_Prince posted... I've heard of the environmental damage they're doing for this scam. No surprise they're increasing the price of electronics. That's largely passed now because you can no longer make money as readily by mining, but for a while around 2018-19 it was almost impossible to buy a decent GPU for MSRP because they were getting snapped up for mining rigs. That was compounded when something or other happened in 2020 that introduced a bunch of supply issues, but died down as those supply issues gradually got resolved (but were replaced with inflation and now tariff issues that have kept prices relatively high). Console manufacturers were able to weather the storm better than many because they had supply contracts already in place for components, so they wouldn't have felt the full magnitude of the price swings retail customers did, but there are limits to that. We're now seeing those limits, in the form of the Switch 2 being so much more expensive than the Switch 1 and a need to increase the Switch's price 8 years after launch. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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