Night of the Consumers

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last six months, you know all about the RAM shortage. For consumers, supply has dwindled but demand hasn’t, leading to prices rising significantly and very quickly.Gamers have been hit particularly hard. The RAM shortage is why the price of the PlayStation 5 went up at the end of March, more than five years after its launch. It’s why building a gaming PC has become tougher for people on a budget.And these rising prices are on top of costs that have long been built into gaming. Both console and PC players have to deal with the cost of upgrading the

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"Young and old, gather round / Everybody hail the new king in town."