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ask the companies who can't get games out fast enough if these high prices are hurting the hobby? There are more companies making more games at higher prices than in decades. Look at how fast most for sale ads get sale pending. Etc. The prices indeed suck, but people are buying.
Quoted from TomKatt:Don't underestimate the influence the pandemic has had on things... You've got people stuck at home and you're giving many of them free cash to spend to pump up the economy. The same issues are demonstrated in house sales, home improvement and to an extent the pc market and even automobiles. Demand is up everywhere and supply is at best the same, or in some cases falling.
This environment is finite. But that doesn't mean there won't be some permanent changes.
I don't know a single person who bought pinball machines because they were stuck at home. People who bought machines already had them. Sure in some scenarios, but this illusion that people have 'all this extra money' while laid off is a falsehood. Broke people still be broke. The rich are just richer.
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