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And over the last few years that upfront cost has gone up insanely between everything costing more during COVID and GPU pricing miking gamers first during the crypto craze and now with the AI one.
Though, the insane scalping also shot PS5 prices stupid high too.
You're right. PS5s were mostly unobtanium for a while. A Youtuber managed to trigger a small riot in NYC offering free PS5s recently.