The article is only referring to the more recent price hikes caused by RAM shortage, so no wonder it feels like a cheap shot to say "ai bad", which is correct, but misses the fucking forest - consoles are really expensive without offering that big of a "bang for your buck" as they once did decades ago, capitalism shifting most companies into whatever is the current most lucrative fad of the moment, companies fighting against players' ownership of games in the form of "Live service battlepass with extra skins", company heads demanding maximum profit
It's interesting how games from the 80s and 90s, in general, required less time to complete than the crop that came with the PS2 era. DVDs allowed for much, much longer games, sometimes to a fault, other times the extra time to complete was in the form of challenges or unlockable characters.
Let's not forget that half of the replayability of NES/SNES/PSX era titles came from "my entire collection is 25 games"
It's very profitable, so of course nothing is being done against him, the state religion of the USA begets that profit is more important than the country
Sweet ninjesus, i'm having a heart attack just imagining it