This is true. Who wants to spend all that money at once. My PC may be more expensive than I console but I spent no more than $250 at a time as I upgraded it. People don't need $1000 graphics cards to play modern games.

I had a ps3 and a ps4 and was fully up for getting a ps5. Then it came out right around COVID time and I couldn't get one anywhere because of scalpers. So I thought, "No worries, I'll just wait a year or two and pick one up for cheap." Then it just never got cheaper. Now it's like a 5-6 year old machine that costs over $900 CAD so I just never bothered.

And in the midst of these increasing hardware costs Sony thinks people would not mind paying the premium for their digital only games, completely killing the second hand and retail markets, bless their heart.