Morning Op Ed [May 22, 2025, 11:58 am ET] – 2 Comments
Video games' soaring prices have a cost beyond your wallet - the concept of
ownership itself - Eurogamer.net. "The other cost - perhaps the real
cost, when things settle - is the notion of ownership itself. Plenty of
physical media collectors, aficionados and diehards will tell you this has
been locked in the sights of this industry for a long time, of course. They
will point to gaming's sister entertainment industries of music, film and
television, and the paradigm shift to streaming in each, as a sign of the
inevitability of it all. And they will undoubtedly have a point. But this
step change in the cost of gaming will only be an accelerant."