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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

"$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I'm going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead."

Sure. But it's also a choice between a library that will forever cost $70 00-$90.00 per game, and a game library infamous for game sales so good that an average player cannot finish their library because the seasonal sales are too good to pass up.