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My only issue with this was that back when I was doing used games, the discount was deep. I was picking up ps1 disks for $15 and GameCube for $20 when xbox 360 disks were $60. Now I'm lucky to pay $60 for a used ds game. Used isn't cheap anymore, its become "collectable".

Used PS4 games are typically $10-15. Last-gen stuff is as cheap as it's ever been, particularly after accounting for inflation. Also, $60 is on the higher end for a DS game. Most stuff that isn't Pokemon goes for way less than that, particularly if you don't care about the box and manual.

Where do you live, thats insane.

yeah sure, but a lot of people that are actually playing ds games aren't playing on an actual ds. emulation on PC and playing ROMs on chinese handhelds are very common on the global south

The specifics have definitely changed and the "cheap path" to gaming may not be secondhand or last-gen hardware in every case. It certainly has never been "valuable collectable." But it has been web games, mobile games, shared school or neighborhood PCs or bangs in various times and places

did this guy not grow up playing flash games on a mid laptop? I spend pennies on old mobile devices to play niche games on them. I played hours of NES on a gifted toy console that costs like a bag of chips...

It seems like following your logic to its conclusion, the long term impact of the AIpocalypse on console gaming will be that five randomly selected countries will soon have an entire generation of kids exclusively playing games on the Sega Master System

Substitute whatever hardware surplus exists that's better than a raspberry pi but uses RAM that's no use for data centers at all. I mean heck, maybe there is a market of kinds in this. I spent three hours yesterday watching five kids play games continuously on a $150 used Nex Playground, ao

No I predict it will be, due to geopolitical forces yet to reveal themselves, the Sega Master System specifically