>>723172548
First of all, you're talking about the past 25 years. OP's topic is about the years between the 1970s and 2000, during the transition between arcade-centered gaming industry to a console-centered gaming industry. In this period, the rise in the cost of things like housing, education, healthcare were still manageable.

Second of all, you're only talking about first world problems. Over the past 25 years, billions of people have been lifted out of poverty thanks to globalization and the developed world outsourcing so many jobs to third-world countries and importing so many immigrants from them as well. Overall, things have never been better for all of humanity.

And in the first world, people have adjusted. The first-world poor, despite staying poor, now have cheap access to internet, smartphones and F2P video games. Even on console and PC, F2P dominate. The availability of video games has never been broader as the biggest and most popular games can be played entirely for free. So, despite many in the first world becoming relatively poorer over the past 25 years, video games have become far more accessible to them.

>>714748857
ok

>>714587903
Adjusted for inflation the industry hasn't grown as much as people like to pretend it has except in mobile gaming.

>>714566049
Yes?
It's not exactly unknown that microtransactions make bank. Why is Thor acting like this is industry knowledge?

>>528636772
mobile is king
there's a reason mhy will never drop mobile support for all of their games