This administration refusing to regulate AI and enabling the memory/part shortage + tariffs increasing the cost of shipping/manufacturing for no reason = everything is more expensive and companies spike their prices/cut corners to compensate.
It's not rocket science.
gamedev is so terrible rn. Every day you wake up and read a news article that says "xbox filled another successful dev studio office with killer bees and locked the doors" and then some guy in the comments is like "good, no more woke"