So many people got into gaming late in life, not because they didn't want to game, but because of the price barrier. This is the story with sooo many of my BIPOC friends and honestly, it's frustrating. When we think about diversifying an industry price is a BIG piece of that.

This is why the biggest win imo for gamers, not game companies, is GamePass, and the Series S. This will let so many people get in on gaming that they're often locked out of. And the payment plan to boot. I know a lot of content creators may dismiss xbox bc they have pcs -

- but xbox is opening doors this gen. $70 is way too much for so many people, and the great thing is a lot of that will be available through GamePass which helps mitigate costs.

this matters to me because if we keep pushing and defending high price points we're setting up the next generation of gamers and through that gaming professionals to be self-selected through a price bracket, which will largely exclude BIPOC.

Anyway, gaming is expensive. But it shouldn't have to be.

AND before you say "$70 supports devs," bring that energy to pushing CXOs to not take 6 figure checks and redistribute earnings to its workers. Blizzard had it's most revenue and still laid-off hundreds of workers.

For context, my first console was a Play Station with 2 games (TR and TRII) my mother saved up for a full year to be able to buy me that console because up until then i hadn't had any "nice" toys. I only owned those 2 games for the life of the console.

Anyway - this is me, asking you, to think before you say the price isn't a big deal.