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Real benefit of it is for investors. Trick people into consumer brand wars, and you'll get all the pros and cons of each side from a consumer perspective leaving just the corporation's finances and its long term plans as a question. Still happening with Tesla vs whatever, Nvidia vs AMD and etc.I use to be into consoomer brand wars. First it was consoles and then moved on to Apple vs Google. Stopped that argument 10 years ago.
Yeah, key point there being a shred of disposable income. Most people don't invest their money, and even more can't because they are rentoids in cities and struggle to be self-sufficient. As for whether it compares to other hobbies, well you can get a pencil and paper for like £3, and start drawing. I'd say it's near the bottom of "luxury" hobbies, like miniature wargaming, LARP'ing, cosplaying, book collecting(some people collect books as opposed to reading them. I can understand it if its different translations of books you really enjoy, but otherwise it's just another investment), Funko Pop collecting, X collecting(Usually collecting comes with consumption of the media, but some things are... bad like Funko Pops).As soon as you have even a shred of disposable income as a working adult though, console and gaming PC prices are laughable if you compare them to many other hobbys' costs. So if you're a gaming enthusiast, you're gonna get a good gaming PC and one or two consoles of your preference for the living room and then just play whatever you want.
I would also argue most people are like pigeons. Collecting and hoarding useless tat.
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