> if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back. Except in the short term, does

> if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back. Except in the short term, doesn't increased demand for chips generally decrease unit prices, rather than increases them? Do you really think there was such a large shock, and prices rose so fast, that this permanently hobbled VR uptake even years later when chips are cheaper than they would be in the absence of crypto and DL?