Gaming Industry - Have we officially entered a CRASH?

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The term "crash" is often considered a very strong and over exaggerated term. Often over-used also over the last few years.
But this article does a fairly good job of summing things up.
https://shattered.io/xbox-ps5-sales-cra ... cent-2026/

Been looking on Amazon over the last 10 months and noticed the consoles becoming less and less available. Many times when they are not listed at all...instead of them being there with "currently sold out" tag on display. Just ....gone completely.

So less of a situation of them selling out, but rather retailers no longer want to store them in warehouses due to massive decline in purchases.
Prices being driven through the roof, demand has tumbled to a point they are a liability to retail storage spaces?

As AI data centres continue to drive up the cost of RAM, to where current consoles are unaffordable, and being at the tail end of a generation where the next systems will be even more expensive....how is this going to play out?