In what has already been an exceptionally rough time lately for gamers in the PC hardware market, it's about to get worse, especially if you've been eyeing up a brand new MSI graphics card, motherboard, or gaming laptop.
In fact, MSI just revealed that a general price rise on gaming products is coming, and it could be anywhere from 15–30% per product, all to combat what MSI general manager Huang Jinquing calls "the most challenging year since the company was founded."
This is quite a bold statement, as MSI is a staple of the computing and gaming markets, having been founded in 1986. Granted, it is incredibly hard to recall another moment in time where the perfect storm of availability, demand, tariffs, and developing tech created such a monumental groundswell. RAM struggles are well-documented by now, and with threats looming for next-gen home consoles as well as the current PC gaming market, MSI's price hikes are both expected and a gut punch at the same time.
Most notable from the interview with Huang (machine translated from United Daily News in Taiwan) is MSI's intention to switch focus away from budget or entry-level GPU SKUs due to "limited memory...
