First off, no I'm not one of those people that believes Coronavirus is instadeath to anyone who gets it, and yes, I understand most of the people experiencing the worst of it, including dying are mostly older people. However, its impact on society cannot be understated as its already caused a massive societal panic and people have started to buy up tons of essential items and not so essential items as some form of doomsday stockpile.
For fear of sounding like Seether *shudders* the stock market has been the most volatile it's been since 2008, and in some ways not since 1929. There's no doubt much of this has to do with the economical impact of the virus the world over, but it also represents a much more fundamental problem with our economic system and the many markets that make it up. Pretty much, the world is skating the edge of an economic crisis, which unfortunately entails companies going out of business, layoffs, lower wages, and pretty much people reverting to purchasing necessities to survive.
So with all that doom and gloom out of the way, how do you see all this impacting our little hobby? The title specifies a rather vague and general category of the "video game market" which I mean to include everything from the current industry, but also the value of retro games and the collector's market. How do you see these areas of video game being impacted by the current events of our world? Do you think the video game industry is going to crash again, will prices on retro games finally plummet, or nothing happen and everything will more or less be the same after everything has run its course? Your thoughts.