According to IGNs statisticsgetting video game consoles fewer expensive since their inception. As a product becomes more ubiquitous, production methods become more sophisticated and efficient, competition lowers consumer costs, and the product becomes readily available to the growing market. Inflation, supply chain shortages and even the looming threat of a total recession are an aftershock of quarantine (and serious mismanagement by private and public ruling powers(but that’s a bigger article, we’re here to rant about headphones.) With a market flooded with increasingly cheaper options, Sony really thinks we’ve got $230 to cough up from our COVID-riddled lungs for a headset with a mic that isn’t even that great? We have no savings, our only joy is to tell children to cry to their fathers if we end them in Fortnite. And we need a gaming mic that can pick up our words loud and clear.

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