This is up to the manufacturers, supply chain, and how they CHOOSE to manage their business in the interest of profit and shareholder value.
Why would a supplier ever want their product to sell for BELOW the MSRP? They shouldn't. It means the product being sold isn't being sold for what the manufacturer thinks it's worth. So for one, it's just bad optics.
Beyond that, the most important thing to a publicly traded business is going to be profit for sustainable growth.
People can blame miners, crypto prices, gamers, or whatever all they want. None of it is actually relevant. It really boils down to the manufacturer, supply chain and how they CHOOSE to manage their business in the interest of profit and shareholder value. If anyone thinks it's because of consumers, rather they be gamers or miners, they have been brainwashed by a corporation who is using their own customers as a scapegoat. SHAME!
Yea I agree when I was studying in my Master degree in Finance I learned that in a capitalism market the number one goal is "Short-Term Profit Maximisation", the rest is secondary. This is why capitalism must be somehow regulated by the governments otherwise there is abuses.