There's plenty of game time after you retire. Ask me how I know.
There isn't a lot of disposable income for building the latest and greatest PC ever made ... which is compounded by current economics.
I can't think of a better reason to dig deeper into my backlog of older unplayed (and under played) games. Maybe by the time I've cleared the list, this whole memory shortage thing and need for a state-of-the-art system will have passed over. The tech paradigm will have changed significantly...
How many times does the average consumer plug/unplug their cables from their power supply? My guess is a very low number for a niche-specific group. Seems like a solution looking for a problem.