[gambiting]

Your average "gamer" according to the industry's own statistics is a 25-29 male, owns one of the consoles, and buys exactly 3 games a year - Fifa, CoD, and one other action game. Maybe 4 if it's a good year. It's definitely not your stereotypical "gamer" type buying RGB everything - so yeah, I would guarantee that this kind of average gamer does not care about their "gear" being attention grabbing.

[emodendroket]

Again, I don't think this is the person going out of their way to get scarce launch units.

[thirdsun]

I’m not sure how scarcity during launch is relevant to this particular discussion. The design of the console, which was the original issue discussed here, will be the same whenever the console becomes widely available.

On the other hand I agree that looks won’t be the deciding factor for any potential buyer - casual or not.