Game prices for the past 30 years haven’t kept pace with inflation.
I recognise the argument that publishers are shifting larger volumes of units now, which has been a factor that has allowed the industry to keep price increases below inflation for the last 30 years.
Wages not being even close to keeping up with inflation (especially housing inflation) is the real issue here, not the $70/$80 video game.
You should be angry at your reduced purchasing power in all of society, not just with the price of Nintendo games.
(Secondary less unpopular opinion, the best games out these days are multiplatform and released at least 5 years ago, buy them for << $80 and wait for sale the new releases, when they too are 5 years old)
Jup, have had that thought before. And i think another Factor is that people now own more games than back then. Making their collection more expensive and equal to that what a few games cost in the past.
So we Always sortoff spend the same part of our budget for games, and only now when the price is rising it takes more out of our budget.
So we feel like the price is rising in an unfair manner .
The average quality of games has both gone up in terms of graphics and smooth gameplay but down on being interesting and innovative. I’d say this is also kind of part of the issue.
Baldur’s Gate 3 in my opinion was allowed to cost more than 60 euros just because it was so well made and was innovative for the genre.
Mario Kart 9 Open World though? It’s literally just mario kart again but with a kinda useless open world, why should that cost 80 euros?