swankypantsuWhen Nintendo games were affordable
cyranoAgreed
DreamButtWages haven’t kept up with inflation so comparisons like this are only a small part of the picture
Agent KaryoThat’s a fucking wild bill if you are not from the US. One would almost think you are being scammed (I am talking about the deceptive structure of the bill, not the values).
In what way?
ChrisGuessing it’s the sales tax? Most countries will price things with tax included, not add it on afterwards.
The weird discount application and the sales taxes.
The sales tax always drove me nuts (and in total I loved in North America for a decade), I could never get it over it.
Where I live we just get an item list (with true cost per item) and a subtotal.
icecreamtacoUsed games are always cheaper, what point does this make?
Well, at least used games used to be a thing that you could buy.
Still are. The Switch still takes cartridges.
Used to and still are.
GameCube games MSRP was 49.99. Adjusted for inflation it is $79.30. The reason things feel so expensive is because you get half cooked broken DLC ridden games as the norm and a large portion of income goes toward housing, transportation (cars specifically) and education.
Mhmm. Everyone is shitting on Nintendo, but the reality is their games are literally keeping up with inflation. The problem is that our wages haven’t kept up with inflation, and the cost of living has, at least, kept up. In some cases (rent), it’s grown faster than the inflation of everything else.
Don’t get me wrong, Nintendo is tone deaf for making this decision now, and I suspect they’d still make billions with a $15 price increase rather than a $30 one. I’m not defending them. But the picture is a lot larger than them.
If Nintendo always made games that didn’t need dlc or got free updates, didn’t require Nintendo online for full functionality, or had to pay a 30% platform fee, it would make much more sense for this price. I don’t believe for a second they won’t make a profit at $60 for their mainline games.
You’re also forgetting maybe the biggest factor: library selection. We used to have a lot of choices, but not literal thousands of choices across all our platforms. If we only had our choice of a few hundred games, $80 might sound more reasonable.
theres also the chance that at least for TTYD, that was a players choice version of the game, which retailed for 20$ new. since its 2006, on the wake of the Wii
Point of the story is we should never have turned our backs on GameStop and the small game, dvd and record stores.
To be fair, I never did until it was already like half Funko pops. And honestly it was mostly because I just moved and there isn’t one nearby.
BlackmistThe half price games on various platforms (“Platinum” on playstation, can’t remember what they were called in other platforms) were great and made me get into consoles.
Feels like the PS4 gen when that stopped happening. Shame, because it’s not like you can magic your customers into having more money to spend. They’ll just buy fewer games.
HaessOriginal Nintendo games were $50 back in the day… Always regret buying Predator.