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Will you pay $500?
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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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No, I expect (not really, because greed) that as companies make bank with not only charging for subscriptions and MTX, but the fact that the gaming industry made around $20 billion in the 90s and $184 billion in 2022, that they can charge reasonable prices and still make money hand over fist. But I get it, they charge the absolute maximum that gamers will tolerate, and it's ultimately gamers' fault.
And yet, Steam prices exist. Consistently less than console, and I know they could charge more and people would pay. Maximizing the price of everything all the time is the least consumer-friendly way to make money, and most certainly not the only way.
If a price is seen to be unreasonable, it is the duty of the consumer to not bend over and take whatever is charged without complaint, whether it's for necessities or on luxury good like video games. It is not necessary to use anti-consumer practices to make money, despite what capitalism has trained you to think.
If that were the only issue with capitalism, that would be great! But it's just one small symptom out of many. There's no denying Nintendo is being very aggressive here with pricing, and at a particularly uncertain time for the world's economies, to boot. I'm curious to see just how much BS their market will take from them. I'm sure the first year or so, they'll sell out easily as they struggle to meet demand; it's after that I'm interested to see.
Being the first in the industry to charge $80 for a standard game is extremely aggressive.
Who was, and what was the game?
I'm talking about now, not 30 years ago when the market was completely different. None of those companies have charged more that $70 for a BASE version of a game - I'm not talking about definitive, ultimate, whatever editions. Mario Kart World is JUST the base game, nothing else included, for $80.
I’m glad at least one person in this thread knows how inflation works. However, as I’ve recently researched, games started costing $60 in 2005, which lands us at 90$ in today’s money.
That would be fine if wages had kept up with inflation. They have not, at all.
I don't think it's a game publisher's problem if you haven't had a raise in 20 years.
Wages were also comparatively higher in the 1990s. Prices go up, but wages don't keep pace. Simply converting the currency doesn't tell the whole story.