Yet again proves that capitalism is a cancer, and they’ll never be happy with anything, except for endless exponential growth

How about buying only one or two dolls for their kids?

The kinda prices a Mario Kart, Pokemon, or GTA can maybe ask for. Try that on a Star Wars Outlaws and the sales nosedive, I reckon.

I think the industry is gonna try to normalize these prices and crash pretty hard, cause they’ll budget their productions thinking they can sell for 90 bucks but forget they‘re neither GTA nor Mario Kart.

Then again, Dynasty Warriors Origins is 79 on Steam, I wonder how that performed for KOEI.

I mean. Yeah. When Goldeneye came out for the N64 it was like $90 and that was in nintiesbux. We got real used to standardized pricing when discs came around but it's true that you can't have it both ways. Now, there's a reasonable argument to be had over whether Mario Kart World and GTA6 are both gonna be worth >$80. I bought Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey for whatever they retailed for. Was that $70? I can't remember. But I had more fun and put more hours that year into Hollow Knight, which cost me $15 and kept dumping free DLC for like a year or so afterward. The price was great. The DLC was free. But it also didn't cost like $2bln or whatever dumbass cost they're saying GTA6 cost to make.

I didn't ask them to make it that stupid big and expensive. But some fans did. They're in that Smash Bros situation where they aren't allowed not to top the previous entry in terms of scope. So it is what it is.

Should all games be $80-90? Of course not. Should games that cost a billion or more to develop and promise hundreds or thousands of hours of gameplay cost $80-90? I think it's embarrassing and immature to suggest otherwise. Even if you just go back to 2006 and the $60 standard, and adjust that for inflation, you end up at $95. So this isn't really an argument any serious person should be having when we talk about whether the most expensive game ever made should cost functionally less than its Xbox 360 forerunner.

Every games is free if you know where to look