What were they before? I feel like they might actually be cheaper now adjusted for inflation.
For a long time “$60” was the standard for releases. Then nintendo was like “we go to adjust for inflation”. But spoilers, they never lower the price on their 1st party games ever. Botw, a 10 year old game is retailing for $70.
My memory is hazy but I seem to recall major Sega Genesis releases being $60
Inflation outpaces wages. You have to also convert those into modern dollars to get a better idea of the cost of things for the average consumer.
All these calculations are skewed by the increase in housing costs that have outpaced other inflation calculations.
For the median and poor this has a much larger and unacknowledged effect, creating more price pressures for average people than basic inflation reporting depicts.
Also: everyone buys them anyway, so why wouldn’t they charge as much as possible?
This is the truth.
The price is ridiculous but why lower it? It sells. That’s a key point to capitalism. The argument about Nintendo “killing” other capitalist endeavors is just so weak in the face of that. Indie games are king right now, steam is probably the biggest distributor right now. It has nothing to do with competition, it’s all demand.
the problem with this shit is ‘no I want to fix the problem without changing anything’.
Bruh, you really need to shorten up your populism. “Capital bad” shouldn’t take such of a long winded paragraph
