Rs pulled this shit when they raised their pricing for subscription, everyone knows its greed. A fully online game shouldn't be affected by inflation much
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People really don't seem to understand that video game prices have not kept up with inflation. It's why I didn't bat an eye at spending $70 on Baldur's Gate 3 despite the original costing like $50. When you account for inflation, it's actually cheaper.
That said, I avoid Nintendo on principle. Refusing to sell old games so that they can sue people who pirate them is ghoulish and inhuman. As long as Gary Bowser is forced to pay them, I never will.
Mario Kart iteration and no first sale doctrine, fuck that
Game companies can get my sympathy when wages begin to keep up with inflation. Otherwise, it belongs to the pirates and emus. You can "it's not their fault" all the way to "doesn't matter, it's still my problem".
The expandinon ofmarket, competition and the cheaper methods of distribution.
An expanding market and competition don't change the fact that prices go up when prices go up. I suppose I can grant that it's cheaper to sell ones and zeros over the internet than it is to ship a bunch of discs to every GameStop. But still, physical manufacturing and distribution make up a small percentage of the price of a game
As long as profit go up, you prices is not all that important.
That's a terrible argument. Gary was selling their games. Any company was going to go after someone doing such a thing.
Gary was modifying hardware that people owned. That the modifications he was doing allowed for the play of pirated games is not in itself piracy. Besides, there is no fucking way he personally cost them enough money to justify having to pay them 30% of every dollar he makes for the rest of his life.
It's not that Mario Kart is worth 90, it's that a lot of these AAA games aren't worth 60.
Well, and also Mario Kart isn't worth $90
it's worth $40 at best imo
Pre switch it was 40$, we saw the sign when SWSH was 60$+ DLC
Keep consuming and keep the enshitification machine working, you control everything around you with your wallet and your attention.
These companions took ahold of both and now you're a slave.
A bit of an exaggeration. Your wallet speaks, sure. But I haven't been to a lot of places in years, some even for decades and they're still doing just fine. I didn't buy any Nintendo console from the NES until I got a Wii paying half with a friend.
Oh just wait until Nintendo shits out another half baked pokemon game that looks like a student project from 2005 and watch all the man children that think being obsessed with pokemon is a personality triat pay $90 for that shit.
Pokémon fans are a different breed. GameFreak could literally release a game worse than gen 1 and it would be a fight to the bottom to see how they could defened it.
"Oooh, retro!"
With the switch 2 coverage, this is something that bugs me quite a bit.... Not the meme, Nintendo games, by comparison, are worth more than the slop that Ubisoft craps out. No matter how good a Ubisoft game could be, Nintendo has them beat in terms of quality.
Back to my point. The cost of games is insane. The price point for most video game systems is around $500 USD. Whether PS5, Xbox, switch, whatever, they're all either at or near, $500.
You buy 6 games, and you've spent more in games than you did on your console. The fuck is this? We might as well go back to the days when you would buy a whole ass console that could only play a single (or small selection) of games like the Coleco Telstar.
I think they figured out that you make money from selling the add-ons, so they dipped the price of the console and jacked up the cost of all of the games so they could increase profits and shareholder value.
Oh wait.
Game consoles are sold at a loss. You are supposed to buy more games than the console costs.
Here is a nice little inflation chart I've assembled:
You people are upset about (analogy) gas being 5.31 a gallon when you should be upset that you don't make enough to afford gas at 5.31 a gallon. You should make enough to afford a $450 switch 2, and the fact that you don't is because your masters have been stealing from you for 30+ years. Or since forever, if you're as woke as me.
NES
1985 $179 -> 2025 $528
Games $49.99 -> $147
SNES
1991 $199 -> 2025 $464
Games $49.99 -> $116
Super Mario All-Stars $59.99 -> $140
N64
1996 $199 -> 2025 $403
Games $59.99 -> $121
GameCube
2001 $199 -> 2025 $355
Games $49.99 -> $89
Gameboy
1989 $89.99 -> 2025 $230
Games $29.99 -> $76
Gameboy Advance
2001 $99.99 -> 2025 $178
Games $34.99 -> $62
Nintendo DS
2004 $149.99 -> 2025 $251
Games $29.99 -> $50
Playstation 1
1995 $299 -> 2025 $622
Games $49.99 -> $104
Playstation 2
2000 $299 -> 2025 $552
Games $49.99 -> $92
X-Box
2001 $299 -> 2025 $535
Games $49.99 -> $89
Sega Genesis
1989 $189 -> 2025 $483
Games $59.99 -> $153
Sega Dreamcast
1999 $199 -> 2025 $380
Games $49.99 -> $95
the slop that Ubisoft craps out
I'd, uh, argue there are some exceptions, like the better asscreed games or the anno series.
Nintendo games, by comparison, are worth more than the slop that Ubisoft craps out
Agree, I grew up with Playstation up until the ps3. I have never owned a Nintendo console my whole life and the only Mario games I've tried is the O.G back then, but it's clear to me that Nintendo put better effort into every bit of design of their IP release.
I know the Jazz scene would go nuts over a "Mario Kart Lick", and I never played Mario Kart even once.
The only thing stopping me from owning their console is the lack of regional pricing.
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The last Ubisoft game I purchased was Cliffs over Dover.
Yes but consider:
A: Nintendo games are actually good, not a pile of crap
B: It is actually true that games have not been keeping up with inflation. Is the same reason why GTA 6 is waiting for launch. They really want to sell that shit at 100 USD or more
I haven't pirated a game in over a decade, but...
Okay I get this but there's a big difference in that Nintendo games are generally excellent
It's like comparing a hot dog made of shit vs actual quality food.
The amount of bootlickers I'm starting to see in Nintendo's YouTube comments is pathetic
Pay to use hardware button that offers 10 FPS pre-skype era fidelity is totally a good thing to show off, and Nintendo has totally never been the only company to notoriously harass, litigate, and shutdown mods, tournaments, homebrew. emulators, fan projects, and literally anyone who so much as so glances at their Intellectual Property.
Utterly delusional
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Same for AC Shadows. "You don't have to buy the cosmetics!" Motherfucker every single bit of content should be in a game that you paid full price for.
Its Todd's fault.
Fucking horse armor.
no it's the customers. though once we ridiculed Bethesda for horse armor, people now fork over 20, 40, 100 dollars for a fucking skin. I'm sorry is an overwatch skin supposed to be worth a third of a full game? yeah I bet it took two years to develop it.
... You're right.
People get abaolutely addicted to mtx, and at this point, you'd have to societally treat mtx, and legally regulate mtx like cigarettes, to actually address the problem.
Todd may have... invented the potion, or uncorked the bottle... but way, way too many people just keep gulping it down.
They are the equivalent of Disney Adult
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also, at least ubisoft shit goes on sale, and the used copies are less expensive…
for nintendo, once in a blue moon the game will have a 10$ discount and that’s it
Because Ubisoft only sells shit. Nobody's paying $60 when they'll just make the same game and slap the next year on it in 10 months from now.
At least Nintendo games are quality made. (Pokémon doesn't count - that's made by Game freak)
i said ubisoft but quality stuff by sony or microsoft (or any big studio) goes on sale too like a year after its released
for nintendo, a 7 year old rerelease of an 11 year old game is full price! even at retail! and the used copies aren’t much cheaper!
the only mario games on switch that go on sale are the mario + rabbids games, which are pretty good (definitely better than some 1st party nintendo stuff). the reason they go on sale, well, they’re published by ubisoft!
nintendo doesn’t allow their games to go on sale. the only times it happens is either they felt like giving you a 5% discount, or the game is so shit it ends up in clearance bins
This isn't entirely true. I got Zelda TOTK for $40 on release. Kind of.
I bought Costco Nintendo gift cards which saves you $20 (if I remember right) and then bought the combo pack deal which included TOTK. It came out to getting every game for $40 each. Of course, the physical copy is a whole different story.
I really miss the Nintendo Selects, but I’m pretty sure those died with the digital push.
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And Nintendo lawsuits going after grandmas.
Not only that, Ubisoft is actually the only one so far who has spent more money a full legal team to go against anyone who dares to do a honest review of their latest pile of dogshit, namely, ACS, than they spent in the development of the game itself
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