Game Prices are going up again!

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

Games for the Switch 2 will cost $80-$90. Plus, GTA VI will probably be priced at $100 and still sell well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc14FuLhAzc

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引用自 Mega Ultra Chicken：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfCOx3WDBDM&t=35s

Posting another video without acknowledging that games have always been expensive and that you have never owned them doesn't prove your point.

[Tonepoet]

Bad news everybody. The prices Nintendo gave for the switch were indeed pre-tariff, and the console price will go up if they go into effect[www.tomshardware.com]. However, with that having been said, Vietnam is trying to negotiate the tariff rate[www.reuters.com].

引用自 smokerob79：

引用自 Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨：

I'm still adjusting to $70, I only bought three games at that price so far.

hi new kid....paid 80 bucks for N64 games in 1996 and im not even in Canada....people need to stop acting like this is the first games have been this high....

First, the Nintendo 64 should not be used as the litmus test of what a game cost in the late 1990s. Nintendo stuck with cartridges that generation, when both Sony and Sega had moved on to optical disks, and that jacked up the price relative to their competitors.

Second, $80 is sort of the upper limit for Nintendo 64 games. In fact, you can see here that

Here's a page out of a 1996 toys R us catalogue.

Here you can see Nintendo 64 games ranged from $60–75 depending on game, whereas playstation games only cost $40–$55. Twisted Metal 2 isn't even a bag game for $40, and on Nintendo's side we see that Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 were both $60 games. To be fair, here's an example of Star Fox 64 costing $80 and Mario Kart 64 costing $70 from E.B. but that's another thing. Back in the day you were more or less stuck paying the price your local stores listed.

Here in 1999 we see that three of the four dreamcast games were $47, except for Sonic Adventure which was $50.[x.com]

引用自 Dwerklesberry：

Yea game prices have always been above $70
https://infographicsite.com/infographic/console-game-prices-inflation-adjusted/


but there is one difference, your parents could afford that price because their home prices weren't insane because they hadn't let a stupid amount of people into Canada and the US yet.

Not everything tracks evenly with inflation. It's an average devaluation of the dollar. Tech in general usually hasn't tracked with inflation, so we have an expectation of price stability.

According to Electric Games Monthly Issue 243[thenextweb.com], average prices on launch for $30-50 for N.E.S. games, $50-60 for N.E.S. games, $50 for N64 games and $50 for Playstation 2 games. Those prices would often go down as the console was out for longer too.

We're basically saying it was fairly typical to pay $50 for a game from 1986 all of the way up until 2005. which is a time span of about 19 years. That lasted until about 2020 when take two launched NBA 2K21 for $70 in 2020[arstechnica.com] , which is a time period of about 15 years. (We should also keep in mind that some games, such as Street Fighter Ⅳ were only $40 on launch during the $60 era.)

Keeping that in mind, it feels too soon for another price adjustment. However, with that having been said, inflation hit hard in recent years and if we were to adjust for inflation since July 2020 it'd cost $86.20[www.bls.gov]. We're probably saying the games should cost more like $85 since prices below $100 are set typically set in $5 increments, and while $80 for a digital game beats that, $90 for a physical cart is looking a bit overpriced, particularly since physical and digital have (for whatever reason) shared the same M.S.R.Ps.