Ocarina of Time was $60 in '98. Today that's about $118. I think we should count ourselves lucky that we had 30 years of games not going up in price alongside inflation.
Gaming found different ways to extract dollars rather than raising prices. On top of that, those were big years for growth.Â
These days, gaming is not exceptionally growing like it was, and new methods to extract more money are not really happening. So we get price increases instead.Â
This is the way of investors demanding year over year growth. If you cannot get it another way, it comes as a major price increase.Â
Oh my bad, I forgot that Mario Kart and Donkey Kong have massive, paid battle passes and cash shops filled with skins to help supplement the low price of their game.
Brother, use your brain for 2 seconds instead of trying to craft some complex narrative as to why prices are going up. The simplest reason is usually the correct one.
The simplest reason is that investors demand year over year growth and they aren’t coming up with new ways to extract money from you, so price increases happen.Â
Brother. Use your brain. This is how public markets work.Â
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u/kittenTakeover 21h ago
I remember somewhere around 2000 good games cost $40-50. In today's dollars that's $75-95.