Why can't people get it through their fucking thick ass skulls that even though inflation happened, games costing the same is not a problem for companies because their market is exponentially bigger than it was back in the day?! And it keeps growing!!
Every time I hear a fucking nintendo simp defending the price hike with "BuT gAMeS cOsT ThE sAme DeSpITe iNflAtIon" it makes my blood boil.
Why do these fucking companies need more money anyway? they already make enough SMFH
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@Gatitasecsii inflation + bigger games + bigger teams + bigger budgets = higher price.
i'm of the opinion that games need to be drastically scaled down and a lot of the industry needs to be cut with a focus on smaller, tighter experiences. that's kind of what indie games are for, though.
as far as nintendo goes, i guess we'll have to wait and see if $80 is really worth it for mario kart or not. it doesn't seem like they have shown that much of it. there could be another situation like tears of the kingdom where the depths weren't talked about at all, they were just in the game for players to find. personally, i know i will get $80 worth of mario kart world either way, just because i am a huge mario kart fan and will likely play it for hundreds of hours, but if other people don't think that then i guess we will see a change in direction.
i do know that with how many people already don't want to buy a lot of AAA games at $70 or even $60 (or in the case of something like concord, even $40), with tons of studios closing down because of it. things are going to be accelerating faster now with the game industry i think, if these companies are really going to try pushing for their shitty games to be $80 without a huge change to every facet of development.
I've had a lot of fun with some long/AAA titles (God of War Ragnarök, the original FF7, Red Dead 2, Far Cry 4/5) but there are also some I've dumped $60 for something hyped a lot that turned out to be shit (I couldn't get past 2 hours of Elden Ring without hating everything about it. Hogwarts Legacy is fucking awful. I beat Far Cry 6, but it was still dumb. Kingdom Hearts is totally overrated).
Longer, bigger open world games are getting more exhausting.
Nintendo is the worst. They're games are honestly not even that good. I've never made it through a Zelda game. I made it through a lot of Mario Galaxy back when I had a Wii and just gave up. Xenoblade I had great story and fuck awful gameplay. I don't see why people love Nintendo. Their games suck, their prices suck and their consoles are mediocre at best. The Switch doesn't allow you to backup your saves without a paid network account, and the PS5 also removed individual save backups (which the PS4 had!).
@djsumdog @Gatitasecsii no game company is without their issues, but i personally do like nintendo games. i wish i didn't because then i could just drop them because of their shitty legal strategies. the only times i've bought games for $60+ in the last decade have been Nintendo games, though. other than like, doom 2016. they're games i know i'll pretty much always enjoy.
personally, i also get extremely tired of the bloat that basically every AAA game has at this point. the crazy focus on massive open worlds has really tanked my enthusiasm for a lot of games. i like nintendo though and i know i'll play a lot of mario kart even if i don't do the open world stuff so that's fine with me personally.
also, i've said this before, but basically no games are $60 anymore. not from anyone. they might say they're $60, but then they've got microtransactions, and special editions, and paid early access, etc. and that's before we even take into account live service games.
i made the comparison to FFXIV where if you want to play the game for a year you'll be paying $216 minimum ($60 for the game with all the expansions + $156-$180 subscription). yet, FFXIV is literally the biggest MMO. these are prices people have been paying for a long, long time.
@beardalaxy @djsumdog
Well for me it's never been hard to look elsewhere to be honest, there has never been a game I've been unable to resist beside maybe BotW.
Otherwise I'm content replaying my old games or looking at indie alternatives.
And yeah a lot of AAA studios waste a ton of resources on garbage nobody needs...
Finally, yes I agrre a lot of games now have hidden prices, but that's all the more reason we should push back...