What is reasonable price for a video game? What is a reasonable price for 30+ hours of entertainment, sometimes 100+?

paying $10 for nintendo switch welcome tour should put you on a list

at least you still own that s***. mfs paying $11 / month every single month to own none of their music

is there a law that game prices must grow 1:1 with inflation or something

why are yall so worried about it

also true

well "owning" on the switch 2 is questionable

lol

You'll drop $100+ for a concert. I want everything as cheap as possible but this convo is never consistent with other artforms.

inflation changes the value of each dollar, so my point is it is not at all surprising or unexpected that game prices would rise in line with inflation. if you reference my post from the first page we actually are ironically getting a deal vs. when we paid $60 in 2005. if they actually matched 1:1 with inflation we'd be paying $100

yeah honestly that is very fair. all hell gonna break loose when they take down the license servers in 20 years. that really is a shame

good talk bro you are clearly highly informed and have great counter-points

Yeah a list of REAL GAMERS

#IBoughtIt

Not clicking this ever

there's a sucker born every minute

This why I don't fw PS+ and avoid buying off the PS Store as far as I can Doesn't sit well with me that I can only "own" and play games as long as I have a membership/internet connection

If I paid for something, I want to own that s***.

vote with your wallets guys! but $50 for MKW was well worth it <3

how are we getting a deal when they are still monetizing literally every possible aspect of the gaming experience

or when our earning power hasnt grown 1:1 with inflation

or we get sold a incomplete package at full price and have to wait for 8 updates to get what we were marketed

or when they were already profitable at the previous price point and the only reason they are raising money is to be even more profitable

I’ve been digital only since 2013 and haven’t had a single issue and have access to all my games I ever bought

Why are we worried about inflation in a discussion about the increase in price of a product

ahhhh see you're not wrong but you're expanding the scope of the argument. it IS f***ed up that we (as a collective) don't earn 2x more vs. 2005 while the value of the dollar has nearly halved. but that's not Nintendo's fault, they're not the ones dishing out your salary... (maybe brings up a good question of how much nintendo employee wages have risen since 2005)

if nintendo's costs have increased 33% since 2005, why would they not increase the cost of the game 33% to maintain their margins? they are a COMPANY, not your friend and not a non-profit

also in this particular example it's not like MKW is incomplete or ridden with micro-transactions and bs like that to unlock the full experience of the game

are you Jerome Powell bro?

we are the f***ing consumers in this scenario, why are we championing anti-consumer practices

Someone delete anti-consumer from the gamer lexicon. It is not anti-consumer to charge X price for your product.