If you wait a little while, the digital version can usually be found online for around $80 less than retail.
Hrr hrr
Submitted 4 weeks ago by hmmm@sh.itjust.works to animemes@ani.social
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tacosplease@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I do love these sites that do giveaways of games a few days before release. I and all my friends won Tears of the Kingdom and were able to finish it unspoiled.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I wonder if we’ll one day just recycle game ideas so much there will be enough games for a whole lifetime and there are no new good ideas left.
Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We’ve had books since ancient Greece and people are still writing new stories.
Plot points, mechanics, and character tropes will get recycled and mixed around, but there’s always going to be something “new.”
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, especially as society changes, books will be written to match that. There are so many good books though :-)
Bleys@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People have said the same thing about music forever. Chess, which is just 16 pieces on an 8x8 board, famously has more possible game sequences than their are atoms in the universe. And modern video games have infinitely more variables than just 16 pieces constrained to 64 tiles.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well IMO you prove my point with chess, no new “Chess II” has detroned the game, it’s one game and for many people it’s enough.
applemao@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But music is stagnated now because everything has been done, ai makes most pop music, and a new “song” is released every minute. We have far surpassed there ever being originality again.
Hopefully people will still want live performance by a human because that is all that’s left for the arts. Corpos will destroy it with ai slop that normal people won’t be able to differentiate from human creation.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It all pretty much also depends on the way technology progresses in real time. Better specs will always open up new possibilities, new ideas.
Maybe it would end up like this one day, but only if progress in technology has come to a halt.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So VR and AI? Maybe you’re right.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We already at that point, game ideas just get mixed
RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Is there even a specific type of game that has every good idea that would fit in already made into a game?
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That is probably a terrible idea, like a painting using “all colors”.
4am@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I thought that was only in Europe? 80€ vs 90€
In the US (as the meme implies) and physical and digital copies of MKW are both $79.99, and DK Bananza is $69.99.
Of course that’s not gonna sick thanks to Orange moron
Petter1@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Are they not sold by nintendo US? I mean, they can not tax data sent from nintendo jp to Nintendo US, can they?
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Berzerk came out for the Atari 2600 in 1982 for about $30. That’s $98 today. And that didn’t take the labor of a movie studio to produce and sell. It was kinda simple.
My lawn. Off of it.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It also required expensive ROM chips and cartridge assembly and came in a full color box with a full color manual.
Digital games don’t come with anything and don’t cost anything to ship.
Not to mention that salaries have absolutely not kept up with inflation so it’s not like that money is going to the developers.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A color box and manual, how… chic. As to salaries, of course you’re right, but Atari was paying a couple of dudes vs. several teams creating a modern game.
Anyway, love to see gamers whining about prices as we head into a world where obtaining food is a challenge.
Signtist@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah, and they sold significantly fewer copies because video games weren’t a popular household product at the time; they needed a higher markup to make a reasonable profit. Mario Kart 8 sold nearly 76 million copies. Nintendo made well over a reasonable profit on that game even with a significantly smaller markup, and they would easily continue to do so with the subsequent entry at the same price.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Solid point! But yes, the Atari 2600 was in pretty much every middle-class home at the time. Didn’t get mine for years later because my parent’s lived the Depression and WWII, didn’t see the value in a $100 game. :)
So you’re saying economies of scale and population made goods cheaper? That’s sounds suspiciously like capitalism.
calavera@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
The sales volume was pretty small though, so it’s not an apples to apples comparison
sag@ani.social 4 weeks ago
I can relate with : Me when a game exceed my budget(0$).
applemao@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not defending it, but n64 games were $80 when they came out. And that was a lot then (probably like the cost of 3 eggs today!)
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And things are supposed to get cheaper as technology and processes are improved (and N64 games were large complex cartridges that were expensive to produce).
Yes the quality of games has improved overall, but the market has also grown, meaning things like economy of scale and commodification typically come into play. Additionally the tooling for making games has been dramatically improved, digital art tools are better, game engines are pre packaged with a bow on top and development is (or can be) done in high level memory managed programming languages like c#. It’s easier than ever to make good games right now, every aspect of the process has increased with the scope of the games themselves.
applemao@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So should games stay at $20? Is that sustainable?
arararagi@ani.social 4 weeks ago
I really hope people do not show up, the 3DS had to get a price cut even though the DS was successful, it can happen again.