When Nintendo games were affordable

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• icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Used games are always cheaper, what point does this make?

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  • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    GameCube games MSRP was 49.99. Adjusted for inflation it is $79.30. The reason things feel so expensive is because you get half cooked broken DLC ridden games as the norm and a large portion of income goes toward housing, transportation (cars specifically) and education.

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    • Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mhmm. Everyone is shitting on Nintendo, but the reality is their games are literally keeping up with inflation. The problem is that our wages haven’t kept up with inflation, and the cost of living has, at least, kept up. In some cases (rent), it’s grown faster than the inflation of everything else.

      Don’t get me wrong, Nintendo is tone deaf for making this decision now, and I suspect they’d still make billions with a $15 price increase rather than a $30 one. I’m not defending them. But the picture is a lot larger than them.

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    • naticus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re also forgetting maybe the biggest factor: library selection. We used to have a lot of choices, but not literal thousands of choices across all our platforms. If we only had our choice of a few hundred games, $80 might sound more reasonable.

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  • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, at least used games used to be a thing that you could buy.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Still are. The Switch still takes cartridges.

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    • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Used to and still are.

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    theres also the chance that at least for TTYD, that was a players choice version of the game, which retailed for 20$ new. since its 2006, on the wake of the Wii

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• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wages haven’t kept up with inflation so comparisons like this are only a small part of the picture

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• Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s a fucking wild cheque if you are not from the US. One would almost think you are being scammed.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In what way?

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    • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Guessing it’s the sales tax? Most countries will price things with tax included, not add it on afterwards.

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    • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The weird discount application and the sales taxes.

      The sales tax always drove me nuts (and in total I loved in North America for a decade), I could never get it over it.

      Where I live we just get an item list (with true cost per item) and a subtotal.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The half price games on various platforms (“Platinum” on playstation, can’t remember what they were called in other platforms) were great and made me get into consoles.

  Feels like the PS4 gen when that stopped happening. Shame, because it’s not like you can magic your customers into having more money to spend. They’ll just buy fewer games.

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• Haess@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Original Nintendo games were $50 back in the day… Always regret buying Predator.

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• PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Point of the story is we should never have turned our backs on GameStop and the small game, dvd and record stores.

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  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be fair, I never did until it was already like half Funko pops. And honestly it was mostly because I just moved and there isn’t one nearby.

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