we're being priced out of our hobby.

K' Dash said:
it was about fucking time for the peasants to leave gaming.

YOU are the ones salivating for less competition and bend over when Sony rises prices on their hardware and (shit) accessories.

I'll laugh at you while I pick up my SW2 and ($1000) PS6 in store without even preordering.
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I'm not even upset at the idea of $80 games. Games like GTA6 will be massive in scale while supporting online for years of replayable content. While that may upset some people, games like that I see it coming.

$80 for reskinning games we've been playing for decades that are much smaller in scale, more of an arcade game than full fledged AAA experiences? Seems absurd.
 
My hobby of eating food and drinking liquids is also getting very expensive. I paid $27 for the shittiest moscow mule ive ever had in my life last week.
 
we are getting priced out, and games are getting less interesting, poorly optimised with terrible stories and writing.

you are going to see more and more gaming lethargy from many gamers going forward.

I wouldn't mind the costs if games were at least interesting and fun.
 
Welcome to the third world. Steam games only when heavily discounted, plus emulators and more. No point in validating predatory business practices.
 
Moral lesson. Work hard to earn more, and save intelligently so you can have funds for your basic necessities and extra income to spend for your hobbies and recreation.
 
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Ironically going PC is going to cost less in the long run if you don't care for cutting edge. And you aren't locked into an ecosystem if you want to simply want to play some games.
 
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Nintendo games are worth 4times as much as a shitty other console/pc game so you are actually getting a deal!


But really I guess no one was around the snes/n64 era.? We've had $80 games before in old times dollars.
 
Zacfoldor said:
$449.99 USD console and $79.99 games is pricing us out, but I wasn't priced out before today?

Also, Donkey Kong is actually cheaper. I bet they just do the 80 dollar price on their games that they know everyone will buy like Mario Kart, Mario, Zelda. I suspect 3rd party games and non-tentpoles are same price as PS5/Xbox games.

The console price is actually really good. I bet they decided to keep the hardware price low they would raise the prices on tentpoles.

You could just buy the console which is pretty cheap, then just wait for sales.
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Or MK world bundle for $50 extra

But I imagine most games will remain $70.

Mario kart looks insanely packed with content
 
GHG said:
How so?

On a per hour basis it's still by far and away the cheapest form of media entertainment.
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Nintendo is designed to be a family oriented hardware / games, a single mother of 2 toddlers that i casual about the gaming industry to go to wal-mart and see those prices she will jump. It always being cheaper to be a nintendo fan in comparison of PS. (you pay a premium price)
 
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GrandlyBodacious said:
Seriously considering Steam Deck instead of Switch 2. I think I'd be able to play more quality titles for far cheaper that way.

Just not sure if a Steam Deck 2 is around the corner I should wait for, or...?
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If you want something now get ROG Ally X or Legion Go. Put Bazzite on it to get Steam Deck OS and enjoy life.

But tbh I'd wait to see what else drops this year
 
The game prices are higher than I'd like but if shops can't shift them they'll lover the prices and Nintendo will have to follow them.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
Gaming is still cheap. You don't have to have everything and the best of everything at once. 😆 utter nonsense.
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Gaming is such a fucking cheap hobby. I swear half the people here haven't gotten into any other hobbies.

Cars? lol you spend that PS5 pro cost one weekend at the track
Skiing/snowboarding? $500 just for your lift pass for one 4-month season, let alone the equipment
40k/tabletop? lol
Magic or Pokémon? lol
Sports? Easily $100 just for one 3-hour game
 
rofif said:
gaming is the cheapest hobby. What else is cheaper?
Fishing? hell no. Outerboard motor is like 10k$ alone... just a motor. I know.
Cars? haha good luck
Vintage cameras?... yeah about that... I have like 30 cameras. it is a black hole for money. Why am I doing this
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Movies, shows, music and books.
 
Hmm.

What's the cheapest you could set up for and game for the next 5 years? Assume you already have a display, but you need to count controllers. Those ain't cheap and are conveniently forgotten about.

I suppose specify if you want to do new or used.

I think I could get away with like $600 in used stuff? I'd miss vr but I think I can almost replicate my current pc with used parts and a gpu downgrade thanks to that fucked up situation. If the prices were more normal I think I could do it all for $600 used, but not ancient parts. I could play everything on that for 5 years.

A used ps5 wouldn't be bad, either. But it's a little more limited.
 
BennyBlanco said:
They definitely have. Baristas are making like $20/hr now.
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Mmm hmm and tips too! There was a time when minimum wage was barely $10/hr for a lot of positions, now a lot of those positions are starting at or closer to double that. I do think inflated pricing is still a bit higher than the majority's income, but I guess at least it's not worse I suppose.

reinking said:
Not all.... 3DO and Neo Geo say Hi.

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Let's not forget the Sega Saturn launching for $400. Hell, the CDi was originally priced at $800 but then dropped to $600 in a year, lmao.
 
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64gigabyteram said:
noticed how the console that was 300 dollars won the 5th gen console war and the one that was 400 put its company into software forever

not like modern gaming companies seem to care though
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Yuuuuup, I'm sure they thought about selling it as the same price as the Saturn, but clearly selling it $100 less was the right move. I remember at the time it felt like Sega was immediately left in the dust of their success.

That's one of the worst things, and the reason why I give kudos to Microsoft/Xbox. Could they be better? Most certainly, they're by no means perfect. But the Series S/X thing was just more options for buyers, and then Game Pass as well. I get that we still live in an age where people have their platform preferences and shit all over the "opposing platform(s)", but it's nice to see someone providing options for fans that vary in price. I wish we'd see more of that. I wish more fans would put their feet down to say "too much is too much", but unfortunately that will never happen, fans will keep fanning, and whales will keep whaling.
 
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For me it's just a numbers game. If I give myself a $1000 budget for games annually and game prices increase by $10, it means I just buy fewer games overall or fewer games at full price and take advantage of sales when they happen.
 
AmuroChan said:
For me it's just a numbers game. If I give myself a $1000 budget for games annually and game prices increase by $10, it means I just buy fewer games overall or fewer games at full price and take advantage of sales when they happen.
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Best thing to do IMO, especially with the older we get. It's clear that gaming isn't getting any cheaper, unfortunately. So budgeting and planning your attack works in most cases. Also just being patient, which modern gaming has helped me with quite a bit. Games that I want day 1 are few and far between, ones that I'm moderately interested in I can wait to drop in price which definitely helps in the long run.
 
I'm from a "third world" country, for me these prices are prohibitive.

In the past years I've been playing less the news games and focusing more in the old ones. With these prices I'll keep it that way.
 
DownLikeBCPowder said:
Yes and no. Sure, at the release date for everything? Okay, can be pricey. If you are patient - you can scoop up endless hours of entertainment for next to nothing.
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For some platforms, yeah. But Nintendo almost never drops the pricing of their first party games. But they do at least drop their hardware after awhile. Really curious how prices will fluctuate with Switch 2 though.
 
Not_A-Cop_Maybe said:
How the fuck are you getting better deals without a disc drive?
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PSN deals are quite good right now compared to physical in my country. Look, I'm not saying physical is bad, most people just don't bother.
Not_A-Cop_Maybe said:
Part of one of the reasons why gaming has got more expensive is this push for an all digital future. On consoles, the deals on games are nowhere remotely close to what they are on Steam. Im not saying there arent deals for digital, but they are no where close as to how frequent they are on PC.

I'm curious what your opinion on the worst deal in gaming is?
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RTX 5090 is almost $4000 CAD in my country. The worst deal by a country mile. In fact, if your sole purpose is to play games, PC gaming is the worst deal by a country mile. RTX 4060ti/RX7700XT $600+ CAD, RTX 4070, $800+. 5070 $800+ with some models as high as $1000. All of that when you can just buy a base ps5, or series x and still have money left over for good games. You could also buy a series s and switch as well.
Not_A-Cop_Maybe said:
The switch serves a large niche market of people with kids, or who dont own multiple screens, or like gaming on the go and who play specific type games. This can kinda be proven by people buying the PS Portal. Nintendo always prefers the experience and gameplay over style and substance like the others do. Its literally why theres like 150million switches to ~80 Million PS5's.
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Not very many kids have $629 cad pre tax and most likely $700+ post tax to buy a switch 2 with no games.
 
Something has to give. Development costs seem unable to be reined in so the scope of these games are going to have to be scaled back. And, this may be a weird point, I feel like there's too many games coming out, at least too many for the market to be able to support when we're entering into $80/$90 territory. Alot of games are going to fall by the wayside because increased prices are going to inevitably lead to less purchases. If something I really want is priced at $80, that very likely means something else of interest( but lesser priority) either falls through the cracks or I wait till it's bargain bin. And the knock-one effect of $80 games is that sales are gonna suck. Nintendo is notoriously stingy so a 'sale' from them will be like $60. This also affects what people resell their games for.
 
MiguelItUp said:
For some platforms, yeah. But Nintendo almost never drops the pricing of their first party games. But they do at least drop their hardware after awhile. Really curious how prices will fluctuate with Switch 2 though.
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While it is true they tend to hold higher, that pretty much is exclusive to the first party. Even that, depending on the title, can be had as low as 30-40 on sales, perhaps lower. But most games do not meet that criteria of exclusion.
 
bender said:
I think it will raise the floor too though. Pricing in the Indie space has basically doubled since their initial rise to prominence. There will always be exceptions (Vampire Survivors) of course, but that scene has the same challenges as anyone else (increasing team sizes, budgets, expectations, competition). I'm mostly fine with games being more expensive in principle, I just think most publishers will continue to use the same tactics to squeeze more profits out of games which allowed pricing to stay flat for so long even if those prices do go up. At least with Nintendo leading the way, they don't nickel and dime you on that front. When they do charge for additional content, it's much more akin to expansion packs of old rather than horse armor.
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There is the potential to see Team Cherry go from indie darling Hollow Knight $15 MSRP (and often $7.50 on sale) to Silksong at $70 to $80. Unless the game is a 10/10 masterpiece work of art, I just don't see that ending well. That's not to say $15 was impossibly cheap at the time (because they had something to prove), but I think there is a healthy middle ground for this. Nintendo and Square-Enix are pushing the boundaries, and Take-Two is gearing up for it as well.
 
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