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Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2
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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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I’m not as against this as everyone else. If you want a AAA game without microtransactions, in-game advertising, and all the other bullshit you get nowadays, you’re gonna have to expect the company will want to make that money up in other places. Games have been like £50/$60 since the N64 days and we’ve been lucky that the prices haven’t risen with inflation.
This is a fucking 8 year old game. Fuck all the way off with this shit.
There are a lot of AAA titles without all that bullshit and none of them costs that kind of money, on any platform.
Yeah but just for a rerelease with some new paint?
Games were $60 in SNES days, I know I paid around that for Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger MSRP was $70 iirc and some titles were even $80
How much were they 8 years later?
Phantasy Star IV on the Genesis retailed for $99 in the US in 1995. That's like a game being $200 now. I think Star Fox 64 was $80, but it came with a rumble pak at least.
Han has died.
As someone that argued this the other day, volume and production costs are waaaaaay different than then. This is a false equivalence.
Everyone also always forgets that they save money on distribution massively. And that the amount of games sold has increased significantly.
It's not as simple as dollars had more value, games should cost more.
And subscriptions, MTX...game companies are making bank and would still make more than enough if games were $50.
$90 for an 8 year old game, lmao you are a clown. Some of you people that play on consoles are losing your fucking minds, especially on prices and costs on things.
Throwing away so much money on consoles and accessories, online subs, games, you could literally just build a PC for cheaper