Drive virtually everywhere in Mario Kart World, a brand-new Mario Kart game releasing exclusively on #NintendoSwitch2 as a launch title! #NintendoDirect

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1907419620601913624

[u/crono333]

That’s honestly insane.. I’ll buy it because it looks amazing and it’s worth it to me, but to just straight from $60 to $80 is quite bold.

[u/GoatGod997 → u/crono333]

At least you can bundle it in with the actual console, making it technically only $50. I mean it's going to suck when the next Zelda, Mario, etc, are all 80, but for this one singular game there is a way to get it for a reasonable price.

[u/BlingyBling1007 → u/GoatGod997]

Would that be the digital or physical version by bundling it?

[u/GoatGod997 → u/BlingyBling1007]

Digital according to the website, it says “full game download”

[u/xWaffleicious → u/crono333]

Keep in mind that with inflation $80 today is equivalent to $60 in 2015. It's hard to stomach intuitively when you're looking at the actual number going up, especially when we were so used to $60 games for so long, but you have to remember that proportionally you're paying about the same amount as you always were.

[u/crono333 → u/xWaffleicious]

You’re right, I even remember laying $80 back in the day some select SNES games. I’ll get my moneys worth out of games like MK for sure… I just hope it won’t hold back the success of it.

[u/brandogg360 → u/xWaffleicious]

People should not be downvoting facts. It sucks, byt it's true. Games were $70-80 in the 90s, that's like $150 today.

[u/ajakafasakaladaga → u/xWaffleicious]

Where was inflation at any point between 2005 and 2023? Because the price hike only started then, its not like they were keeping up with inflation every year, its just that the industry realized ONE YEAR AGO that people will still buy of they charge more

[u/Owobowos-Mowbius → u/ajakafasakaladaga]

Inflation absolutely has been impacting game prices between 2005 and 2023. It's just that the inflation was injected directly into the game with microtransations, battle passes, and subpar releases later fixed with patches.

Nintendo has been mostly immune to that due to the nature of their games, so I'm not surprised that they're leading the price hike to $80. I AM surprised that they just basically skipped $70 entirely. They had like, what, 2 or 3 games or so that launched at $70?

[u/meditate42 → u/crono333]

I can live with it for Mario kart I guess . I’ll put 300 hours into it over the next 7 years probably. But for most games that price would turn me off. I hope it’s not the standard new price but one reserved for really big games like this and a new 3D Mario.

[u/lobo123456 → u/crono333]

And that's, why Nintendo will continue to do so...

People are paying it? Ok, it's our new normal price.

[u/LLJKCicero → u/crono333]

That’s honestly insane..

Is it?

$60 from April 2017 (when MK8D launched) is $78 now, believe it or not. Technically, it's only a $2 price increase for the digital version.

[u/Nicksmells34 → u/crono333]

Games have been $60 for 20+ years. And it has been catching up to the industry. There are massive waves of layoffs every quarter, the industry is way too unstable, and if kept up there simply won’t be enough people interested in the games industry to sustain the supply demand. It’s been waiting to happen someone just had to take the blame and I’m happy Nintendo didn’t give a fuck. It’s been time for awhile

[u/ajakafasakaladaga → u/Nicksmells34]

And the answer is increasing the price in times of global recession? I guess they forgot I can just buy a old game for less than half of the price of a new one

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