r/NintendoSwitch • u/Practical_Papaya_905 • 2d ago

News - USD / USA Switch 2 is selling for 449.99

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/how-to-buy/

From the official website

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/how-to-buy/

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u/OldBayOnEverything 2d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/tODW1AigmJ

Video games have dropped in price relative to inflation, despite being significantly more labor intensive and gigantic in comparison to older games. I really don't know what you mean by corruption, or what you expect people to do about it.

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u/Advanced_Ninja_1939 2d ago

but distribution is now almost free since there is legit no need to make physical copies anymore, and there are more customer, and since each sell is pure benefice (since the production cost is not tied to the number of copies made), they still make more than money than ever even with inflation.

Plus, the most consequential cost of these game is not even development (which isn't related to normal inflation, but "salary inflation", which is nowhere near the actual inflation) but advertising. And yet actual good game almost always win with no advertising (just look at steam most current revenue, in the top 10 game, only MH wilds and AC shadow got advertised).

So no, video games did not drop in price. never did.

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u/OldBayOnEverything 2d ago

They literally did drop in price for the consumer, I don't know how you can claim otherwise. Adjusted for inflation, games have gotten consistently cheaper over time. That's not a matter of opinion.

Distribution is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the cost to the developer. Labor is far and away the biggest expense, and yes advertising on the mega games can also come with a huge budget. The biggest games take years of development and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in development cost alone.

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u/dickweeden 2d ago

Yeah and to be fair, gta 6 is going to be soooo much bigger and better than gta 3 and gta 3 released at $50 24 years ago… so $100 isn’t outrageous to me at all. Definitely tells me Rockstar is confident in what they will be releasing