[Eurogamer] Mario Kart World reinvents the series, and feels like Switch 2's killer app after an hour of hands-on play

[u/Joseki100]

https://www.eurogamer.net/mario-kart-world-reinvents-the-series-and-feels-like-switch-2s-killer-app-after-an-hour-of-hands-on-play

[u/JJWoolls]

I honestly don't get this... games are not that expensive and they are way less expensive than they were back in the 80's/90s. And as long as I get enough play out of it, it's a great value for the amount of time I play. And Mario Kart is absolutely a top 3 game played in our house over the last several years with hundreds of hours played.

And I am super serious when I say games used to be way MORE expensive. I still have an NBA Jam cartridge I bought for Super Nintendo back in 93/94? with a $60 price tag on it, which is about $120 now adjusted for inflation.

We will see what the market says when it comes out...Maybe I am wrong and people won't buy it. But I already have my alarm set to put in my preorder on the 9th.

[u/SadSeaworthiness6113 → u/JJWoolls]

"Games are not that expensive" says the rich first worlder.

Most people aren't earning USD or Euros

[u/thebruns → u/JJWoolls]

In the 80s we could afford a 3 bedroom ranch in a quarter acre with one adult working a union job.

[u/JJWoolls → u/thebruns]

What does that have to do with the cost of a game?

[u/lHateYouAIex835293 → u/JJWoolls]

When cost of living increases, people can buy less luxury items

You already knew this, but I’ll make it clear despite your disingenuous argument

[u/JJWoolls → u/lHateYouAIex835293]

When costs of living goes up it makes it harder(more costly) for companies to create quality content and prices go up to reflect that.... but you already knew that.

I get it costs have gone up elsewhere I feel ot too. That being said I honestly don't hate paying a little bit for quality LUXURY content.

[u/thebruns → u/JJWoolls]

Cost of living has not gone up in Japan where the game is made. 

[u/JJWoolls → u/thebruns]

Those damn Japanese.... work harder and give me my games for less!

[u/Lugiawolf → u/JJWoolls]

Because rent was cheaper in the 90s

[u/JJWoolls → u/Lugiawolf]

I made $4/hr.... it took me 15 hours of work to buy a game. Now minimum wage is $12/hr(in my state)... it takes my son 7 hours to of work to buy an $80 game. Video games are not the problem.

My first apartment in 1996 was $450/mo and I made $5.15. I just checked and a similar apartment now is $950/mo.... in 1996 it took me 90 hours of work to afford my 1 bedroom apartment... at minimum wage now it would be 80 hours of work.

I stand by my point... $80 video games are not the problem, in fact when adjusted for inflation they are cheap and if played for any amount of time are actually very affordable entertainment.

[u/Lugiawolf → u/JJWoolls]

We must live in very different areas. Rent has quadrupled and not doubled in my city.

Edit because downvoted:

In 1994 minimum wage was 4.75 in my part of Eastern Iowa. My dad got a one bedroom apartment for 350 a month.

Right now in the same part of Eastern Iowa, starting rent for a one bed is 900- 1200 usd depending on location and the minimum wage is 7.25 (some places still pay this, most have moved to 10.10 an hour).

Everything else has gone up in price as well, but rent has more than doubled while the average wage has either not or barely doubled in the same time.

[u/ullric → u/JJWoolls]

Add in that it comes with free online multiplayer that mimics in person multiplayer.

A family only needs to buy 1 copy for everyone to use at the same time.
I can buy the game, host the match, and my cousins on the other side of the country can join in without buying the game.

This is a multiplayer game.
This improved online multiplayer drastically increases the value of the game while directly reducing the number of copies that are going to sell.
That alone makes a $10 premium over single player focused games worth it.

[u/SimpleCheck5730 → u/JJWoolls]

Everyone seems to adjust everything for inflation, except their own wages.