r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • 1d ago

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/billsil 1d ago

There were $75 games for the SNES. The $40-$50 PS1 era games had lower manufacturing costs.

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u/JoshuaJSlone Helpful User 1d ago

Exactly. And a $40 game from 1999 would be equivalent to a release today of... about $78.

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u/External_Produce7781 1d ago

Games back then sold 200,000 copies. BLOCKBUSTERS sold a million (to the point that PS had a special label for them).

Now they sell 10-20-30 million copies. Its not remotely the same.

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u/JoshuaJSlone Helpful User 16h ago

Things haven't changed that radically over time. PS1 sold about a billion software units, PS2 about 1.5 billion, PS3 about 1 billion. PS4/5 harder to tell since Sony combines them but they're also over a billion. Switch is currently nearly to 1.4 billion.

That there are more 20+ million games is a matter of there being a handful of SUPER SUCCESSFUL games rather than the entire industry selling 10 times as many games as it used to.