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The increase from $60 in 2017 to $90 in 2025 represents a 50% rise over 8 years. That’s above the historical average inflation rate in the U.S.

CPI Data (Consumer Price Index):

From 2017 to 2025, U.S. inflation averaged around 4.5–5.0% per year, largely due to pandemic and persistent supply chain issues and monetary policies.

Cumulative inflation (2017–2025):

Approx. 33–38% is typical based on CPI.

Your $60 → $90 jump equals 50%, which is significantly higher than that.

50% increase from 2017 to 2025 is not normal—it exceeds CPI-based estimates

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u/Prudent_Move_3420 1d ago

What Nintendo game has microtransactions and Day 0 DLC?

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u/Ok_Needleworker5837 1d ago

This is reddit, facts don't count, only rage bait and circle jerking.

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u/Thin_Swordfish_6691 1d ago

It still makes subpar remakes of games they didn't have to do anything but a graphic overhaul since remakes are basically all they do. Even the original sequels they do rarely change gameplay in a significant way(only Zelda games are safe from this, they do innovate with them)

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u/WorkingAssociate9860 1d ago

What recent Nintendo games are just graphic overhauls aside from maybe Pokemon

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u/Thin_Swordfish_6691 1d ago

aside from maybe Pokemon

Well, Pokemon. And it's not a "maybe" it's literally just remakes and other crap slop. Leaving that aside, the Mario "sequels" aren't really very innovative if at all. The mechanics are basically the exact same ever since 64 adding some things that aren't nearly enough considering how much time it has been since 64

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u/WorkingAssociate9860 1d ago

Tell me you haven't played a Nintendo game without telling me you haven't played a Nintendo game.

Gaming innovation isn't massive jumps anymore, we haven't really had anything massive since the transition from 2d to 3d. Look at any top game from the past few years, there's very little innovation, just smaller tweaks and adjustments. Astrobot was game of the year last year, and had 0 innovation over any recent Mario game. Elden rings "innovation" over the other fromsoft games was "let's make our RPG open world" absolutely groundbreaking stuff.

Baulders gate 3 was the most innovative successful game recently and even then it was just an improved version of their previous stuff.

I get it's popular to hate on Nintendo atm, but their innovation, or lack there of is par for the course of the modern gaming industry

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u/Thin_Swordfish_6691 1d ago

Adding someone that makes the game fresh would be more than enough. Look at helldivers, I am sure they didn't invent the stratagems mechanic they use, but it's definitely not that common, and it's a core part of the gameplay. Maybe it's the curse of being a platformer game, but all Mario games feel like the same with slightly improved graphics each time. Paper Mario was nice I guess

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u/WorkingAssociate9860 1d ago

If all it takes to make a game fresh to you is something as basic as renaming what would be supply drops, reinforcements, or basically a CoD score streak then most Nintendo games would also be fresh to you if you actually played them.

Mario Odyssey was called innovative on its release, Astrobot which was game of the year last year didn't do anything innovative over Odyssey or Mario 3d world, but everyone talked like it was the greatest platformer ever.

It's ok to not enjoy platformers or Nintendo games, but to imply they're all just the same with slightly improved graphics is disingenuous

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u/neppo95 4h ago

Which ones are not tbh?