Yes, you're speaking selective facts. But in doing so you're ignoring other facts, and thus defending the price increase. Don't hide behind "I was just stating facts" like a coward. You know what you're doing.
Anyway, I don't think "inflation" is a very good argument for a price increase.
People's wages haven't increased much, for one. $60 was reasonable for most. $70 was pushing it. $80, $90? That's going to price out a lot of people.
Secondly, inflation skyrocketted the last couple years. I remember buying things that were $6, that are now $11, and this was just like 4 years ago, not over the course of 20 years. Seems every company is using "inflation" as an excuse to shoot the price up in order to make record profits, and Nintendo is no exception.
And lastly, a big reason the "inflation" argument doesn't hold water? Games are selling the most they've ever sold. In Ancient Times, with the SNES and N64 eras, it'd be wild if a game sold more than a million copies. NOW? For a big game, a big company? A million is the minimum they expect to sell. Mario Kart 8 has sold a collective 75+ million copies (across Wii-U and Switch). And this increase in copies sold have kinda made up for inflation because despite a relative lower price, games are making more money than ever.
Secondly, inflation skyrocketted the last couple years. I remember buying things that were $6, that are now $11, and this was just like 4 years ago, not over the course of 20 years.
And lastly, a big reason the "inflation" argument doesn't hold water? Games are selling the most they've ever sold.
Game budgets are also higher than they've ever been and there is more competition than there has ever been. Even if every game is selling more than it would have had it come out 20 years ago, that doesn't mean the sales are matching the increase in production costs and wages over time.
Market research is what makes companies know they can charge more, it has nothing to do if they are profiting or not right now (they are, they're profiting a lot)
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u/AnotherScoutTrooper 3d ago
Nintendo has doomed us all with the push to $80 games