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I hope they are because there’s no damn way I’m spending $70+ on a video game, and since Nintendo never drops its game prices, I might as well just wait.
No one is saying the current prices are due to tarrifs, there is however speculation that tarrifs may increase the price further.
So, $80 game may be $90-100 with tariffs.
And that should make me feel better about spending $80?
Nope, just that the worst is yet to come.
Haha, thanks for stepping in!
If everything I've seen is true, then this explains the higher prices for physical over digital.
Why not? Are games worth less now to you than they were a few years ago?
Game prices don’t adjust for inflation every month/quarter/year like other products do, they tend to set a price and stick at it for an entire generation. Only in the last few years have we seen a few companies start breaking this tradition and start increasing prices mid-gen.
As it is, gaming prices are still waaaaaaaaay cheaper than they should be given inflation over the last 30 years, especially when you take budgets into account where games used to cost $50k to make but now cost $300mill.
It's not the same amount of money to an individual when it's a bigger percentage of their money. Wages haven't come close to matching inflation, so inflation has just lead to most people having to spend more on essentials and therefore having less.
Yes, 100 bucks for mario kart that is basically same game as last mario kart is ridiculous.