“Mario 64 was 60 dollars in 1995 meaning that it would be about 100 dollars today”
Pay has NOT kept up with inflation. People are poorer.
Folk need to stop pretending like people have as much money as they did in the 90s. Rent costs, house prices are astronomical.
Xbox’s business is still impacted today by outpricing people with their initial Xbox One reveal pricing a decade ago.
Nintendo Treehouse comments are absolutely packed with people complaining about prices.
Again, I’m vastly aware that game budgets, inflation etc have increased!
but Pay has NOT increased accordingly. I don’t know the solution, but that’s the reality.
And I make these points as someone who is lucky enough to earn well enough to just buy them regardless. Most aren’t as fortunate.
Game bubbles regularly disregard the poor, unfortunately, as the industry has an above-average number of middle-class background workers.
Price increases combined with physical knock effectively prices the poor out of legally gaming (Buying directly from them/the digital store)
The only reason they’d lower their cut would be if they thought they could make more money that way. That’d take something massive, like a total market crash or an actual capable competitor getting a bunch of exclusives. The former might happen at some point, but the latter will never happen going by Epic’s store which is I’d say the best-case scenario for a competitor (having an infinite free money hose).