“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)
While searching through family records my partner found a lease renewal of her dad’s for his apt in like 93 for like 3-400 dollars a month and he was making 20 bucks an hour fresh out of college
When I left college in the early 10s I was paying like 900 for a small apt making 20 bucks an hour.
Today I can’t find a single bedroom apt for under 1400-1500 and I know people still making like 15-20 dollars (my partner makes like 17 I think)
Yeah I just moved into a 1br with my wife and it’s 1572/mo. I was getting the family deal of $500/mo for a bedroom in my mom’s house before, but only so long I can live with them and my wife, so it had to be done. But… there goes my decent savings I had been able to build each year before.