“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)
im nearly convinced all these people saying that shit are bots meant to condition people into being okay with being screwed.
all the justifications are bs. like you pointed out, how pay hasnt kept up
in addition, im not sure how companies feeling the need to spend 300 million dollars on a video game somehow makes it our problem that we have to pay for. the top people at these companies are making bank. clearly they aren’t hurting for funds. why should we all have to pay for their lifestyle and then be gaslit with this “modern games are just so expensive to make” shit