‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden weighs in on Nintendo’s pricing decisions…
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Your friendly reminder that Half Life was $49 in 1998, which is roughly $100 today.
Your friendly reminder that gaming back in 1998 was still not selling millions of copies as compared to now and revenue has for gaming has been rising significantly since.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/
Your friendly reminder that there were less than 1/10th of the people buying video games back then than there are now.
Also, Half-Life didn't have a BattlePass, Time Savers, and other microtransactions.
Neither does Mario.
Cool, now do the cost of everything else and compare then to now and you might have some idea of why $80 for a video game is a bitter pill to swallow.
Friendly reminder that games from 1998 were just games and didn’t have endless predatory mechanics designed to cripple the game in some way to extract money from you after you bought them too.