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I honestly agree and usually get downvoted to hell for it. I spent $60 on Halo 3 in 2007. Today that would be close to 90. Inflation is here, and as you said we know that Halo 3 took less manpower than most modern games. I think there needs to be a price adjustment.
Now that also means that I expect people will not buy just any game that comes out, we'll start being more picky, and I say good. True masterpieces I'm happy to shell out 100 dollars for. I'm also happy to try that with their AAAA assassin's creed games and watch sales fall. That's the market.
People say it's greed. 90 is not greed. That's how much it costs to make games. Battlefront 2 with endless micro transactions are greed. Required dlc is greed. If its 90 bucks and I get 100 hours of entertainment from it, I'm doing pretty well.
After all, let's remember that movies are like $16 now and you only get 2 hours of entertainment.
Exactly.
And like I get some backlash but I feel like I see memes and protest posts all over social media like this is some kind of huge betrayal by Nintendo. The general response just feels disproportionate.
You're absolutely right, it makes sense that due to inflation games will start costing $90, and people will probably have to be more selective with buying things at that price point. But the Nintendo ceo makes $300 million a year so arguments regarding greed are definitely still valid. They could make the games cheaper but it would decrease profits.
Charging to utilize the performance improvements of better hardware is absolutely greed