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NEWS: Nintendo States it Will Determine US$70 Game Price on 'Case-by-Case Basis'

"AAA" games have been sort of locked at $60 for an incredibly long time, despite them getting increasingly complex and presumably more expensive to make, and more recently, inflation. It's hard to increase a standard price that everyone's gotten used to, because it's hard for them to prove it's necessary and not just price-gouging. But I feel like this $60 barrier may be one reason why there's so much free-to-play microtransaction games and NFT games and other nonsense... if they can't make enough money one way, they'll just try something else. That price cap can't last forever.

"AAA" games have been sort of locked at $60 for an incredibly long time, despite them getting increasingly complex and presumably more expensive to make, and more recently, inflation. It's hard to increase a standard price that everyone's gotten used to, because it's hard for them to prove it's necessary and not just price-gouging. But I feel like this $60 barrier may be one reason why there's so much free-to-play microtransaction games and NFT games and other nonsense... if they can't make enough money one way, they'll just try something else. That price cap can't last forever.

Software prices are weird. Since the manufacturing cost for a cartridge is low and exactly the same for every game, and there's virtually zero cost for a digital download, and we don't usually know much about production costs, the price is always going to appear arbitrary. One way to make it look more justified is to consistently charge the same price for (seemingly) similar products until it feels normal; but that doesn't make much economic sense in the long run.

"AAA" games have been sort of locked at $60 for an incredibly long time, despite them getting increasingly complex and presumably more expensive to make, and more recently, inflation. It's hard to increase a standard price that everyone's gotten used to, because it's hard for them to prove it's necessary and not just price-gouging. But I feel like this $60 barrier may be one reason why there's so much free-to-play microtransaction games and NFT games and other nonsense... if they can't make enough money one way, they'll just try something else. That price cap can't last forever.

DON'T BELIEVE THEIR LIES

Time to repurpose my incredible sloth in clearing my backlog into a respectable boycott over unacceptable prices.

kotomikun wrote:

Software prices are weird. Since the manufacturing cost for a cartridge is low and exactly the same for every game, and there's virtually zero cost for a digital download, and we don't usually know much about production costs, the price is always going to appear arbitrary. One way to make it look more justified is to consistently charge the same price for (seemingly) similar products until it feels normal; but that doesn't make much economic sense in the long run. "AAA" games have been sort of locked at $60 for an incredibly long time, despite them getting increasingly complex and presumably more expensive to make, and more recently, inflation. It's hard to increase a standard price that everyone's gotten used to, because it's hard for them to prove it's necessary and not just price-gouging. But I feel like this $60 barrier may be one reason why there's so much free-to-play microtransaction games and NFT games and other nonsense... if they can't make enough money one way, they'll just try something else. That price cap can't last forever.

Apparently the price of the card ridge seems to rise when it exceeds 16GB.

BotW used cheap cartridges because it was 14~15GB. Since TotK exceeds 18GB, card ridge costs seem to skyrocket.

DON'T BELIEVE THEIR LIES

Time to repurpose my incredible sloth in clearing my backlog into a respectable boycott over unacceptable prices.

You don't even get a full game these days.

You have to download much of it as updates or patches for its glitches.

As a fact of simple economics, something is only worth however much someone is willing to pay for it. That said, Nintendo could be called foolish for not charging more when it could be for how dedicated its games’ fan bases are.