Foreign media: I just barely accepted the price of $70, and $80 is here?

2025-04-06 20:55:55|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

After Nintendo announced the price of the Switch 2 console, the price of the escort masterpiece "Mario Kart: World", which triggered a wail.Foreign media PC Gamer posted a comment on the price of the game.

The full text is as follows:

At the end of 2022, Activision brought PC games into the era of AAA-level games being sold at $70, and console games have long been in this era.Activision became the first major publisher on the Steam platform to break the traditional standard price of $60, and its "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is priced at $70.Two and a half years later, I'm just beginning to embrace the reality that it's costing $70 to get the experience of playing a character who cuts a lizard with a sword.

Fortunately, I haven't fully adapted to this price yet, because someone has already stepped up to promote the standard selling price of $80.

Earlier this week, after the Nintendo Switch 2 showcase, Nintendo revealed that the digital version of the debut game Mario Kart: World will be priced at $80.The $450 price of the Switch 2 console itself has also sparked a lot of discussion. Nintendo postponed pre-sales in the United States after the Trump administration issued a large-scale tariff announcement, and its suggested retail price in the United States is expected to rise further.

Mario Kart's price increase is the same reason given by the publisher when he raised the game price to $70: rising development costs and inflation.Both factors are real and undeniable.Today, the cost of developing a Call of Duty game is close to $1 billion, and the value of the dollar has fallen by one-third over the past decade.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the price of the game continues to rise.But in the United States, wage levels have been stagnant compared to rising cost of living, and any additional price increases—reasonable or not—are even harder to accept.Even Nintendo now allows cows to drive (the setting in the game) is fun.

Video games are sometimes called “an anti-recession industry” because even if people are short of money, they play games, after all, entertainment at home is more cost-effective than spending expensive nights out.But after the early boom of the pandemic, the gaming industry did contract, with big companies laying off thousands of employees as their bets made during that short period of time failed to pay off.

Meanwhile, there are rumors that most PC gamers are busy playing the games we already have, thank you for their concern: According to data from Newzoo, the gaming industry intelligence company, PC gamers spend 92% of their gaming time on old games.

If you buy a Switch 2, it actually means you have to buy some new Switch 2 games.But for gaming computers or Steam Deck, the situation is different, they allow you to play a lot of free games and cheap classic games.

Even in high-end games, there are options like Baldur's Gate 3, with a base price of $60, and it remains one of the most popular games on Steam nearly two years after its release.

Activision and other big publishers are now letting Nintendo open the path of $80 for the game alone, which may be a wise move.(At least whenever GTA 6 is on the PC platform), it is OK to set the price at Rockstar, but this is a special situation, and the disposable income situation of Americans is not optimistic.AAA game manufacturers, if you want to turn $70 into $80, you have to take your own risks.

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