we're being priced out of our hobby.

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64gigabyteram

Reverse groomer.
Go to PC. 1000 dollar GPUs.
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Go to Switch (2). 80 dollar games.
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Go to PS5. 700 dollar consoles
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Go to Xbox..... No games.

Are we fucked?
 
analog_future said:
Xbox is offering arguably more games than anyone, all available on a cheap Game Pass subscription.
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That price is gonna go up again soon :( it's too good of a deal right now


This is 100% why I'm against digital future, no sales ever, Nintendo games already were never on sale now they're $90. Fuck off. All digital will kill it for me, I have the income but it's becoming too much greed
 
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Seriously considering Steam Deck instead of Switch 2. I think I'd be able to play more quality titles for far cheaper that way.

Just not sure if a Steam Deck 2 is around the corner I should wait for, or...?
 
Just pick up a 3070 and build a PC and have a great time enjoying a vast backlog of catalogue's from all sorts of consoles.

It still runs the newest games quite well

Fuck Nintendo don't buy their shit don't allow them to normalize 90 euro/dollar physical games
 
With xbox and sony i disagree heavily. You can get gamepass or with the ps5 you can buy physical games for cheap consistently on gamestop, amazon, walmart, etc. Nintendo are the ones that are truly overpricing everything and screwing there fans over.
 
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N64 games used to be 70$ and that was 90's money. We aren't being priced out, the price of games are trying to catch up to inflation.
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Those games were on expensive cartridges, had a big box with a thick full color manual.

These days you have to download the entire game, no manual, a flimsy plastic box.

And the publishers are LITERALLY making millions upon MILLIONS of dollars each year.

Get real and stop chugging the corporate koolaid
 
Doubt.

By the time the Switch 2 lifecycle is over, the amount I've spent on the hardware + software will be less than a mortgage payment probably.

It ain't that deep. It's an incremental increase.

Grocery prices? Now that's a thing.
 
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If the enthusiast forum is being priced out than who is buying all these games and hardware ?
Are casuals carrying the non mobile industry
 
Those GPUs aren't needed at all for any current or soon to be released games. They're for people bad with money. PS5 pro is the same, its barely an upgrade to the cheaper ps5.
 
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MMaRsu said:
Those games were on expensive cartridges, had a big box with a thick full color manual.

These days you have to download the entire game, no manual, a flimsy plastic box.

And the publishers are LITERALLY making millions upon MILLIONS of dollars each year.

Get real and stop chugging the corporate koolaid
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Fine, do Xbox 360 games at 60$ in 2005. Its been 20 years and the price of everything else has seemingly doubled while games went from 60 to 70. Accusing me of all people of chugging corporate Koolaid is crazy 😂.
 
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Fine, do Xbox 360 games at 60$ in 2005. Its been 20 years and the price of everything else has seemingly doubled And games went from 60 to 70.
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Yeah except the companies are still making billions each year. Why should I care about their profits?

I care about my own fucking income, and that hasn't gone up much, has yours?

Why should games get more expensive if they are making money over fist with microtransactions, online pay and all sorts of other bullshit.
 
OverHeat said:
Inflation is normal OP
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No, it's not normal at all.

Non hobbies. My home insurance went up $2000 per year.
$166 per month I have to pull out of my butt. Just reach right on in there and magically find $166 per month.
Entertainment is getting slim these days. Concerts and sporting events? forget about it.
Amusement parks? HA
Taking friends and family out to Up Chuck and Cheeses for bowling? Not anymore
 
By the way, inflation is normal. But when salaries don't inflate and game prices do.. there will be less games sold.

Vote with your wallet. These prices are unacceptable.
 
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Magic Carpet said:
No, it's not normal at all.

Non hobbies. My home insurance went up $2000 per year.
$166 per month I have to pull out of my butt. Just reach right on in there and magically find $166 per month.
Entertainment is getting slim these days. Concerts and sporting events? forget about it.
Amusement parks? HA
Taking friends and family out to Up Chuck and Cheeses for bowling? Not anymore
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My salary is adjusted with the cost of life every year. So I'm not really affected by it
 
All due respect. Look at other hobbies and then get back to me,

YuGiOh Alone has had recent meta decks up and above 1K for a 9 month rotation over the past 3 years.

The more money your gov prints the less your $ gets you. The money supply is clearly being diluted and people are clueless.
 
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Or you pick up a normal digital Ps5 Astrobot bundle for $399.
And instead of rushing to buy every overhyped game at launch for $70 you wait 6-12 months and buy games on sale for $30-40.

If you are in the US or certain major European countries you can probably also build a decent PC for $1000. It's not going to run every game at max settings 4K120fps but it's going to run all modern games. And you'll make up the extra cost of the hardware with cheaper games and not having to pay for multiplayer (in other countries, PC is quite overpriced at the moment).
 
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I have a four year old gaming PC, a Steam Deck, and an XSX with Game Pass Ultimate.

I buy most games on sale on PC because my backlog is getting deep enough I'm worried about waking a Balrog every time I play an old game.
I keep Game Pass Ultimate, and I always have new and interesting things to play.
I buy maybe one or two full priced titles a year, mostly as a result of there really only being one or two games a year I actually give a shit about.

Gaming remains a pretty affordable hobby, at least for the stuff I'm interested in.
With that said, in Australia, Nintendos games are now $110, which is actually the same price as Sony's games. I stopped buying Sony stuff when they hiked their prices, so if Nintendo has hit that wall for you, stop buying their stuff brand new.
 
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GAF will tell you to stop being poor, but the price hikes are kinda crazy regardless of if you can afford the stuff or not. Specially from Nintendo who dont run sales.
 
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PC pays for itself through steam sales, pirating, and emulating.

But yeah, you're right. Gaming is getting a little ridiculous.

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Or...just don't buy games day one. Buy them a year later, cheaper and with plenty of patches added to them.
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Won't help with Switch/Nintendo.
 
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I dunno, I complained about $80 Switch 2 games as a YouTube comment and Nintendo fanboys called me poor. They obviously don't know what my wife and I do for a living 🤣. I will accept being called cheap though.

Real talk, it sounds like enough people are on board with the pricing of all this stuff that it doesn't matter.
 
Just get a Steam Deck, no need for a 1000 dollar GPU.

It's astounding how Valve works, really. Gabe appears, creates Steam, and then disappears again, in the sense that the service has been almost exactly the same for 20 sodding years. Meanwhile every other company is re-inventing everything every fucking time, and in almost all cases for the absolute worse. Nintendo practically offed itself in my personal view and opinion today. Almost every aspect of the Switch 2 is an appalling letdown.
 
That's why I've been more selective with buying games. I don't have the time to play most releases so I just fluctuate towards the games I know I'll play throughout the whole year or those I've been waiting for a long time. If I wasn't patient enough I wouldn't have saved as much money as I've been saving through PSN sales and Steam sales. The only games I bought day 1 this year has been KCD 2, MH Wilds, and Ninja Gaiden 2.

And my enthusiasm with Nintendo is at an all time low, meaning that Switch 2 will be a 2026/2027 purchase.
 
Shaki12345 said:
Gaming is cheap indeed. But when everyone here accepts the inflating prices, it won't be cheap for much longer mate.
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MMaRsu said:
Correct.

However, Nintendo games don't drop in price really. Mario Odyssey is still 50$ 8 years later.
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It will sell for its perceived value, Odyssey is what like a 15 million seller. Gone down what to $40 or $30 bucks before on sale. So yeah their tentpole game can weather those cost. But for their smaller stuff the prices will impact sales at high prices. Nintendo isn't the only game in town there are a lot of games out there. If Nintendo thinks they can sell all their games at $80, well good luck. I see more of a pricing scale develop.
 
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Guardian Monkey said:
Gaming is still cheap. You don't have to have everything and the best of everything at once. 😆 utter nonsense.
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Yeah considering this is a console that will last me at least 6 years it's practically nothing.

Compared to other hobbies I have like golf, snowboarding, etc. it's peanuts. It costs like 80 bucks for a 4 hour round of golf, 150 for a day on the mountain. $70 for a game that I'll probably play for 20 hours? $450 for a console I'll use for years? I'm cool.
 
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