Yes. You have enough games to play until the price drops a little - which is usually does quite fast.
And no, I'm not talking down on anyone here as I do the same. IMO there is no point in buying games esrly anyway given the state most of them launch in.
One is a self deprecating boast.
The other is yet another fucking bitch about another entity trying to take that extra nibble out of your pound of flesh.
I'll be the first to say I take home shy of $60k year and that is the average that has been the same for "" unskilled workers since 2001.
Console prices never drop for Nintendo or the Sony store.
What has dropped?
My purchase power has dropped 25% in the last five years (thanks inflation).
My costs for mortgage increased $600 this year in taxes, and utilities have gone up 25% in service charges and rates for use since 2018. Couple that with lost purchase power and I am paying 50% more just to keep the lights on in my own home. Just got a letter today that water is petitioning the state PUC to increase basic service charges for the 2nd time in 3 years, and my electricity company is enacting a $5 uptick for basic service charge starting in July. For nothing!
I am paying almost $1000 / year more than last year to live my life as its been since 2018. That is a PS5 Pro, a Switch 2, a new GPU, gone because everyone is trying to move from a single pound to two or more pounds.
But hey lets just downplay the bitching of entertainment entities trying to push a 33% hike on the consumer.
This shit is highway robbery. Its not like everything in the world took a hit and those who were just outside of paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyles are right back in it because everyone wanted to push their losses onto the time-puncher.
What I don't have is a team of lawyers and accountants pushing numbers everyday to find ways I can manipulate the laws, and loopholes of tax codes, or compromise product quality to keep a margin. This is what separates the average consumer from these corporate greed turds.
I recently took a jaunt over to research movie ticket price history because I stopped going in 2018 because they were trying to ask me to pay a matinee ticket fee of $18 popcorn was $11 and large fountain drink $6. I am sure its worse since then,but movie theaters have reversed course because no one is showing up anymore. This is where this shit will go because it is going to do what I did with the movie theaters, told them to fuck right off.
Yea, some people here like to low key defend / apologize / or berate in defense of corporations because it is part of their life. They invest in them, work for the same entity pulling in $125k/yr or more. But you know what that is top 25% of the US. You are not the majority, you are in a good spot with a buffer. The rest of us griping or bitching are wondering how we can pay for food when a loaf of bread is now approaching $4 for store brand when it was $1.49 in 2021, or a single onion is $3.
Along comes some bigwigs saying its high time we paid our dues for an entertainment medium thats been soft locked for 20+ years.
I like that people throw inflation around like it is some magic cure-all explanation for the price hikes. Take that $80 price tag and throw it in a calc from just 2016 and see what it is inflated to in 2025. Yea $120! Imagine if we saw $120 for games in 2016 cause that is what is being asked now, and we're somehow just supposed to swallow it and ask for more. Lets see how well $80 sits in 2034 when we go from $80 to $120 a game because retroactive infaltion and all that. pfft. I mean we're all Doctor Who with a TARDIS and can fly around timelines and making calls for the future, or are we only able to look backwards and see how bad we have been screwed, royally screwed, but just ignored it in the moment to moment because it didn't FEEEEEL bad in the right-now.
I saw the PS5 announcement and game prices and gave up on consoles in 2020 because that shit was stupid then, and now its going faster-futher-better than before. Because we were conditioned to accept it at $70 but wait here comes $80 dollar games. Same games of the last 5 years but $10 more. You can can do that right. Its only a single latte or a door-dash purchase fee. If only us greedy consumers could only exercise better financial responsibility. If only