StriderKiwi said:
33.34% increase in price. They're definitely making people pay more for less. Dexit, lacking post game content, shorter story mode, no mega evos or z-moves, and the online raid battles have been having problems according to some, which was one of the big selling points. I think the last one may be related more to Nintendo's crap online than the game itself but still. I'm not in a rush to get the game and will probably buy it used/discounted but there's been plenty of fair criticism. The bulk of the complaints seem to point to the game being rushed. |
You also have to take into account that prices of Pokemon games have effectively been going down since 2006. In today's dollars, Pokemon Pearl would have cost $50. The game market is really weird when it comes to inflation (since unlike other markets you can't really increase the price gradually), but at some point you're going to have to raise prices to keep up with the rising costs. Even if team sizes and hours stayed the same, salaries must have increased, so the cost of development has gone up. I'm sure this was a big part of why Nintendo wanted to unify the handheld and portable market, so they could effectively raise the price on all of their handheld franchises.
