Games price, value and perception - Tariff Edition

[JRPGfan]

Cobretti2 said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

There's this weird 2 way mindset with gamers where you have one side, those arguing about whether a game costs too much.

Then on the other side, there are gamers who mindlessly spend hundreds/thousands of dollars on a single game.

I was talking to a group of friends after the Direct and they were saying how Nintendo has lost their minds charging $80 for MK World, and then I reminded each of them that they all spent $300 each on heirlooms in Apex Legends. FOR ONE FUCKING CHARACTER!! And they had a model to where that was all they spent instead of $400

I got on to them asking how Apex Legends is worth $300 (in reality they've actually spent a lot more) yet Mario Kart World isn't worth $80?

I guess these friends of yours would have been happy for Nintendo to release the game for $40 with 20 tracks, charge $5 each for additional tracks and $1 per kart mods.

Mario Kart 8 delux launched with 48 tracks (@59.99$), and now upto 96 with the booster pass dlc (~24$).
Mario Kart World is launching with 32 tracks, at 80$.

Yeah base game for 40$ would have been much better, even with potentially slightly fewer tracks.