Nintendo announce Switch 2 sold 3.5 million in its first 4 days, fastest selling Nintendo hardware ever

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A select few games (only one so far) being $80 (and only physically, even MK World is still $70 digitally, or $50 with the bundle) isn't that big of a deal, it's only $10 more than games have been for years now which isn't a lot.

It seems like only the gigaton titles like Mario Kart or the next mainline Zelda will be $80, and we typically only get like one game on that level per year or less, an extra $10 over a year is nothing.

In the 90s, an SNES game could cost you the equivalent of over $100 USD in today's money, and you could beat most of them in a couple of hours. Games back then were also far, far cheaper to make.

It's something of a miracle that games stayed roughly $60 for decades while both inflation and rising development costs continued to mount; it was inevitable that prices would increase eventually, and if it wasn't Nintendo someone else would have pulled the trigger anyway.