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psychicscubadiver on 21 June 2025
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Eagle367 said:
RolStoppable said:

You aren't priced out of gaming when you know months in advance that there's going to be an $80 game you want; of which there will be very few to begin with. Putting aside a few dollars more than you used to cannot possibly be a problem.

Your comparison with WWE cannot be serious. Fans of that have to pay $100 or more for a one day event whereas gamers still pay less for something they can enjoy over and over again. You could also cite football where ticket prices in Europe have kept increasing over the years, but again, the situation is so far removed from how video games work. Are fans of sports and pseudo-sports priced out of their fandom? Yes, absolutely. That's real. But video games? You must be kidding.

I am priced out of gaming when I could afford to buy the once generational console before and now I can't. Games back in snes days went on discount earlier as well. So did consoles. Now consoles might increase in price over a generation instead of decrease, like the ps5. And currency is a matter of factor as well. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft nor others price their games according to the local currency unlike steam. $10 is huge in India for example. I get you all like to defend your favourite video game company and get all defensive, but I am not some rival video game fan or whatever in the team sports thing.

I have bought all the Nintendo consoles for generations. I can't buy switch 2. This is the reality of the situation.  You can do with it what you wish but you can't tell me something isn't there when it is there and its happening to me. 

What price did the original Switch sell for and what price is the Switch 2 selling for?

According to this site https://www.in2013dollars.com/india/inflation/2017?amount=300 the inflation in India means that 1 rupee in 2017 is equivalent to 1.49 rupees today, which is almost the exact rate that prices increased in the US ($300 to $450 is x1.5 increase). Unless Nintendo has increased the price of the Switch 2 more than 1.5 times, then they are just matching the rate of inflation.

If you've been price out of gaming that's likely due to a combination of wage stagnation and inflation, not Nintendo arbitrarily raising the price.