I think after MKW set new records for a launch title, it's safe to say that people are more than willing to pay $80 for a video game. People griping on the internet doesn't always reflect the overall market. We'll see if future $80 titles from mega-popular series sell well, but for now this is a good sign that many people do not find it unreasonable. I'm one of them, since as I've said before in other threads I was paying $70 for N64 games back in 1998 when my take-home pay was probably $5/hour tops.

I don't know about MKW being a good barometer for $80 games as I suspect a lot of it's attach rate are tied to the MKW bundle rather then people buying the stand alone game. For instance in my country. The MKW switch 2 bundle is only €40 more expensive then the standard switch 2. So I can't see many people buying the console and game separately when theirs such a big difference.

Agreed. There is no sufficient data to conclude if 80 USD price tag is impacting software sales or not. For a title like MK which is evergreen. In a couple of years we can say how it fares compared to MK8

I got the bundle and still feel ripped off. I plowed through the game in a weekend. The only thing left to do is grind cups for 3 star rankings and go character hunting with that asinine Kamek gimmick.

I fired up MK8D to see if I had even 3 starred everything in that game and I didn't because there are 96 tracks to MKW's paltry 32.