Comment Comment by MBCook Is it?Christmas ‘88 a NES was $99 at Sears.https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1988-Sea...That makes math trivial. What did games cost?Mario 2 was 45% of that. Kid Icarus 40%. Punchout was 35%. Cheapest game was 10 Yard Fight at 30%.Switch 2 is $400. Mario Kart World is $80.That’s only 20%. HALF the price of Kid Icarus in relative dollars.Games are not more expensive in inflation adjusted dollars. They’re not more expensive relative to the console.Games have gotten cheaper. parent MBCook 1 year ago
Christmas ‘88 a NES was $99 at Sears.
https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1988-Sea...
That makes math trivial. What did games cost?
Mario 2 was 45% of that. Kid Icarus 40%. Punchout was 35%. Cheapest game was 10 Yard Fight at 30%.
Switch 2 is $400. Mario Kart World is $80.
That’s only 20%. HALF the price of Kid Icarus in relative dollars.
Games are not more expensive in inflation adjusted dollars. They’re not more expensive relative to the console.
Games have gotten cheaper.