Just for fun I ran the Mario 3 release price through the Bureau of Labor and Statistics inflation calculator and it came back with $127 today for what 50 bucks was worth in 1990.
I’m not saying $100 for Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 is good and correct but I will say I always find people wanking on about game prices to be a bit short sighted. Gamers are the most spoiled price point consumers on the planet.
im not talking about the original 1990 release tho, im talking about the 5$ 2007 rerelease on the wii
that’s 8$ today
you see how the value of “15 year old game” increased a bit, huh!
and sure, mario galaxy is a game with much more content than super mario bros 3, that’s not super fair. but it has about the same content as super mario 64, and that was 10$ on the wii. that’s 15-16$ now.
and also, both galaxy games were rereleased on the wii u for 20$ each around 2016… so. there’s that too.
in the grand scheme of things, the price of video games increasing doesn’t matter much when compared to housing or food, but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous that nintendo’s charging that much for old games
Just for fun I ran the Mario 3 release price through the Bureau of Labor and Statistics inflation calculator and it came back with $127 today for what 50 bucks was worth in 1990.
I’m not saying $100 for Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 is good and correct but I will say I always find people wanking on about game prices to be a bit short sighted. Gamers are the most spoiled price point consumers on the planet.
im not talking about the original 1990 release tho, im talking about the 5$ 2007 rerelease on the wii
that’s 8$ today
you see how the value of “15 year old game” increased a bit, huh!
and sure, mario galaxy is a game with much more content than super mario bros 3, that’s not super fair. but it has about the same content as super mario 64, and that was 10$ on the wii. that’s 15-16$ now.
and also, both galaxy games were rereleased on the wii u for 20$ each around 2016… so. there’s that too.
in the grand scheme of things, the price of video games increasing doesn’t matter much when compared to housing or food, but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous that nintendo’s charging that much for old games
Agreed. I think they should have different pricing structures. There isn’t much real new effort going into placing old games onto new carts.