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@LukeAlmighty @alyx I've been saying this about $80 Mario Kart too. Games are not $60, they just seem like they are. Everybody has spent more than $60 on a game before. Fuck, look at all the popular MMOs. You pay for the game and all the expansions and a monthly subscription. It's well over $100 to play FFXIV for a year at the most basic level but nobody complains about it because it's good. They feel like that it a justified price. OSRS is $100 a year minimum. So if GTA 6 comes out and it's $100 but you get hundreds of hours out of it and it's this massive blockbuster title, is that not worth it? I would so much rather pay $80 for Mario Kart World than $60 for the majority of other AAA games out there. And that's exactly what I've done for a long time lol, in the past decade the only full price AAA games I've purchased are Nintendo ones. If you don't count the ratchet and clank or FF16 pc releases at least, but those came in at $50 instead so it kind of just half counts. Meanwhile, I bought breath of the wild, tears of the kingdom ($70!), smash ultimate, Mario kart 8 deluxe, animal crossing new horizons, and Kirby and the forgotten land on switch. Those games were all worth the money to me, with the exception of maybe AC because I kind of got fucked when my Nintendo account got hacked but that's a different story.

Anyway, point is, yeah... People are already buying games over $60 even if they don't realize it but they do so because they think it is worth their money to spend more on it. If that's the case, then there's nothing wrong with a game coming out of the gate providing that value up front and center and wanting to charge more for it.

As for the rest of the industry, they're already struggling to sell games at $60 and $70. Hell, cheaper than that for some of them. There are plenty of FREE live service games that are getting completely destroyed. It's really not about the price. If they think raising their prices to the same level as Nintendo or Rockstar, potentially the two highest quality studios, they are going to be in for a rough time.