Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?

Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  PC gaming seems so cheap in comparison at this point doesn’t it. I guess we have better options which means there is more competition in price. Why would I spend £90 for something EA shat out when I can just not do that.

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  • Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It really is. It’s a big cost upfront but the amount of games you can buy or emulate for such a low price makes up for it plus your PC can just be upgraded with parts and last years and years versus the death of consoles every five years give or take. Triple A games are still expensive to buy but the sales on steam make it so much easier cos those really expensive games will be like 50% off sometimes

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It doesn’t even have to be a big upfront cost, it would only be expensive if you want moderately high end games. You could play pretty much anything over 10 years old on very cheap hardware, and it would also be able to run a fair few more modern games too. Obviously more modern games its going to vary more. Some that require high specs even for minimum settings obviously won’t run.

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