Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales

• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Let me rephrase that:

  I mean, especially as a parent do I want to waste hours setting up the system, fixing misconfigurations and trying to keep my elementary school kid from watching porn or heavy violence on the system?

  €80 is a lot, but not nearly as much as the time you spend on the device if you factor in your hourly rate.

  And for most non-techy parents the choice doesn’t even exist. They don’t even know how they’d setup parental controls or fix issues on a PC.

  source

  • Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Still 80€ is too much dont freaking accept this bs pricing

    source

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If it’s too much for you, then don’t pay it. It’s not like there are no alternatives.

      I usually just buy games years later for a fraction of the price. Or wait until a platform becomes abandonware and I can’t buy a game in retail any more (meaning the publisher doesn’t want to take my money), and then I pirate it.

      There are a couple hundred of thousands of great games, I don’t need the flashiest, newest thing.

      I’m just saying that the €80 pricing isn’t that crazy, it’s just inflation adjustment. In fact, the €60 price point for full-price games has been around since at least 2005. Adjusted for inflation, that’s around €100 in today’s money.

      In fact, SNES games even cost up to €80 in 1993, which would be ~€180 in today’s money, and even the cheapest titles back then (akin to our current low-budget indie titles) started from €40 (~€90 today).

      So, the price is really not that bad. And, as I said, you can just wait for the sale and get it cheaper anyway. Full price is only for people who need exactly this game exactly right now.

      source

      • Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        80€ is crazy nintendont games are just crazy priced and have fun getting one second hand games if nintendo allows it. 80€ for a AA game is much and a scam for a re released game because of a new poatform even tho old switch games should work.

        source