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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days ago

Nintendo boss Doug Bowser explains the $80 price for ‘Mario Kart World’ - The Washington Post

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Nintendo boss Doug Bowser explains the $80 price for ‘Mario Kart World’ - The Washington Post

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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days ago
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250407134209/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2025/04/07/mario-kart-world-price-nintendo-doug-bowser/

“What you see right there is variable pricing,” Bowser told The Washington Post. “We’ll look at each game, really look at the development that’s gone into the game, the breadth and depth of the gameplay, if you will, the durability over time and the repeatability of gameplay experiences.

AKA corporate greed.

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    Ah, now you’re just trolling. Accusing me of not having sources when nobody else has any valid sources

    In case you can’t google, here ya go:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_disestablished_in_2023 (Click through each year and observe all the companies in financial ruin)

    https://kotaku.com/microsoft-activision-blizzard-call-duty-gta-vi-halo-1850391113

    https://www.polygon.com/24177290/video-game-industry-layoffs-studio-closures-record

    https://www.wired.com/story/2024-was-the-year-the-bottom-fell-out-of-the-games-industry/

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediapost.com/uploads/BAIN-report_gaming-report-2024.pdf

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