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‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
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The Switch was the generation where I really started to have adult money, and while a lot of the games I got were lower-priced indie titles, I did get pretty much all of the big 1st party titles.
There's a reasonable chance I get a Switch 2, but I'm not gonna be buying a lot of games over $70, and the ones I do will probably be when they go on sale for like, 10-15% off. I suspect I'll be buying fewer games this generation, and I'm okay with that.
Which is almost never.
It's uncommon, absolutely. But I bought Super Mario Odyssey around the third time I got an alert that it was on sale, for $50 or so. This took a couple years, so it's reasonably rare, but if the future looks like the past, it will happen
The fact that you have to have alerts to be able to get the games at a discount is pretty bad, but you're doing it the right way!