Paul Rudd and the devious plan of regression. (The Real Costs of Games #4)

By the way, we shouldn't have any beef against this guy. The commercial was a fun watch until I decided to think about it a bit more. Don't go to tweetir and bully them because they helped with this campaign.

Alright then. It seems Nintendo has a new plan to try and win us over. However, this actually gives me an excuse to write about how the Switch 2 and SNES are different along with writing about some game pricing history.

To start off, Nintendo is trying to justify the Switch 2 by saying "it's like the Super Nintendo of old." This looks like a dumb idea. 

I remember from videos that I don't remember how a mother on the news didn't really like how there was another NES-like system when they already had the NES. I'm not exactly sure if that same sentiment was shared among more people back then, but I willing to bet yes on it. 

That wasn't the only bit of history repeating though, the game prices were also wild back then. This time I have a video source for it as well.

To summarize, game prices back then were wack, especially with licensed and arcade games. That was until Sony went COMPACT DISCS!!! and had competitive game prices that lead to the standard game pricing. Of course game prices inched up here and there, but to stay competitive, your prices couldn't be higher than whatever any other triple A game was asking. We eventually bump up to $70 with the release of Tears of the Kingdom and maybe even $100 based on GTA VI rumors if that game would have come out, but Nintendo decided recently to try regressing back to the price tags of old.

This time around, we don't have the same tricks that were used back then to fight these game prices. Physical rentals don't have much market interest and we can't rent out digital games because they are licenses attached to accounts. Don't forget that many physical game boxes only have codes anyway so those games can't be rented. If we are going to bring back game prices, we are gonna have to be really clever. It's not like they will let any indie console try to make games and hardware cheap so easily.

To conclude, anyone who would actually feel nostalgic would see this and remembered how much games costed. The only people I see who would be on Nintendo's side are young folks who don't know more history than that this was a guy on an old SNES commercial. Unfortunately for Nintendo, you know better. Unfortunately for some of us, that doesn't matter to Nintendo as we will still buy it anyway. >:)