this is stupid but I genuinely worry that kids ARE being priced out of video games like. totk is heavily sanitized to maintain a particular rating that often works against itself but like, I struggle to imagine the kid who’s approaching their parents like “one hundred dollars for a video game please” my biggest gaming triumph was in high school when my parents bought us an xbox 360 and one game. we got the wii as it was going out of style and played primarily gamecube games on it, and even back then to buy a new gamecube game or a DS game was a twenty dollar endeavour. what kind of slideshow does a ten year old have to present in order to convince their parents to drop a hundie on legend of zelda.
I’m gonna say something as an OLD person, but video games being expensive and yet aimed at kids isn’t new.
When I was a kid, my mom gave me a Super Nintendo, but she wouldn’t buy me any games bc they were too expensive.
Back then, NES, SNES, Genesis and the like games were regularly priced at what would be, today, with inflation, well over $100.
So while I don’t disagree, this really isn’t a new phenomenon. Until the recent age of DLC and such adding an additional $30+ to games initial price tag, video games have actually been far *cheaper* in the last…. ~10-20 years than they once were.
Nevertheless, I do have to agree that it’s a hard sell to a parent to spend $300 on a console and $100+ on a single game.
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