Nintendo games are too expensive but everyone keeps buying them

When The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword released for the Nintendo Wii back in 2011, the motion-controlled experience was priced at $49.99. Today, Nintendo revealed a remastered variation of the video game for the Change: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, priced at $59.99, including a dollar to the price for every single year that’s passed given that the initial video game’s release.

Nintendo fans all over blurt a peaceful sigh of resignation. Skyward Sword, a 10 years old Wii video game, is more pricey than it was when it initially came out a years back– and it’s going to remain pricey, since first-party Nintendo Change video games nearly never ever get cost drops. Years after launch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a port of a Nintendo Wii U video game that released in 2017, still costs complete cost nearly 4 years later on. Super Mario Odyssey does too, along with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Celebration, and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe.