>$49 for a Nintendo console back in the early 00's
>$400 now for the Switch 1, and prices never decreased, only increased

Why is this allowed?

>dead console on its death bed was sold for peanuts to empty storage room
woah.....

>>717240381 (OP)
Zoomers allow it

cost of tech in current years means that a $50 gameing system wouldn't have any hard drive, and still runs on dvd/blueray, with the computing output of maybe a $150 phone. You wouldn't tolerate this sort of standards considering phones and PC

GIWTWM

>>717240692
Imagine actually defending price increases for a near decade old console

>>717241619
get a job lol

It's almost as if something happened to make money worth less between early 2000s and now.
Perhaps multiple things.

>>717240381 (OP)
Gamecubes weren't $50, right? My parents weren't so cheap they never even bought me a $50 trash console, right? No, I believe this image is Indian trickery. My parents loved me

>>717241619
reality is reality, there's nothing to defend there. you $50 console dream would struggle to run flash games.

>>717240381 (OP)
That $49 are about $499 in today. It's called inflation. You can thank the dems for that.

>>717241992
It's retarded zoomers

>>717243659
Retarded zoomers made money worth less between early 2000s and now?

>>717240381 (OP)
the gamecube wasn't $49 when it was first released

>>717243427
$50 was a deep discount price when the Wii was coming out which could also play all GameCube games anyways.
$100 was the standard price for years, though.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/09/24/gamecube-now-99

I remember this was basically the Resident Evil 4 special. Everybody wanted it but nobody had a Cube, however you can now get the Cube for the cost of one video game, it just makes sense.

>>717240381 (OP)
Orange man.
>10% tarrifs at the least on everything
>sony has a huge market share in EU so the EU pays those tariffs, a ps5 is 550 in eu since they'll pay it anyway and they can still win some market share in the US
>nintendo dominates in the us, so 10% extra for you, none for eu
>switch 2 still needs momentum so no price increase...yet

>>717240381 (OP)
the 2ds was 79.99 less than a decade ago. There is absolutely no excuse for a handheld to be over 100 dollars.

>>717245107
orange man bad

>>717240381 (OP)
That picture is from 2008 at the earliest.

>>717245202
unironically, yes.

>>717240381 (OP)
The shitcube is with less than that

that's just clearance prices from a time where """""""""speedrunners""""""""""" and (((((((((((((game investors))))))))))))))) didn't exist. Most of it went to the trash anyway.

>>717245202
Seeing how he ritualistically raped and killed children on Epstiens island, yes, he's very bad.

>>717241619
EVERY system has went up in price. Xbox and PlayStation. And your groceries are 100%+ more expensive too.

COVID was the biggest scam in human history. Fucked the value of your currency up. Inflation. Global recession. Wages are the same by the way.

>>717240381 (OP)
Don't expect prices to ever lower unless drastic changes happen. They'll just keep going up in these completely artifical managed economies. Remember how they always say offshoring production would only lower prices? Yeah, that was a lie to anyone with a brain. It's just a fraud for companies to cut their own costs and cheapen the quality, but still charge you the absolute maximum so they get even more profit.

>>717240381 (OP)
This picture was probably taken much later than you claim. There was a period where GameCubes cost fucking nothing. PS4's are hitting that phase right now.
The only reason this image exists is that it was noteworthy to see GameCubes on shelves. It was likely after the Wii was released.

>>717245670
Seems like an american problem, covid prices went down really fast there. Now the only expensive shit is ceral and oil because of ukraine and europe burning every summer.

>>717240925
>with the computing output of maybe a $150 phone
So switch 2?

>>717240381 (OP)
just stop paying for games, don't buy shit systems with low t, babybrained games for gay men with gay thoughts. its that simple.

pay attention to your life, and your loved ones and maybe just maybe. Maybe we could have good cheep games again

Trump elected was a dream come true for Nintendo. They now have an acceptable boogeyman to blame as an excuse to raise prices even though it's just one orange man from burgerland.
The only action is to not pay. Thankfully Nintendo makes that process simple by releasing trash and a Mario Kart that got sidelined again while I still play double dash.

>>717240381 (OP)
Thank your government

>>717240381 (OP)
>erm it's called inflation, little chuddy. Stop complaining and buy our products.

>>717240381 (OP)
Now check real estate prices in early 00s

>>717249698
They didn't increase the prices of Switch 2, Switch 2 games or NSO, unlike other companies.

>>717240381 (OP)
people don't remember how much the gamecube failed compared to the ps2. There was a reason the wii was never lowered this much.

>>717247430
see? Reality hurt you so much, you had to post nonsense to drown it instantly. Your whole life is like that, pissy baby tantrum hidden in nonsense falsely edgy comebacks. You didn't even make them up, too hard for the little baby in his wet diapies.

>>717249698
what a weird, AI coded post.

>>717246334
Companies reducing prices voluntarily is like asking your boss for pay cut for yourself

Why do people have TDS over criticizing the tariffs destroying their purchase power.

>>717249870
What other companies increased the prices for Switch 2 and Switch 2 games?

>>717240381 (OP)
JUST
BUY
IT

>>717241776
If you had one yourself, you'd understand why affording it doesn't make it NOT a scam.

>>717240381 (OP)
>disingenuous imbecile compares clearance sale prices of old HW with freshly released product price
Fucking idiot.
Game cube release price was US$199 (equivalent to $350 in 2024) you fucking retard.

>>717243659
tf zoomers have to do with this?

>>717245670
LMAO it's not a COVID problem... this is very much an "America" problem.

It's almost like tariffs increases prices or something.

It's almost like increasing prices is the EXPLICIT purpose of tariffs for punishing you, the consumer, for daring to buy foreign instead of domestic products and tries to forcefully make domestic products more competitive on the home market not by making them cheaper or better, but by making everything else more expensive.

>>717246334
I don't have real solutions to these problems and defend their practices under a slightly different context.

>>717240381 (OP)
STOP NOTICING

>>717250007
>>717255718
It's sad how you are still desperately trying to run that script after being called out practically immediately.

>>717240381 (OP)
>Wtf why was the gamecube, one of the worst selling nintendo consoles of all time only $49 when the Wii is out
>REEEE WHY CANT SWITCH 2 BE LIKE OLD I REMEMBER BUY GAMECUBE FOR $50
The brain of the person who posted this is unironically unfathomable.
The whole marketing for the gamecube was that it was dirt cheap the problem being you could only play a few games on it because it could barely run anything.
The gamecube had like 700 games total compared to PS2's 4000 so you wouldn't even want it at end of life.
Not even including the thing couldn't play music CDs or DvDs which was a big thing back then.

>>717253364
>tariffs
Current inflation spike initiated years before Drumpf's second term and had to do with anti-oil policies - turns out when you screw over the price of oil, which is the standard fuel source for transportation of goods, everything else gets more expensive - who would've thought?
As for tariffs, if people actually paid attention, they'd actually do some research and see that the vast majority of tariffs were walked back, and were tools to renegotiate trade deals.

>>717256748
>Renegotiate prices for everything
>Buy them all for higher now
>Push this cost onto consumers
>Trump fags just post about how that's the "Art of the deal"

>>717243119
>you $50 console dream would struggle to run flash games.
Have people become so used to poorly optimized garbage they unironically think this? That's depressing.

>>717240381 (OP)
>Switch never gets a (permanent) price cut
>game prices push towards $70 with ToTK
>NSO making money for free for ~7 years
>Switch's retail price actually goes up after ~8 years
This gen has been a shitshow for anyone paying attention. Never mind the fact that the hardware quality / durability is in the toilet (rampant joycon failures, cheap sticks in general, horribly designed for repairs, etc.). And the 1st/2nd party software hasn't been anything to write home about either. Modern Nintendo games are more sterile than previous entries within an IP, and they're almost entirely redundant with those older games.

Makes you wonder. Did secondaries enable the runaway success of the console, or are people simply accustomed to being fleeced by entertainment companies? The concept of the Switch was god-tier, but the execution was sloppy and slimy.

>>717257403
What is it that you think optimizing is? League runs on a toaster but genuinely has such shit programing that changing one thing changes 90 others.
The only "optimization" is adding the option to use low res polygons and textures from 2002 which is basically graphically programming a whole other game and most old games want to go the other way and as soon as they do people complain about it being poorly optimized instead of understanding maybe 10 year old hardware isn't up to date.

>>717245202
orange man good if you like israel, price hikes and raping kids

>>717257738
So the exact same as biden

>>717241619
>Imagine actually defending price increases for a near decade old console
YOU VOTED FOR THIS YOU DUMB FUCK THATS WHY ITS ONLY HAPPENING IN YOUR COUNTRY AND LITERALLY NOWHERE ELSE!!!

>>717257775
Whataboutism

>>717257510
>The concept of the Switch was god-tier, but the execution was sloppy and slimy.
If only Iwata hadn't been murdered. He'd have made the Switch the greatest console ever.

>>717257775
Who was voted out of office for a reason.

>>717240381 (OP)
No one cares about modern shitendo.

schizo thread

>>717257659
A $20 "E-waste" machine can run Flash games just fine. Fucking GTA V managed run on the 360 at 30 FPS.
You can definitively make great games for "outdated" hardware that is sold for peanuts. The industry just don't care to.

>>717240381 (OP)
>use to see a bargain bin in Game where cling film wrapped PS1s, PS2s and Dreamcasts were being sold for £20
>games were between £2 and £10
Makes me wonder, do zoomers even play anything besides CoD and Fortnite? People use to play every genre and try different stuff because it was all relatively cheap, you use to be able to use pocket money to buy games, what do they do now?

>>717240381 (OP)
>>$49 for a Nintendo console back in the early 00's

Bullshit. That would've been taken when the wii came out and they needed to clear out all of their leftover gamecube stock.

>>717258563
They got it to run but that's about as much as you can say about it. It runs like ass and has all kinds of issues exclusive to it including straight up crashes which I'm sure isn't what you imagine when you say "optimized".
The problem is usually you, there's a select few games where optimization is the problem.
They can't magically make the game better on dogshit hardware just like the best they could do actually putting people on the job was sub 30 fps with crashes and graphical bugs out the ass.

>>717257510
>This gen has been a shitshow for anyone paying attention.

Just look at the sorry ass bait in this thread. Except I really do not think its bait. I think that its a generational thing and these corporate boot lickers want to defend this shit at all costs. There could also be an element of hatred or jealousy going on here. They can't do shit to the industry so instead they will vent frustrations on "boomers" and tell you to go fuck yourself or oh well just get a job and pay up you bum. Generation Z has shown just how pathetic they are. Its largely because of them that gaming is in the state it is in. And you just know these lazy ass single moms are impulse buying all this slop for their ungrateful little shits to since its a fantastic babysitter for their child. It should not surprise us gaming keeps getting worse. Boot lickers are all over the place now. At least you got guys like Ross helping to change something about the sorry ass state of today's gaming industry.

>>717258140
Iwata was the last guy in charge who actually gave a shit about games being fun before they were monetized to hell and sold as service models. The dude took a pay cut to save jobs during the Wii U flop-can you imagine Furukawa or any of the current suits doing that today? Nah, they'd launch a $70 remaster of Wii Sports, call it "deluxe", and charge you another subscription to play online with two maps missing. Switch had so much soul potential, but instead we got cardboard accessories and $10 cloud saves.

...has no one in this thread really never heard of supply and demand...?

>>717240381 (OP)
Did you remember to thank Trump for fucking up global trade everywhere?

>>717240986
You want to be a Gamecube?? Or go back to a simpler better time?

>>717241776
Have sex lol

>>717243659
Wow that Z word really is a lot of people’s ol reliable excuse for when something in society has gone bad

>>717240381 (OP)
In 2001, lunch cost $3. $1 if it was McDonald's

>>717240381 (OP)
It's now way easier to put frivolous shit on credit with buy now pay later.
Retards will pay any price if its "only" a small payment per month

>>717256748
The American government just bragged about raising over a hundred billion in taxes to send to Isreal

>>717240381 (OP)
Nintendo is trying to be like Apple with their prices also they are sending a message to people who wait for price drops that that won't happen so buy it now

>>717253364
>>717256748
>>717249975
>>717259613
>it's an American problem
Huh

So I presume other countries are getting bargain prices on consoles because they didn't elect orange nazis that tariff everybody?

>>717260109
Unironically yes.

>>717260109
see >>717245107 you stupid fucking Ameripig
Trump ruined prices for everyone worldwide

>>717259901
This. Tendies and iSheep are cut from the same cloth... They're both clueless consoomer NPCs lacking self awareness and internal dialogue.

>>717260190
Just go on the internet and tell lies?

>>717240381 (OP)
nintendr*nes are destroying nintendo like blizzdrones did to blizzards

>>717258996
>the best they could do actually putting people on the job was sub 30 fps with crashes and graphical bugs out the ass.
Holy shit, you have no idea what you're talking about, just like when you claimed a $50 machine can't run fucking Flash games.
You think needing the latest graphics card to play games that look worse than 7th gen is fucking normal. I pity you.

>>717260109
Other countries get similar increases so you mutts don't import them en-masse. That's why Nintendo made an unprecedented move to let Japs buy region locked consoles for cheaper.

>>717260109
mutt education

>>717260109
I'm going to jerk off to footage of Americans dying in WW3
Everyone in the world is going to celebrate when your country gets bombed

>>717240381 (OP)
>>$49 for a Nintendo console back in the early 00's
'06 or '07 is not early aughts anon

>>717259680
I want to transform into a sexy ball

>snoys are still reposting this fake image, two decades later
You love to see it.

>>717242892
This was after the wii came out.

At launch RRP was $200, but a lot were selling at $160-180

>>717241776
>Just wageslave and trade away your life for pennies while your Jew overlords get rich.
Yeah I'm going with no.

>>717260312
>WOw!!! This looks great running at sub 30 FPS and stuttering at a blazing 720p!!!
>Pause the game
>Wait 3 minutes to unpause
Slaps the top of my Xbox360
>Seamless just like I remember

>>717240381 (OP)
https://www.learnliberty.org/videos/supply-and-demand-explained-in-5-minutes/

Hot take: they're doing this because they realize Switch 2 sales are about to plateau noticeably.

>>717260276
USA price excludes taxes. The France price would be around $430 without taxes

>>717260314
Imports would have a tariff you fuckwit european

>>717260765
Then they'll releaee the Switch 2 OLED and the fat pedos will line up around the block to buy it.

>>717245202
He’s only able to win against female candidates lmao

>>717245568
What the fuck is so important about this Epstein guy? Why won’t news outlets shut up about him?

>>717260812
The US price excludes taxes because there is no national sales tax in the US

A $450 item would cost exactly $450 in Montana or Oregon because they have no sales tax. It'd cost $489 in California or New York because lmao shitlibs. Every European country has over double the sales tax of the highest taxed jurisdictions in the US.

>>717260982
They need the fucking games for that to work. Spinoffs and experiments alone aren't going to cut it for long. The first Direct of the gen being a mediocre Partner Showcase was not exactly reassuring either (that's why it went over so poorly). They already wasted their Mario Kart wad at launch, only for it to be divisive due to pushing unlapped races so hard.

It's really funny how so many people don't realize how rapidly and frivolously they're spending their Switch 1 goodwill.

>>717240381 (OP)
How did Nintendo do it?

>>717240381 (OP)
increased prices is the sign of a healthy economy ;)

>>717260421
Wrong thread weirdo

>>717261534
make game box
make gaem for gaem box

WHOA

>>717240381 (OP)
usury and federal banks caused this btw

Maybe the Democrats need to stop running women for president.

>>717240381 (OP)
you voted for this though? what are you complaining about

>>717257510
Which Console Generation was the best in yours and everyone’s opinion?

>>717262209
VI.

>>717260640
>>Pause the game
>>Wait 3 minutes to unpause
Imagine making shit up instead of attacking the most criticized technical aspect of the game: the abysmal loading times (which wasn't that much of an issue since there weren't many of them).
I can't even call you a Zoomer because Zoomers remember playing this version of the game. Either you're a shill or just that much of a brain-dead consoooomer.

>>717262384
>Literally post a screen shot of the blurred out textures with screen tearing out the ass
>Looks like a melting oil painting
>Talk about the load times when even un-pausing
>Bro but the actual load times being long
Shut the fuck up.

>>717262126
>>717262137
Kys

>>717262209
>including the switch in the same section as the ps5 is facetious

It literally cannot run a single ps5 game

>>717240381 (OP)
>gamecubes were 50 bucks
>the games were 60
yeah okay buddy. more likely this was happening right before the wii came out and they wanted to sell old inventory before they could basically throw them into the dumpster.

>>717262209
Really depends on the ranking criteria, and even then, it can hard to narrow down the list to one. If someone asks me to recommend which Nintendo games to play (out of the entire catalogue), I'm going to recommend they primarily stick to Gens 4-6 and dip their toes into Gen 7.

As a rule of thumb, I don't think anything after Gen 6 should be considered the "best" of anything positive. Gen 7 was the beginning of the end, and the industry has been going downhill ever since.

>>717262830
Wrong. Lots of PS5 games are low powered shovelware. The same as every other gaming platform.

Game console generations are solely based on when it came out. How powerful the system is doesn't impact on what "gen" the system is. Ouya was an 8th Generation system.

>>717262656
>>Literally post a screen shot of the blurred out textures with screen tearing out the ass
>>Looks like a melting oil painting
Just like my brand new triple AAAs! And somehow, I can play this with 2005 hardware! Who knew the ATI Xenos was as powerful as the 4090?
Wait, you're telling me the 4090 is leagues above the Xenos? But gee, that can only mean modern devs are not optimizing their games properly, which would be, you know, my fucking point from the very beginning?
Again, are you a shill or fucking brain-dead?

>>717263308
Oh, my bad I didn't realize you didn't know it wasn't supposed to look like that.
Stay ignorant anon.

>>717261454
They're counting on brand loyalty. It works for Apple when the release what is essentially the same phone every year and people line up to buy it.
Nintendo's brand loyalty is strongest in the gaming market, by miles.

>>717240381 (OP)
They realized cutting down the price didn't do shit so why try it again? I remember reading on forums, they said 50 bucks for a GameCube was super tempting, but STILL refused to buy it, there's no point.

>>717247430
Anonymity allows you to be a retard without repercussions. Why even post this shit when you know it's not true?
>to le make you seethe own da chooods
Get a hobby

>>717253364
>>It's almost like tariffs increases prices or something.
Jesus Christ you're fucking retarded, groceries went up 400% during Biden, yet you blame the last couple of months.

>>717253364
>tariffs increased the price of console by 50 bucks fucking drumpf!!! Which you only buy once every 8 years
>please ignore groceries going up by 4 times the price during Biden, which you have to buy every week
They can do whatever they want with you, you have way less purchasing power yet focus on the most irrelevant shit.

>>717263774
You sound like a super ultra mega chud

>>717261585
GameCube thread, GameCube games.

>>717263774
ah yes, the nintendo gamecube groceries

>>717263628
Let's also be reasonable, back then the PS2 had tons of good games to choose from, yeah the GameCube was great but it's not like people were in need of more games, right now it sounds absolutely insane to pass on a library like the GameCube for 50 bucks, but back then consoles weren't like the PS5 or XSX, they actually had games.

>>717261448
>European country has over double the sales tax of the highest taxed jurisdictions in the US.
Why lie when I told you the French sales tax is 20%? When you must know that Louisiana is 10.11%. Why be dishonest? Or maybe just bad at maths?

>>717240381 (OP)
>poorfag whining
Why is this allowed?

>>717265181
rich larp contrarian posting hasnt been funny in years, it's ok to quit pretending

>>717262209
VI, ironic thats was the same thats killed gaming

>>717263527
Apple is practically indestructible now because they opened the floodgates of the modern smartphone and carry a strong perception of necessity among people due to getting their ecosystem into so many corners of the world.

Nintendo has no such advantage. Furukawa is simply cashing in goodwill from the Switch at a rapid rate and doing a shit job of fostering content to replenish or counter the lost goodwill.

>>717241619
Enjoy your pedo president, anon.

>>717266738
I don't disagree that they're cashing in on the goodwill of the Switch. My point is, they have a fuck ton of currency in brand loyalty as well.
You think Tendies are going drop Nintendo and open Steam accounts or start buying PlayStations?
No way. They'll suck it up and continue to throw money at Nintendo.
The old saying "I'd rather be dead than red" applies... "I'd be an anally raped tendie than a snoy."

>>717267328
most people are settled into their ecosystem now. the average normgroid has an extreme tolerance for disrespect and frog boiling, a snoy isn't going to magically open a steam account and move over without price increases to the point even they cant stand it. this also applies to pcgroids and tendies.

>>717266738
>is practically indestructible
people said that 2 years ago about Tesla.... Nothing is forever.

>>717241619
You literally voted this and defended it for months.

>>717240381 (OP)
>Why is this allowed?

Walmart said: "this shit isn't selling... fire sale it; motherfuckers... $49.00.. "

Walmart is probably sitting on a large inventory of Switch 1's too... they should just go over Nintendo's head and firesale it all..

>>717267552
Tesla doesn't have smartphones in an eighth of the world's pockets or a leading cloud service.

>>717241619
It would happen on the secondhand used market anyway, why do you care, are you a scalper?

>>717262209
The last 3 gens just feel like 1 because of how few advancements we really had