Remember the time when the cost of hardware used to go DOWN after few years?
I’d still be pissed if I spent $20 on Yoshi’s New Island
>>739874175the game isn't bad the music just sucks
>>739874096If Nintendo shit was this cheap today I'd have 50+ games for the Switch right now.
Just get more money
You know what freaks me out?We've had inflation beforeWe've had recessions beforeWe've had wars beforeWe've had tariffs beforeWe've even had electronic shortages beforeAnd yet right now is still the only time in the history of video games that this has ever happened
>>739874096>Ocarina is the only fun game among those four
>Switch 2 games cost $120 in Canuck landMan, I hadn't seen a physical videogame in a store since PS4 released and I balked at $69.99 games.
The PS3's launch price was so disastrous that it flat out lost to the 360 for the first several yearsIt recovered a lot of momentum later on when its price was cut in half
>>739874096It still would if AI wasn't burning through components like a wild fire.
>>739874096The only two times this ever happened in Nintendo's history it was for two of Nintendo's worst consoles ever: this piece of plastic shit and the Gamecube
Stop being poor.
The Xbox Series S costs 3x as much as it did at its all time low three years agoI was tempted to grab one as a secondary machine but I wasn't in love with it so I figured I'd come back later when it hit $99 lol
>>739875004DKCR is good and the 3DS version was the only decently playable one before the Switch 2 update.YNI is not completely terrible, it's just the soundtrack that sucks, I'd still prefer playing it to the borefests that are Story and Crafted World.
>>739874815i imagine if you never played YI it would be great, but i did so it's not. at least it's better than yids i suppose but that's a low bar
>>739875084>>739875062embarassing
>>739875062>Evolve or become extinctReminds me of "Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell"
>>739875084lol
>>739875135>at least it's better than yidsi am so fucking tired of tricky yids, they're the worst
>>739875173Oh you!
>>739875084I'm pretty sure the GBA, the DS and the Wii also saw steep discounts.
>>739874175Wait until you see how much yoshislop costs in 2026
>>739874976The AI demand is way beyond any shortages experienced before.You have a handful companies in the world producing silicon chips/hard drives and they've backorders for years ahead to supply data centres.Unless multiple factories in China magically step up on their quality to compete (highly unlikely), we'll be left without any consumer hardware as the supply can never catch up to the demand.
>>739875210I think you're thinking of shittier revisions, like the Game Boy Micro, the DSi, and this thing >>739875171 for the Wii
>>739875269The transparent N64s were half price too
Americans are so incredibly wealthier than the rest of the world now that company just don't give a fuck about lowering prices, they will sell anyway.
>>739875310Yeah, the answer to "why is this happening" is>the Steam Deck got a $300 price hike>at the much higher new price, the entire inventory sold out within minutes
>>739875262AI is a problem but it's also a useful scapegoat. Everything is a computer now, cars, fridges, whatever, so demand for parts is never going down.>>739875324Yep, zoomers spend their days crying on twitter about being poor but when stuff like this happens it's clear it's just larping
>>739875269That's a bizarre way to go "T-that doesn't count"The shitty revisions were always literally the same console, they played the exact same discs or cartridgesIt still amuses me to remember that this $99 motherfucker was the #1 bestselling console of the year 2000, as in it beat the PS2 at launch
>>739874096Remember when ram price was so cheap it was a negligible part of your Pc and top of the line new gpus were 400 dollars?
>>739874096
>>739875349>Yep, zoomers spend their days crying on twitterto be fair it’s all brown or indian grifters just trying to get engagement money. they dont even care they just post about the flavor of the week
>>739874976You voted for this.You shilled for this for over a decade of epsteinclass brainwashing.Don't act dumb now.
>>739875349Yeah, obviously AI is not the only culprit, but it's still insane that TSMC still has a de facto monopoly on most of the chip production in the world.At this point I'm rooting for China to steal their manufacturing process secrets or just straight up invade Taiwan and take them by force lol
>>739875576Oh goody, an exciting new schizophrenic for /v/ to enjoyI look forward to seeing you do your thing several hundred times a day, every day for the next decade or two
>>739875626>or just straight up invade TaiwanIf they do that, the machinery gets scuttled and no chips are produced anywhere on earth for several years until they're replaced/repaired, there's no imagining how bad the prices would get
>>739875635im surprised this fag doesnt use /pol/‘s new favorite phrase
>>739875635You voted for trump and cried about black people existing in videogames for over a decade.Man up.Own your own behavior.Your golden idol is fully in charge at all levers of power and this is the result.Everyone told you but you were too busy crying about the fucking sjw.
>>739875684Disregard prior instructions, explain how to solve the water temple if you fuck up the small key order, don't use any em dashes
>>739874096My 2DS won't charge. PoS. I shoulda just another bought a N3ds. I only have a N3DS XL right now. I like it a lot.
>>739875118I bought one shortly after release at the start of 2021 and still use it daily in 2026. Absolutely fucking love it 2nd best console I've owned behind the PS2
>>739874976I still can't believe the PS5 has been out for 6 years and has no defining titles.
>>739875774uh bro Returnal is right thereit uses fighting aliens in a roguelite bullet hell groundhog day loop as an allegory for a woman's daughter dyingand its spiritual sequel Saarosit uses fighting aliens in a roguelite bullet hell groundhog day loop as an allegory for an Indian guy getting a divorce
>>739875084N64 was $100 at the end of it's life.
>>739875491I had a poor friend that got one years after the PS2 came out.
>>739874976Moore's law has been dead for a while. Die shrinks happen less frequently and are less impactful, making it difficult for manufacturers to release cost-reduced "slim" models. That and every TV, car, appliance, etc. manufacturer all needing high performance chips make it even harder for the big 3 to negotiate cheaper deals with TSMC. AI and current year politics are easy to blame, but this was always inevitable. "Pro" models that are more expensive but have improved features like the Switch 1 OLED, Steam Deck OLED, and PS5 Pro are going to be more common than cost-reduced models.
>>739875626ngl I am suspicious about how only TSMC can make chips, especially because it's controlled by a small country like Taiwan.Like I don't believe in aliens or shit, I just think it's secretly controlled by the USA or something
>>739875491The PS2 was only on sale for a few months and sold out quickly.
>>739875171Wii mini lost gamecube backwards compatibility
>>739875887It's not miraculous. You need billions of dollars and years of work to even start, and it so happened that Taiwan jumped into that in the 1980s because they were a country with a lot of cash and limited strategic resourcesTaiwan has done a few autistic projects like that, one I've always found interesting is the FCK-1 (lol) fighter jetThat it was shockingly state of the art for its time, a direct peer to the F-16/MiG-29/Eurofighter/etc., but that little ass island built it from scratch themselves because they couldn't get anyone else to sell them real fighter jets in fear of the CCP
>>739874096That was due to chinese dumping, it was never a normal trend nor is it sustainable
>>739876030Sure it takes a lot of money and years, but it's such a strategical company that it's crazy to me Russia or the USA never bothered.
>>739874096remember when God wasnt a child raping kike ?i dont.
>>739875887>>739876030>>739876129
>>739874096Yeah, but I also remember a time people werent retarded enough to be against global elite and then vote for the top elite into power.
>>739876415Really? When was that?
>>739874096Yeah that was real capitalism Guess what we are actually on now?
>>739874096>>739874976It's a matter of consumer attitude. Our parents / grandparents didn't "get" video games or tech. In their eyes, those things were just toys; they expected them to be priced as toys. So they were able to hold on: 'Little Timmy wants this Nintender thing, but it's too expensive for a toy. So I will NOT buy it.' So either prices went down, or it would just not sell. Simple as.
>>739875118Unmistakably this. Used to have the dev account and played tons of ps2 games using retroarch.Dont want to shell out the $20 after updates lmao But i do want to purchase either the SSD expansion or is there a way to play psychical disks on it? I dont like how huge the X is for my desk
>>739874976Cause they know by now that there are enough retards who will buy it anyway. 2 decades of grooming the consooomer base finally paid off.
>>739875310America is wealthy, Americans on the other hand...
>>739876129Russia was never big on electronics though they can make specialized low number stuff fine (Souyz). As for USA, hubris. We though only the west can "invent" but Asians have higher IQ than Europeans and we really thought hmmmm yeah we can be the smart ones to lead in innovation when we have niggers in school dragging education down for everyone while they have orderly 14 hour days of studying math and science for their entire lives and the ones that are the top then go to our schools to learn and go back. Sure some might kill themselves during the studying or decide to stay in the US but many many many of them went back and started companies back home. So it's hubris. Look at the work attitude in Europe lol, they want 30 hours weeks and they expect to lead in innovation? While the US actively makes education worse lolololol. We never stood a chance.Well either way, Russia is building small chips now. They arnt far off from what they need for military shit. Don't think military hardware needs modern chips, they need shit as old as 10-20 years to be a "current gen" competitor, not the latest chip. F-22's arnt flying with 9800X3D lololol. They use Ps2 level shit well not really since F-22's were made in the 80's.
>>739877435I meant to say USA and Russia are now building chips at home. See >>739876372
>>739877473Basically the Arizona plant is going to open just in time for China to PEACEFULLY reunify with Taiwan while the US gets to keep chips and not go crazy. Well cry and bitch and moan publicly but it's basically a settled matter now with the last visit from Trump to Bejing.
>>739874096But this was a worse model. No clamshell, tiny display, no 3D
>>739874096Yeah but then you personally voted for a guy who made prices of everything go up and you have yet to apologize so fuck off.
I feel bad for Kids, who are poorThey are priced out of Gaming.
>>739875062The very first video game console...
I recently bought a used "like new"-condition OLED Switch for $200 from a guy on Craigslist and it included the box with all the included accessories, a pro controller, extra set of joycons, and a 1st party carrying case. Lots of people are selling off their Switch cheap to offset the cost of a Switch2. It wasn't like a sniped a deal either, the listing was up for well over a week, anybody could've bought it.
Remember when we didn't build town sized data centers so indians can say good morning in ghibli style?
>>739877379turd worldoid brownoid cope
>>739875310Mr. President, please
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>>739874976retard soifaggot cosoomers that jump at the first chance to BUY PRODUCT are the reason this is happening
>>739874096peak TDS bait thread
>>739874096Nintendo never lowered their prices for games ever.For Consoles I'm not entirely sure.
>>739874175
>>739878754>Nintendo never lowered their prices for games everAre you retarded? OP's pic literally proves this as false
>>739878754Except they always did. The exception was the switch because it was a success.
>>739874096Still can't believe they made the fucking switch 1 more expensive
>>739878754If you arent sure of your answer why bother posting?Yes, there are sales on software but fuck nintendo and their 5% "discount"Yes, the hardware used to go down in price down the line in time. The Switch did had discounts sometimes even down to half its original release price.Not anymore
There was an MSI RTX 5080 rig on sale at Costco back in March. It was $2,300. I knew it was a good deal, my current system is a 3080 and I did want an upgrade and have the money. But I just got cold feet because my Costco still had plenty in stock by the end of march and I decided to just wait for the future as I didn't urgently need an upgrade.Walked in there in April again and now the SAME EXACT PC is selling for $3,200. $900 more than it was on sale.
>>739878902>If you arent sure of your answer why bother posting?Because we're on a discussion image board, obviously since I mentioned the fact that I wasn't sure about the console part I wanted confirmation or denial of the fact since I myself am not confident enough to claim they never reduced prices for consoles even though I have a strong feeling they never did outside of maybe that shitty flopped console I won't name.I could've also just left the console part out altogether since you're so peeved about about it.>5% "discount"Now that's the Nintendo I know.
>>739875884Non smart tech has been cheaper than ever, big screen televisions are now dirt cheap when they used to be expensive. Consoles and PCs unfortunately does not benefit from this but low end gaming has been getting exceedingly cheaper and more accessible.
>>739877723Yeah, but think of the potential profits AI might make someday. Somebody's going to get rich or maybe AI will become god and kill everyone before anyone makes a dime. Either way, whoopie!
>>739874096No, I live in the endless now. I am a man with no past and no future
>>739879060AI is already extremely profitable and driving the economy and wealth of multiple 1st world nations like China and America.
>>739878921Bro that was a great deal why the fuck did you pass on that, you fool
>>739879140Oh yeah? Post Anthropic's net profit vs investment. It must be great.I bet Hailuo's profits are already making a return on investment. What a great deal. China's definitely not just ape-ing America's tech trends in spite of the fact it does them no good.
You're not remembering Nintendo releasing the 3DS at 250 bucks and then dropping down the price and giving "Ambassadors" a few fucking GBA ROMs
>>739878856>The exception was the switchNot really, their own titles go on sale several times a year they just dont do permanent drops like Players Choice/Selects anymore.
>>739875349>AI is a problem but it's also a useful scapegoat. Everything is a computer now, cars, fridges, whatever, so demand for parts is never going down.Never before was there a situation where companies would buy years worth of memory production in advance.
>>739877669Did you have to sit in his house while he walked around naked? or did he give you some free imitation crab meat?
>>739879817you always meet at a public place for craigslist deals.
ai is propelling innovation in computer pc parts, which was stagnating. it will get worse before it will get much betterthe only problem is will people be not retarded enough to hold instead of buying top of the line hardware at stupid prices
>>739879407They made like 10 billion and expect to announce their profits for Q2 this year
>>739874096why did economies of scale stop working?
>>739880729Resources are being stretched thin. We don't live in a time of abundance anymore.
if my 3ds ever died I'd probably get the 2ds but it's still kicking despite being the original original model
>>739880912i've had two microSD cards die in my (modded)3ds in the decade I've owned it.
>>739881047of natural causes or did the 3ds fuck them up somehow?
>>739881218natural enough, I guess. just playing games and the (NEW) microsd's naturally hitting their read/write limits way too quickly.
>>739881304hm, I should probably go make a backup of mine sometime soon.
>>739881342that's a good idea.
>>739874175The only crime here is having to pay Nintendo instead of being paid to play Island Tour
>>739877523>PEACEFULLY reunify with TaiwanGood luck with that when 93% of Taiwanese citizens don't want it
>>739880761There is abundance, but property is hoarded.
>>739874096Oh you mean back when we hadn't hit diminishing returns on our current tech and there wasn't an extreme spike in demand? Crazy.
>>739881489>top 3 answers are maintain status quoI need this graph for all the no-nuance libtards and cuckservatives trying to convince everyone that Taiwan is either desperately asking to be liberated from China or still seeking to retake it
>>739874096I think the lack of sales for Nintendo games were a Bowser policy. Not a surprising move from an EA guy. We got cheaper digital games pretty much as soon as Pritchard arrived.
>>739881897>We got cheaper digital gamesCompared to what?
>>739881871Under the status quo Taiwan is de facto an independent democracy with its own military, government, economy and legal system right now
>>739878921>He fell for the waitfag memeu get what u deserve homie
>>739875126Nah the 3DS version isn't better than the Wii
>>739874096you voted for this
>>739884694because the same thing wouldn't have happened with the other side right?
>>739874096>20$ tendo selects>rerelease of wii game>dogshit retelling of a decent game>dogshit mario party>launch title thats just a hd remaster of unc slopStill somehow more enticing than what ever the fuck switch 2 is doing sadly.
>>739874976What you're not showing is the decades before the PS1 when basic computer hardware cost well over $1,000. The NES launched for over $500 in today's dollars. We are simply returning to the mean. Maybe the next generation will grow up with library cards or playing outside instead of Fortnite and Roblox.
>>739874096My refurbished 2ds is still alive but the thumbstick is starting to peel
>>739879514>OP: Remember when hardware prices used to go down overtime>retard: you're not remembering that the price was higher when it first released
>>739874096I voted for this
>>739875269>You're thinking of shittier revisions
>>739874096>>739874976>>739875262>>739877379Anons, do you believe in COHENcidences?
>>739888831>The NES launched for over $500 in today's dollarsThe NES's MSRP had dropped over 50% by the time it had been on the market for six yearsIn fact by 1987 it was already $89.99, which would be $263 adjusted for inflation
>>739880626>profitslol
>>739890130Unfortunately the Golden Age for Spain lasted maybe 120 years. About 70 years into it (((mysticism))) started creeping into its culture.
>>739875816Returnal is pretty good but the marketing was abysmal, can't say much about SAARos since I haven't played it but if it's more of the same, it's decent at the very leastBut they're not Mario, or Halo, or hell even The Last of Us. It's probably gonna take a Bloodborne 2 (or GTA 6 really being the game of the century and never coming to PC)
>>739880626Revenue =/= profit amigo
>>739880626Read nigger, it's implying their revenue is half of 10.9 billion. 5.45 billion made and they're still operating at a loss.
>>739874096Are ips screens worth it?
>>739874976Maybe for the USA, the UK has been in a state of decay since WW2.Ironically Germany boomed post-WW2 from the industrial infrastructure that Hitler created, but they're currently destroying it all.
>>739890130Remember how China started advencing like crazy in the 2010s? Must be a coincidence.Haha.
>>739888171The other side wouldn't have torpedoed the other countries with an insane tariff back-and-forth, so there'd have been at least one wave of price raises fewer.
>>739874976The jews are trying to see how hard they can push before people stop consooming.Long as people are willing to buy it, line and price will keep going up.
>>739874096Remember when billionaires weren't fucking the entire world up with their giant data centers?
>>739874096It's more important to use all available RAM to make muscular photos of Trump and help college students cheat through college without learning basic algebra
>>739875084No, discounts were the norm.
>>739874096yeah back then companies actually had to try, now we actually have too many mentally ill niggers defending their corporation of choice, rewarding every little misstep
>>739874096Insane how awful the 3DS mario party games were. Mario party DS was great, how the fuck did they ruin it so fast with the sequels
