capitalism/game industry ramble, all things I've said before 

Watching today's Jimquisition talking about ~the $70 price tag~ .

I once again will always be snarky about this because game prices have always been varied and changing.

What games are 60USD? Where?

I paid 120NZD for FF13 when it came out. Atlus games are often around 90NZD. Both of these are, supposedly, 60USD new, in the US, right?

There's no consistency here because of a combination of publisher choices and exchange rates.

Add to that special editions muddying up the prices I frankly never see a digital storefront where any two games are the same price. (Though, admittedly, Switch games are pretty consistent... consistently 100NZD.)

So now we're going to get games 15-25NZD more for the new generation, all because of whatever the US is doing.

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