Game prices for the past 30 years haven’t kept pace with inflation.
I recognise the argument that publishers are shifting larger volumes of units now, which has been a factor that has allowed the industry to keep price increases below inflation for the last 30 years.
Wages not being even close to keeping up with inflation (especially housing inflation) is the real issue here, not the $70/$80 video game.
You should be angry at your reduced purchasing power in all of society, not just with the price of Nintendo games.
(Secondary less unpopular opinion, the best games out these days are multiplatform and released at least 5 years ago, buy them for << $80 and wait for sale the new releases, when they too are 5 years old)
You’re not wrong. I believe I paid $44 for Ultima for the NES back in 89. I’ve personally never paid more than $49 for a game since then. Of course at this point I have like 2500 Steam games I haven’t really played and access to a butt-ton of retro-gaming so I’ll probably never spend more than $49 for a game.