Being a video game enthusiast is becoming a hobby more and more expensive. And the latest news about the price of the products that will come out for Nintendo Switch 2, with Mario Kart World to 90 euros In physical edition, they did not quiet the soul of the users, whose complaints become increasingly on.
The former CEO of PlayStation intervened on the question Shawn Layden. In an interview a Player Drive expressed a point of view that takes into account various economic factors, first of all theinflation. According to the ex, in considering this data actually the prices of video games have lowered themselves. “59.99 dollars of 1999 are equivalent to about $ 100 in 2025. So, as you know, your purchasing power than the cost of living is lower than in the past. But companies – he said – were still reluctant to raise the price”.
Layden then commented that, if development studies had added a certain figure of generation to generation, video games would not have protested so much. “Probably each generation should have foreseen an increase in the price of the software of 5 dollars And make sure that it was the typical ‘well, at each generation there are another $ 5’ and this point you would have already reached 90 dollars “.
A sort of “training“, Therefore, to keep the users meekly. But even if this path had followed, the situation would have been the same. And the company from which Layden comes from, has recently communicated that, as a consequence of the duties imposed by the American president Donald Trump, the price of PlayStation 5 was raised by the 25%thus reaching 500 euros in Europe. Sony defined this choice a “difficult decision”, motivated by a “complex economic context”.
Now the consequences on the videogame market in the long run remain to be seen.
Will users be willing to spend more and more on games? Or they will sip in mass on the Key resale siteswho provide numerous attractive discounts? But above all, the industry for how we know it will be able to remain standing, with the development costs that continue to increase?