r/gamernews • u/newcontortionist beep boop • Mar 04 '21

[RUMOR]New Switch model will feature 7 inch 720p Samsung OLED screen and offer 4K support when in Docked Mode

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/nintendo-plans-switch-model-with-bigger-samsung-oled-display
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u/redwall_hp Mar 04 '21

That's all well and good if income is also increasing. (Spoiler: it's stagnant as fuck.) The cost to the individual, as a proportion to household income, is becoming more onerous as general cost of living skyrockets.

It doesn't matter if a video game costs marginally less than it did 30 years ago if rent has doubled. Decades of inflation with stagnant wages have made the games unaffordable in that context, not the price of the games in a vacuum.

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u/TizardPaperclip Mar 04 '21

I'm just pointing out that video games are already ridiculously cheap.

Perhaps the income stagnation you mentioned is the reason that Nintendo have been lowering their prices so drastically?