Topic: Do you believe that there is a place for $70(USD) base price games on switch?

This thread isn't even a week old and I'm already tired of it. See y'all around.

I'm in Ireland and every website here seems to list the new Zelda Preorder as €70. I definitely understand Gamestop doing that as they are scabby Gombeens, but some of the others we have like Smyths was really surprising as they were usually always at least €5-10 cheaper than other places.
I'm hoping that it's just a placeholder price until closer to release date 😅

Funny how people talk something is old but yet still respond - makes ya wonder...

I don't think there's a place for games of that price on any console and that's one of the many reasons I refuse to upgrade my PS4 to a PS5. Plus I just refuse to pay that much for a console. Among other reasons.

I'm luckily in a position where I could afford a PS5 if I wanted to I just refuse to fork out that much for any console. Especially when the Switch is still going strong, the PS4 still holds up so well and also there's a lot of games on the PS3 that still stand up really well and are fun to revisit. I recently bought the whole Resistance trilogy on PS3 for £5 alltogether. The first two games only costing me £1. Why spend £70 on one game when I can get a whole trilogy of really fun games for £5.00

@Tounushi I agree with that, when I bought a PS4 the 360/PS3 already looked dated, however the PS4 is/was throwing out mind blowing graphics at the end of its lifecycle and even if the PS5 looks great, I personally don't see the graphical jump being that great from what I've seen. In a couple of years when devs have learned to fully utilize the power of the PS5 and are making games designed solely with that console in mind we might see a bit more of a jump. I recently replayed Resistance 2 on PS3 and honestly for a 2008 game it wouldn't look out of place as an early PS4 game

In response to graphics/vs art style, while the hyper realsitic graphics of TLOU2 impress me to no end, a brilliant art style like in Bioshock Infinite will always get my attention more

"The PlayStation 3 will retail for... 599 US Dollars." (599 US Dollars) ((599 US Dollars)) (((599 US Dollars))) ((((599 US Dollars))))
The Phoenix Wrong version of that meme is the best one.

Maybe a $70 price tag will cause me to play my $60 backlog….

Except WiiU ports, and a few others (Mario Strykers, 1-2 Switch and the new Kirby game that should be free to play), I am mostly cool with what Nintendo offers price wise. If they do charge $70, I get that inflation has cut into things, but I would hope they make it worth the extra $10 in some way. Perhaps a bit naive on my part.

Many of the SNES RPGs were in the $70-80 range originally. And that's in 1990s money.
Add inflation and suddenly Chrono Trigger was a $120 game.
$70 (in current money), that could buy you Mystic Quest (a "budget" game at $39.99 MSRP in 1992)

Though I'd argue FF6 or Chrono Trigger had gameplay to make you feel like you were getting your $80 in 1995 money's worth.
I enjoyed those much more than FFX which felt like it had more ambition of being a movie than a game (which Square probably did, remember Square Pictures)

That's the only positive I could say higher prices would benefit gamers: if it makes publishers put out GAMES that feel like a $70 value. But they won't.