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The game prices I'm ok with. When I was a kid, video games cost $70 CAD, and that's almost $200 now. I'm perfectly OK with going back to buying fewer games. I have too many of them I shouldn't have bought in the first place.
I'm wildly upset with the console price, in no small part because Nintendo and other electronics manufacturers seem to be trying to smooth over the shock of Dorito Don's tariffs by increasing prices globally.
The Americans made their own bed. I'm not willing to lie in it with them.
Hmm when I look it up with this bank of Canada website it claims a game from 2011 that cost 60CAD would be $83 today. I'm wondering if there's other tools I can use to cross reference? Just curious how you got to the $200 number. Maybe I'm wrong.
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/
I think that you guys may have been kids in different decades.
The only way I get to roundabout $200 now is if they are talking about 1983/84, but the NES hadn't even released in NA back then, so that's somewhat unlikely?
Oh man, 2011... I'm a millennial, and even I was already out of college in 2011. My 'kid' games were $80 USD in the 90s. Here's an article from 2014 that someone made about how insane N64 game prices were.
According to the CPI Inflation Calculator, $80 USD in 1997 is $160 today.
It's a different example but Super Street Fighter II for the SNES was CAD$99.99 in the 1994 Sears Wishbook which is CAD$191 in today dollars.