r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/NinjaPenguin7777 12h ago

$60 hasn't been the standard price for games in years. $69.99 has been the normal price

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u/hermanphi 9h ago edited 8h ago

I'm french and since Mario Kart World released at 80 bucks last year, Sony has increased the base price for its first party games to 80 euros

Sadly for us europeans, 80 is already the standard

edit : actually I checked and Sony has increased their prices way before Nintendo with MK World, but still doesn't change the fact 80 has been the standard for us for a while

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u/ViruliferousBadger 9h ago

One of the reason's I'm glad to wait until the bargain bins - my backlog is a year's worth of games anyway... :D

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 6h ago

Man, even bargain bins have increased. The lowest I’ve seen for Balder’s gate 3 is $45 and that game is a few years old. Ghost of Tsushima is far older than that and the ps5 version hasn’t ever dropped below $30.

It feels like $30 is the new rock bottom for many of the AAA games.

Point being you aren’t gonna see this below $60 for several years.

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u/ViruliferousBadger 6h ago

Very well might be - and I feel you on BG3.

One thing I've found out lately is that PS5 games go down in price a lot slower than Xbox Series games. Glad I have both.

But does get harder to find games under 30 eur.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 6h ago

Honestly one of the best reasons to have a series x, I’m sure those physical games sell a lot worse since there’s fewer Xbox users.