>spends hundreds of dollars to support Japanese Capitalism
No no you don't understand! It's not that they can't afford their luxury product, it's that they aren't able to buy their luxury product the instant it comes out, so obviously the entire capitalist system has failed them all!
With Nintendo it's easy to believe. I could understand them being caught off guard with the Wii, but there's too many cases to ignore. The NES mini, the SNES mini, and Amiibos.
I do believe that in the cases of more limited items like the amiibos and the minis that they did use artificial scarcity to some degree, that is a part of the reason I said-
My point is more about the core of their business, their consoles, specifically the NES, Wii, and Switch. Given the high numbers of those systems made I believe they were just at the limits of their supply chain and had nothing to do with artificial scarcity.
Sheeit, cartridges' used to cost $70-80 on launch day.
Its not even a hypothetical, people pay $100+ for a game all the time. Its called the deluxe edition.
I guess, I don't know maybe I'm just disenfranchised by the overwhelming amount of companies that sell the exact same game every year with minor bug fixes and expect me to gratefully throw my wallet at them. Indie games just get more and more appealing as time goes on.
the issue is that jim is a conSOOMer who believes that he has to buy every new thing that comes out in his hobby. it's a weird mindset that you see from a lot of people in recent years, where they basically feel like they're forced to constantly buy whatever frivolous thing and can never save money as a result.
Seriously I don't understand how smooth brained you must be to enjoy his content. I watched him when I was a retarded child, and once I developed past retard stage I realized how horrible he was. If an adult legitimately enjoys his content they must have room temp IQ's.
The chronological adults I know that like him are all unironic communists. One of them thinks he's somehow superior to the other retards because he was a remf in Afghanistan.
Dude this shit ain't new, if it AVGN and the countless people who followed wouldn't have ever existed, lots of broken crap on those systems. Hell lots of samey shit on those systems too, how many piss poor Mario rip offs are there? Even had the COD equivalents. imagine how much complaining there'd be today if Capcom made just the original six Mega Man games now, let alone the X series and such. But nostalgia does wonder to old wounds, people tend to forget the crap, reevaluate other shit, it or at least laugh at it, leaving the good behind. You can see that more recently as well, people complained so much about the seventh gen, but now people have mostly forgotten about most of the drama from that time. Resident Evil 5 for example got a lot of shit, outside of being less horror focused it was one of the first major example of on-disc DLC, so people were utterly furious at it back then. Now people have mellowed out considerably and while it's not considered a great RE it's still got a decent sized fanbase who view it as a decent action title.
There's still a few examples, I quite like the IL-2 Great Battles series. which is a series of WW2 air combat simulators, those titles are 80 bucks each at full, plus also have quite a bit of DLC aircraft. So while they're rare, and certainly when you factor in sales you're likely actually not gonna be paying anywhere near that if you wait, indeed the Russia focused titles of IL-2 are at 13 bucks on sale. But point still stands that there's certainly a handful of examples of niche games that launch at higher than normal prices to this day, and there's that people are willing to pay it.
