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Gaming industry's $80 pricing strategy faces first major setback

Thursday July 31, 2025. 04:26 PM , from BoingBoing
Gaming industry's $80 pricing strategy faces first major setback
The Great Nintendo Price Hike (I leave it to future historians to come up with a better name for this significant and extremely bizarre gaming industry moment) evidently hasn't been working out for everyone. Precious few actual $80 games have been announced or released thus far, but Xbox has walked back the only one on its docket, delaying their previous 'challenging' decision to jack their first-party game prices up. — Read the rest
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