Game prices for the past 30 years haven’t kept pace with inflation.
I recognise the argument that publishers are shifting larger volumes of units now, which has been a factor that has allowed the industry to keep price increases below inflation for the last 30 years.
Wages not being even close to keeping up with inflation (especially housing inflation) is the real issue here, not the $70/$80 video game.
You should be angry at your reduced purchasing power in all of society, not just with the price of Nintendo games.
(Secondary less unpopular opinion, the best games out these days are multiplatform and released at least 5 years ago, buy them for << $80 and wait for sale the new releases, when they too are 5 years old)
The average quality of games has both gone up in terms of graphics and smooth gameplay but down on being interesting and innovative. I’d say this is also kind of part of the issue.
Baldur’s Gate 3 in my opinion was allowed to cost more than 60 euros just because it was so well made and was innovative for the genre.
Mario Kart 9 Open World though? It’s literally just mario kart again but with a kinda useless open world, why should that cost 80 euros?