Mario Kart à 90€ sur Switch 2, est-ce vraiment si cher ? Replongeons dans l'histoire du jeu vidéo pour comprendre pourquoi certains titres coûtent plus que d'autres. Des cartouches Super Nintendo aux Blu-ray, le prix des jeux a toujours été un sujet de débat.
On décortique ensemble les raisons de ces coûts, en passant par les supports de stockage comme les cartouches, le coût de production et l'ambition des jeux comme Mario Kart World. Vous allez enfin comprendre pourquoi votre prochain jeu Nintendo pourrait bien vous coûter un bras !
Alors, prêt à relativiser le prix des jeux vidéo ? Découvrez les secrets de l'industrie et les facteurs qui influencent le prix de vos titres préférés.
00:00I presented the Switch 2 to you, I told you about the latest Mario Kart World
00:04and I see in the comments a lot of messages about the price of the console
00:07and especially on the price of Mario Kart at €90.
00:11Everyone is talking about it everywhere, you talk about it with your friends, family and company.
00:15Be careful, there are already many PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series games that are already worth €80, don't forget that.
00:24There you have it, and you should know that producing an ambitious, big-budget video game is becoming more and more expensive.
00:31But above all, that's not what I wanted to say, it was to tell you that I discovered video games a very long time ago.
00:36And I remember when I went to the supermarket, to Carrefour, to shopping centers to buy Super Nintendo video games,
00:44we are still in the years that go back now.
00:48Well, buying Super Nintendo games, folks, cost between 499 francs and 650 francs.
00:57Sometimes there were even games for 699 francs.
01:01I don't know if you can imagine the price of games at the time, knowing that in the meantime there was an increase in prices, in the cost of living,
01:09which means that today, a baguette of bread in the era of the Super Nintendo was worth much less than it is today.
01:16So, if we compare the price of the Super Nintendo games, but I could have mentioned the Nintendo 64, why did I mention these games?
01:25In fact, you should know that the arrival of DVD, CD and Blu-ray have allowed the price of games to fall.
01:32Our games have significantly decreased in price, which is also part of the success of the PlayStation, is that games on those platforms cost much less.
01:41Why? Because CD media was cheaper at the time.
01:44However, anything that works on cartridges, and therefore on memory cards, costs more.
01:50It turns out that on the Nintendo Switch 2, it's a new cartridge shape, and when you have a game that's really small, it's easy.
01:57You have to put it on a cartridge that doesn't cost very much, since there isn't much memory on it.
02:01When you put it on a cartridge where it needs a lot of memory, the game costs more.
02:06This is particularly the case with Mario Kart World, which is a very ambitious game, with a fairly large world, and which, as a result, will fit on a large cartridge.
02:14That's why the game costs 90 euros.
02:16And that's also why Donkey Kong, Balanza, will cost less, 80 euros, since it fits on a cartridge that's perhaps smaller.
02:25So that's why.
02:26Remember, games have always been expensive.
02:28And I'm not talking about Neo-Geo games, since we'll say that it's a special case, but it's not new.
02:33So, yes, it is expensive.
02:34I agree with you, especially right now with the cost of living.
02:36But look back at the history of video games.
02:38There are explanations for this.
02:40There are games that cost less.
02:41We know why.
02:42And there are games that have always been expensive.
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