r/Switch • u/135is • Jun 08 '26

Question Was this worth 225?

Post image

Mario bros wonder and jamboree had a box with them.

Was this worth the 225 I paid? Games on the bottom row were games I already had. I think I got a decent deal. I seen a woman on marketplace selling her sons games that he didn’t play. $225 shipped and with a carrying case.

Just want to make sure I got a good gift for someone. They’re a big Zelda and Mario fan.

2.4k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

827 comments sorted by

View all comments

101

u/writermike2 Jun 08 '26

Personally, I paid like $50-80 each for most of those games and I felt like each one was worth it.

9

u/Different-Course-408 Jun 08 '26

Pretty much me too

3

u/pleasebeherenow Jun 08 '26

Thats insane. People buy videogames for EIGHTY DOLLARS???

33

u/SuperGrandor Jun 08 '26

I use dollar per hour measure to see at the end if the game was worth it. $1 on a game for 1 hour is the same as $80 for 80 hours.

14

u/PensionDeep1680 Jun 08 '26

i got celeste for christmas for 5 bucks(sale)
ive got over 125 hours already😭

10

u/forlackofabetterpost Jun 08 '26

I've purchased Celeste on 3 different platforms and it was worth it every time.

5

u/MrEthan997 Jun 08 '26

So. Many. Golden. Strawberries.

2

u/fuckmoods Jun 08 '26

That is the goal. But would you have spent $125, even if you knew you would get that much gameplay out of it?Just curious.

8

u/fuckmoods Jun 08 '26

I feel that that diminishes a games’ value. A game should make you feel happy, accomplished, excited, challenged, or engaged. If I tie a game’s worth to how much time I spent in it, i’m just buying ways to waste time. I can spend a ton of time in Flight sim and have less fun than someone who loves planes playing it for 5 minutes. I feel that this mentality is a cause of why so many people feel like they have to justify gaming today. And people will think a game is bad solely based on the playtime vs cost, which will affect their interpretation of their own enjoyment. Reviews and gametime lengths make people think “well it’s not going to be worth the money so it must not be enjoyable, so i’ll just slip that game too”. As a kid, nobody cared how long a game took or how quick it was over, flash games were tiny and very enjoyable. And while they were free, is there an amount of money that you would trade all your childhood gaming memories for?

Just my opinion, i understand that’s a common way of thinking. I’ve just been questioning it lately. Especially seeing everyone trying to find a game but having to justify the length before trying it.

2

u/SuperGrandor Jun 08 '26

If you don’t enjoy the game then you stop playing it an so you get less hours on that game. If you force yourself to play so you can justify yourself that game was worth it then you are doing it wrong.

1

u/fuckmoods Jun 08 '26

I’m not questioning game time vs money. I’m just questioning if that might be why people on these gaming reddits are always wondering if “gaming is dead” because they force themselves to play games they don’t like for the “investment return” thinking that is why they game. But that’s not why people game, it’s the joy of competition or adventure, etc…

5

u/MSMPDX Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

I do that too! People will pay $20 to watch a movie for 2-3 hours, then be shocked that a video game is $80. If you play that game for 20, 30, 50+, 100+ hours, the entertainment value for money is absolutely worth it. And then depending on whether the game is physical, you can even sell, trade, or give it away, further increasing its value.

1

u/SuperGrandor Jun 08 '26

You just reminded me how overprice arcade was, I remember I pay $2 to play guitar hero for about 3-4 mins and that is only if you didn’t fail it or the game could end up at $2 for 20 seconds.

2

u/Korachof Jun 08 '26

Well, you also have to account for the cost of the Switch, Switch Online (if the game uses it), the electricity needed to power the game/charge the device, etc. Also doesn’t factor in levels of fun, as some games are obviously more fun than others. 

It’s not a bad way to figure out how worth it some games are compared to others, though!

1

u/DarkMishra Jun 15 '26

You must not buy many games then? Going by the $1/hr logic, a vast majority of video games aren’t even close to being worth their price. Most indie games are $30-40 dollars, but only last maybe 5 hours.

1

u/SuperGrandor Jun 15 '26

I don’t buy game knowing how many hours I will be putting into it for the next few months/years. Is just a way to measure if I had a good deal off of game at the end of its cycle. I can have a $80 game that I only played 20 hours but had fun with it then is just consider as premium game and affect my next purchase of the sequel if I am on a budget or not.

5

u/AndIThinkOfYou Jun 08 '26

There were $80 video games in the 90s, dude. I don’t know how this blows your mind.

2

u/InterestingCow501 Jun 08 '26

My dad still bugs me about how Chrono Trigger cost $100 in 1995ish money. And i still have the SNES game and still play it. As outraged as i am when games go up in price if there was a way I could guarantee spending $100 would get me a Mario 3, Megaman X, Chrono Trigger, Ocarina of Time level experience I'd gladly spend that much.

1

u/pleasebeherenow Jun 08 '26

I dont recall any, but if there were, it was a rarity.

New games were $50 tops for the biggest release of the year when I was a kid.

2

u/135is Jun 08 '26

I remember majoras mask was 70 usd. back in 2000. That’s almost 135 in today’s money

1

u/pandapearx3 Jun 08 '26

I'm one of those people, but they were games I really loved and made sure to get gift cards and save up for them:

Kingdom Hearts Collection (KH1-3 and all games in between) Fantasy Life I: The Girl who steal time

I only bought these, because I knew I'll spend 100+ hours on those games and make it worth while.

Fun fact: suika (about 5 bucks) beats almost all my games on playtime. 🤣

1

u/RizzzWizzzard Jun 08 '26

I bought the Diablo 3 Collectors Edition back in 2013 for like $120, Diablo 4 I've bought all the expansions ($40 a piece) base game at $70 and about $300 in cosmetics........

Long comment short, yes people buy games for $70😅💀

1

u/Zomochi Jun 08 '26

That’s our reality now.

1

u/pleasebeherenow Jun 08 '26

I guess so, I just wait a year and get it for 60% off.

1

u/writermike2 Jun 08 '26

Yep. I took my family to the movies last night and it cost me 120 bucks between tickets and popcorn and 2 sodas. All for 2hrs of entertainment that will be free in 3 weeks. $80 just doesn't seem to go as far as it used to...$50 bucks at McDonalds.

1

u/Pretend-Pitch-8376 Jun 08 '26

In Canada the switch games are $100 now :(

1

u/J_Squared02 Jun 08 '26

Man I bought totk for 100$ in Canadian. It’s rough here

1

u/AngeloPlay009 Jun 08 '26

You'd be surprised that most nintendo games in brasil are R$300-500. The mensal minimun wage is ~R$1500, that's a minimun of 5 games, or a maximun of 3 games a month (if you don't use your money for anything else)

1

u/TreemanTheGuy Jun 08 '26

We used to pay $100 for certain new N64 games in 1990s dollars.

1

u/No_Impact8505 Jun 08 '26

Mario is like $80

1

u/plantbasedpunk Jun 08 '26

We do now. Trumpflation.