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

Grant St. Clair
Jul 31, 2025
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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 docke…

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