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Kaan Serin

"Games are amazingly affordable": Former PlayStation boss defends $80 prices because stuff like Mario Kart provides "hours and hours and hours with just one purchase"

Mario Kart World screenshot featuring Birdo.

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has once again chimed in on the debate around $80 games, and he doesn't actually mind the higher price tags.

When Nintendo announced that Mario Kart World would be launching alongside the Switch 2 with an $80 price, it didn't take other publishers long to follow suit. Microsoft soon said some of its major games, including The Outer Worlds 2, would also adopt the (now) new standard.

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