When I was a kid in the early 90s, games were around $40.

This is emphatically not true. SNES games regularly cost $70 in the early 90s. There were some $50 titles from the beginning, but $60 has been the standard price since well before the 360, and it was in fact significantly more common to exceed that price before that. It was only around then that everything started to…

So don’t make stupidly expensive AAA games, then. Stop facescanning Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba and contracting 13 different studios.

Go ahead and keep claiming that amidst reports of record-high profits for last fiscal year at Capcom and other AAA publishers.

I’ve got no problem paying more for games if the publishers would commit to that money going directly to higher wages for the developers.

Games at large almost certainly should’ve ripped off that $60 band-aid sooner than they did. That price holding for over 3 decades was nuts, and brought alllll the other alternative monetization methods, some of which turned out to be infinite money glitches and obviated a sticker price at all. But now that all those…

I get where you’re coming from and I agree, but come on. A Charger is not a requirement to get around a city. It’s an unreliable, overpriced pig of a poorly slapped-together gas guzzler only bought by the stupidest people in our society who base their life decisions off Instagram posts and music videos.

But if people made good financial decisions, our economy would collapse like *snap*...

There are probably thousands of better options than what he picked though. City design aside, there are much more practical ways of dealing with this. Alot of this seems like “wants” vs “needs”. a 20k BMW? Sounds like a bad idea already. A dodge charger? also sounds like a bad idea period.

18 months and counting for a Sienna.  We had to change model years twice now because of how long it is taking.  And we are fine with two separate models and basically any option set.  It is still awful for some Toyotas.

ALLLRIGHT! Time to get that $60,000.00 C8 Corvette.... what... why are you guys laughing?

I believe the caveat was that he wants one of the hybrids. Glancing over my local dealership’s webpage they supposedly have about 30 Highlanders in stock, four of which are hybrids. Needless to say they don’t have any hybrids currently on the lot.

“they have to because growth must always go up.”

Last week my 75 year old father was talking about how he planned to trade in his 2010 Highlander for a 2023. I tried to talk him out of it and he just wasn’t having it.

Thankfully after the sales person at our local Toyota dealer told him he had no ETA and that Toyota didn’t take special orders, he gave up and decided…

Ask Toyota buyers whether they think the market is deflating.  ADMs seem to be the norm at a lot of dealers because there is still barely any inventory in many areas, especially for hybrids.

Nah, they’ll probably find a way to blame the strike. Prices always go up; they have to because growth must always go up.

$5000 taillights aren’t helping either:

I picked up a 2023 Mach E GT a few weeks ago that had been sitting on a lot since May, dealer gave me $2500.00 off and there was a $1800 rebate from Ford. Still insane price, but I do love the car.

Give it another couple of years, if you can, unless there is another Federal buyback program for cars then prices should start getting relatively saner then.

Insurance is ballooning out of control to compensate.