Games are Getting More Expensive?

NBA 2K sparks the AAA game price hike conversation. Ninja streams to YouTube without a contract. And Destiny 2's Twitch plugin breaks site-wide subtrain records for big streamers.

We talk a lot of crap and pull a lot of stats from the top of our head. Here's the sources for everything we bring up:

$70 Video Games Coming

1999 Nintendo Catalog (This is the catalog I (Herc) was looking at. I've since found others with game prices right at $59.99 and even higher from the same era)

Destiny $300mil 2019 Digital Sales Revenue

Destiny $500mil 10-year Activision Budget

Bungie $100mil NetEase* Investment (Herc said TenCent in the podcast, it was NetEase)

Activision Reports $164mil Profit from Selling Destiny IP

Ninja Streams to YouTube as Free Agent with 160k+ Concurrent Viewers

Shroud & Ninja's Mixer Plans Interrupted by Covid

Destiny 2 Bounty Makes Streamers Thousands of Dollars

Gladd Replays Footage to Keep Stream Going (he does apologize sincerely, Herc thinks we should forgive him and get over it)

Bungie Twitch Extension Gift Subs Only Work on Desktop (Way down in the Twitch Extension section)