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  • It used to be a lot better. For the SNES they made a collection of all super Mario games (literally all up to that point) as a single game for the SNES “Super Mario All Stars +”.

    I think the biggest issue with the Mario galaxy bundle, is they had released the “3D All stars collection” a couple years back (which got flack for not containing Super Mario Galaxy 2). So if you bought that game, you now have to pay $70 ($100 CAD) just for Galaxy 2 (Making the re-release of the game more expensive than the original).















  • Deflation can be really damaging because it disincentivizes things like investments and longterm projects. Here are a couple of examples:

    • One of the biggest issues with mortgages is if you are under water (can you pay off your debt if you sell the house). With deflation, you could buy a house today and owe more than the house is worth tomorrow.
    • If the total cost to manufacture a car is $X, but by the time I can sell the car the market would only pay $X-50, then I’m actually better off not making the car.

    Essentially, high deflationary pressure causes people to hold their money and not spend it. It’s what happened in Japan around 1990s-2010s resulting in basically negative growth in their economy - Source

    Hyper inflation is a similar issue, but on the other end. The value of money is lost so quickly that things like life savings can become worthless due to money losing its value so rapidly.