New generation starts out with a smaller install base, so you'd expect to sell fewer units then when you had a large potential audience. So to keep revenue up, they raise the per unit cost.
I've also noticed gamne prices have been dropping a lot quicker, and I don't just think it's the economy. They can sell at a high enough volume that they can still make money at $40.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
