nordlead on 07 March 2009
| Loud_Hot_White_Box said: I remember Dragon Warrior 2 for NES was 59.99 at launch. Accounting for inflation, that's a lot. Games this gen look expensive only because the PS1/PS2 eras saw lower prices than the Nintendo-dominated eras before them. |
That was because carts are a lot more expensive to make than CD/DVDs. Sony undercut Nintendo's price by introducing a cheaper medium to store the game on. Now that it has gone back up for Microsoft and Sony it is only due to increased development costs.
Nintendo kept it at $50, which implies that their dev costs have remained around the same as the previous generation.
