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Darc Requiem on 06 October 2010
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Wagram said:
Darc Requiem said:
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KylieDog said:
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plasticman13 said:

Good. I wouldn't want to pay $60 for a 3DS game :P


I would not pay 60 for a 3DS game or any handheld game for that matter. If next gen is anything higher I will shun everything to the bargain bin. Outrageous what we pay now for games.


Games are cheaper now than in NES/SNES/N64 days.  You really don't know how good you have it.

If any of you payed more than 60 bucks for one of those games. Then you deserved to be ripped off. No game on ANY of those consoles is worth that. EVER.

Well Mr. High and Mighty, if we didn't pay for those games you'd be lucky to be stuck playing crappy Facebook flash games because there would be no gaming industry.

I'm not high and mighty. I just know when i'm being ripped off. I love many NES games. Hell my favorite series started on the NES. But I would not pay 60 bucks for it.

No you are because you are talking out of your ass. You know why games costs were so high for NES, SNES, and Genesis games? Cartridges. Developers were playing $20 to $30 per cartridge, versus $1 or less they pay for optical media. Hence the $60, $70, and some times even higher priced games. Games like Virtua Racing for Genesis had an expensive DSP, the SVP chip, that was added into the cost as well.  Sure Nintendo and Sega could charge $50 for cartridge games but they didn't have to pay the licensing fees that third party developers had to. Yup on top of the high cartridge costs, 3rd party had to play a licensing fee. So you have cartridge costs and licensing fees plus the retailer has to get their cut. License fees and media cost are much cheaper now than they were then. Games were justifiably more expensive during the cartridge era.