Are games today really worth the asking price?

[Kasz216]

Khuutra said:

dsgrue3 said:

Khuutra said:
$70 in 1996 USD is approximately seven hundred thousand USD today.

They're worth it for me when I buy them and am satisfied; Vanquish was worth it. Mass Effect was worth it. Skyward Sword was worth it. Castlevania was worth it.

They're worth it when I say they are, and when I'm happy; there is no other criteria worth considering.

No.

OT:  Some are, some aren't.

Okay, okay

Seven-fifty, I was rounding down and that was wrong of me

I'm not sure where you are getting that number from...

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

According to the BLS... 70 dollars in 96 is about = to ~100 dollars today.

 

Although, i'd point out that inflation in terms of videogames is largely a poor indicator anyway.

Since unlike, say an apple... technology videogames change in prices quite rapidly and the cost of making such a thing changes rapidly.

I mean, today an Indy NES level game tends to run you about $5... where if you were to listen to a price indicator, it would cost MORE money, and not less then what it was sold for when the NES was released.

 

Although to your point the CPI does tend to udnerestimate inflation, and we may infact be in the middle of a huge stagflation crisis we don't even know about.  Still, I don't think it's quite that bad.  Even when you factor in the fact that inflation gets worse the more expensive the product is.