Warren Spector Said If Publishers Didn't Overcharge For Games People Wouldn't Have To Buy Them Used

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Slimebeast said:

zorg1000 said:

DerpSandwich said:
If you factor in inflation they're still cheaper than games have ever been. I can't complain. Nobody's forced to buy at launch, either.

I dont get the whole inflation argument, thats assuming that everybody gets paid more as product prices increase.

How can you not get it?

Prices nominally go up due to inflation. This is occuring all the time in the industrialized world everywhere.

If in 1990 a typical small car cost $10,000 but today it costs $15,000 and the meal at McDonalds went from $5 to $7 and the average movie ticket from $6.50 to $9 and the salary for an average worker increased from $2,000 to $3,000, but in the same time the video game remained at $60, then surely the game got relatively cheaper.

Did the average salary go up by that percentage as well? And games cost $50 last gen.