zorg1000 said:
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.
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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.
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Did the average salary go up by that percentage as well? And games cost $50 last gen.
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Roughly. Of course it depends on the country, but in Sweden it has pretty much gone up by 50% between 1990 and 2013 despite all the crisises and austerities. And I would bet the rate is very similar in the US and the rest of the Western world.
Perhaps the standard price in last gen was $50 but on the other hand games in current gen drop in price very fast in just a few months after launch, and I've read many times that people say games in the Snes era cost $60 if not more. And I know for a fact that the price of games in general (PC as well as consoles) in Sweden has stayed flat since 1995.
