How do you feel about game prices?

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Shadow1980 said:

Well, considering this:

I don't think games cost that much per se. They're certainly easier on the wallet than they were back in the late 90s when I first started buying my own games. Of course, even today $60 is a decent sum of money, and I'm not willing to buy every game brand new at full price, so for ones that I'm less sure about and don't consider must-buys, I'll wait until I can get it for cheaper.

Awesome. This really sums up how I feel. That being said, I think games prices are fine and more than fair as long as the games are good. I'm 35 and I remember paying (my parents anyway) $40-50 for NES games and later up to $60 or $65 for SNES games. Considering that it's over 20 years later and we're still paying the same price when inflation has basically raised the price of everything around us, I think the price is a deal in that sense. When you also factor the price of making a game compared to 20 years ago, it makes me sad for developers and publishers that so many good games don't sell that well. Also upsetting that some games sell ten or twenty times what a similar or even better game may sell just because they're not a known franchise.