| MikeRox said:
4th gen £44.99 Inflation between 1990 and now means that even if NES games were £39.99 (as most games generally retail for now) you'd expect to pay £88.99 for the game today. You don't see people complaining to the same extent that Mars Bars were 25p in the 90s but now you'd be expected to pay about 75p in most shops. So actually the cost of new games has halved in real terms and that's without considering that it takes far more people to make those games now than it did before. Luckily much bigger userbases had been offsetting this. This is how we ended up needing games to sell millions to break even while 100,000 on the NES would be the big time. |
Are you sure?
Batman 45 pounds.
The Witcher 3
45 pounds aswell.
Where are you buying your games? You are getting sweet deals.
Star Wars battlefront
A whooping 48 pounds!
I found project cars for 40 though. I think there are some exceptions indeed, but the new AAA titles seem to have increased in price. Things that are a bit cheaper like project cars, Tokiden, etc seem to go for the more traditional price.
As for the inflation argument, it doesnt take into account that we are paid less relatively aswell with the devalue of currency. Games are definitly not cheaper than they were 2 generations ago. There is an argument that can be had for wether they are worth the money or not in comparison to how much they cost to develop, but they are in no way cheaper.
