Pemalite said:
Dulfite said:
$60 in 1996 would be $104 today roughly. Many games were sold for more than $60 in 1996, some as high as $75-80 each in USA. So, $60 today would be at most $35 in 1996. Just for context.
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To be fair though, our pricing expectations have also changed.. You wouldn't get away with selling a game at $104 USD today.
A game release also doesn't exist in a vacuum... They need to release with competition in mind... So you can't go silly with pricing.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a remaster done right, with the right price... And it included THREE games that helped defined the Xbox 360 and the Sci-Fi RPG genre, not just one... Compared to that? Skyward Sword is overpriced and under-featured.
Of course, I bought it anyway... But I will grumble about the Nintendo tax.
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People who cite inflation always forget about value-perception. When people think of new, physical games, they think of fifty or sixty dollars. It's an intrenched, psychological value that's been around for twenty years and has nothing to do with the relation between the price of a new game and their personal income.
Last edited by JackHandy - on 16 August 2021
