JackHandy said:
It's crazy to me. I know inflation is a thing, but so is sticker shock. And when you live long enough, sooner or later, your perception gets all messed up and you start thinking things should be this price and that and you sort of forget about inflation. To me, console games should be fifty dollars, no more. I'm stuck in the PS2 era forever lol. |
I have sticker shock as well getting closer to 50. Even though I've lived through 3 currencies (guilder, euro, cad) messing up perception. For example soft serve cost 0.75 cents when I grew up (about $0.40 at 1980s conversion rate), nowadays I pay CAD 3.50 ($2.60 today)
Video games have been an exception, getting cheaper first then staying at the same price for a long time. (Well in most places, in Canada they went from CAD 60 to CAD 80 during last gen due to exchange rates, currently CAD 90 while FF15 is listed at CAD 93.50 already) Yet the growth has gone from console games, better margins on digital sales, DLC, MTX, season passes have been exhausted, thus inflation is now catching up.
But yeah I also started thinking some things should be a certain price, hence never going to the cinema anymore. I'm getting more hesitant to buy new games and buy more second hand games or on sale instead. I don't have an issue paying CAD 90 (CAD 102 after tax) for Zelda, as I know I'll play it for 100+ hours, as well as my wife and kids, yet smaller games and games I'm not sure about get the wait and see approach.
Oh well, it's still the cheapest hobby by far in price per hour of fun. And I still have a way to go before reaching a balance between buying more games and finishing what I already have lol.
