Reality, Console Industry has become Stagnated.

[EricHiggin]

Soundwave said:

This is from the Capcom president from this past September:

“Personally, I feel that game prices are too low. Development costs are around 100 times higher than they were in the days of the Famicom (NES), but the price of software hasn't risen so much.”

And I doubt Capcom is even making the biggest budget games or close, they're probably still in the 80-120 million dollar range for their bigger titles, asking a company like Capcom to go to 300 million/game would probably cause their president's head to explode.

Good point.

If you take into account how much a movie costs to make, then to pay to watch, and that you get 2 maybe 3 hours out of it, and most people only watch it once, then comparing that to a cinematic game experience with 40,50,60hrs of playtime, even which is only played once by most people, is an absolute steal for $70.

I put like 200hrs into DS myself, and that was through Plus Extra at the time. The game wasn't new anymore, but in terms of value, I got way more out of it than PS did. DS isn't even that great of an example considering it was a new IP to begin with, and niche at that, and wasn't a massive seller compared to other AAA.