| sc94597 said: I am not too interested in GTA6. Usually get GTA games much later after their prices have dropped significantly. But would be fine paying $100 per high-budget (AAA) game, if and only if micro-transactions are heavily limited/non-existent and expansion packs/DLC are free unless it is a major enough expansion to be a game in its own right (think Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country) and said expansion is sold at a proportional price based on content vs. main game. A lot of the bad trends in the gaming industry are exacerbated by the fact that game prices have been somewhat declining over the last few decades when accounting for inflation.
$60 in January 2020 is about $73.40 in December 2024. The end of that year we saw AAA game prices jump to $70. So games are slightly cheaper now than in the beginning of 2020. $100 would put us about where games cost in the early 90's. $80 seems more realistic of a price than $100 given that cartridges were more expensive than discs/downloads, but I wouldn't mind $90 or $100 if the conditions earlier in my post were met. |
Graph isn't fully accurate, they don't have to pay for manufacturing and distribution anymore with Discs or carts, plus they are way cheaper if they do mostly and the majority is digital, that offsets a lot and social media marketing is so much cheaper now. They could raise physical prices but raising digital prices would be heinous.
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