i paidmore for snes and n64 games (except n64 games from nintendo) than i have to pay nowadays. don't know what i paid for nes games but as example i had to pay 169DM for nagano winter olypmpics which was a bad game^^ 169DM is ~85€

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=112729&page=1

Doesn't answer the question but it was a good thread.

blame the format, cartrige were really expensive

yeah sure but still, thinking about all the costs nowadays for gaming studios, the costs did explode compared to the snes time. and blu-ray as example was super expensive as well the first years.

abzocke!

That is true.  But when you look at the tech that we get, the level of voice acting, production values, etc, I still think we have it pretty sweet.  Some games (I'm looking at you, Capcom!) don't seem to be complete right out of the box, but I'd say 90% of them--hell, maybe even 98% of them--are complete experiences.  Of the games that do offer DLC, I'd say the vast majority of them offer something that adds to the experience or isn't something vital.

Companies are doing a lot to recoup their money, though.  More than anything, they're trying to get us to buy new instead of used.  Pre-order DLC, online passes, etc. come to mind. 

well this is were dlc come in to maximize the profit, you also get the rerelease like capcom like to do so much and the yearly release that doesn't improve much from previous iterations the majors studios have found a bunch of ways the lower the cost and maximize their profits and those that didn't went out of business but I still expect a price hike for next gen tho

well at the beginning of this gen most games were released at around 50$ but now they often cost 60$ here in Canada anyway and I think 70$ for a standard new release next gen will be the average entry price

If games do go to $70, I think I'll stop gaming.  The reason I buy now is that it's been burned into my head since childhood that $50 is the magic number.  When I saw PS1 games for $39, I lost my mind because, in my head, it felt like they were almost half the price.  I still buy games at $59 because I can fool myself into thinking that it's still in the fifties.  The second the MSRP goes up to $60.01, I'm done.

Oh, and I don't know about Canada but hear in the U.S., HD games were almost always $59.99.  They even tested the waters during the sixth gen with all of these special editions just to see if consumers would be willing to pay $59 (and we did) for games like Halo and stuff. 

Even if games do go up in price, I think we got off pretty lucky.  Gas costs four times as much as it did when I was a kid but it's still the same gas.  Beef costs twice as much but it's still the same beef.  Clothes, food, houses, etc--all went up severely in price.  If I wanted to dig deeper, I bet I could trace the high prices of everything to higher oil prices....but I won't.  Anyway, the games we get are much better  than they were but the price isn't much more than it used to be.  The quality of the content is debateable but the tech is much more advanced.  To be honest, I don't know where I'm going with this.  Hard to focus with my family calling me every 20 seconds.

I never buy full price games anyway, wait a few months to a year and it'll be half the price or even more. There are so many out there even on the $19.99 shelve that are great games I still haven't played.