I remember when Canadian dollars were alot worst that our consoles were $100 more than US. Last gen we were on par but now Canada's sucking again and the PS4 is back up $50 more than the US.

I remember when I bought SF Alpha 2 for SNES for around $100, good times and still one of the best looking SNES game of all time.

So games prices got cheaper over the years. Go figure.

Partialy true. Catridges were very costly in comparison to discs.

"PlayStation CD-ROMs cost $1 to manufacture, while cartridges for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (the predecessor to the N64) cost $15."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_Game_Pak#Manufacturing_cost

The big shift is not just the starting price, but how quickly prices decrease.

In the SNES era a game was $50-60, and it stayed that way for years after release.

In the PS3 era I bought dozens of games a year after release for $10 or less.

Gaming is definitely cheaper now.

I find it funny that Nintendo felt the need to charge 60 bucks for their games. Explains a little why PS1 dominated the N64.

Most likely they had no choice since the cartridges were much more expensive to make than CD's. Now, I still understand your point because they allegedly charged 70 to 90 bucks for a game, while the PS1 games stayed at 40, sometimes 50 bucks.

i remember the first game i bought with my own money being dkc3 for the snes. i payed about 700 sek for it (roughly €70)! even before inflation adjustments that's about twice the amount i spend on a game on average today! of course, back then, dkc3 was brand new and today i usually wait for a price drop and look up cheap offers online. but still... i'd say games were more expensive then, consoles more expensive now.

$60 is expansive, especially if you live outside of the "market zone" (US, Canada, Some countries of Europe and Asia/Oceania). Yeah, in the past the games were more expansive, but this isn't a excuse to say that today games are cheap. No wonder piracy was rampant between 3rd~7th gen (especially in 6th gen), in some countries the price of a game was near of minimum wage.

Well, at least you people don't live in Brazil. One of worst countries to buy games, because of the huge taxes (and some dirty tricks, like what Sony did with the price of PS4 here) and much less earnings, comparing with with the US.

Oh, right, PC games were usually 70-90 DM in the late 90's/early 2000's. I never saw one for over 100 DM, maybe early CD-ROM games or special editions.

A friend bought Conker's Bad Fur Day for 179 at a Drogerie Müller, it was the only store with video games in our small city.

Nintendo still does this most of the time and why owning a Nintendo console is often more expensive than a Sony one after you add up game catalog costs.