You say that the prices are unfair, but the reality is they're not. People are totally ok with paying those quantities, myself included. We should reconsider that, tbh, since it's getting out of hand. 76 dollars (tax included) plus any later DLC or expansion is a lot, didn't notice it until now. 

Actually you replied to me and then changed the subject.  I'm just trying to get back to what I was originally talking about.

I would happily pay more for a quality game, if the game wasn't already raising the price in other ways: DLC, season passes, microtransactions. Games are fro a long time much more expensive than 70$. And it is highly ironic that we discuss this price hike for a game, that actually costs already much more and will continue to do so in the future. Look, you already can preorder NBA2K21 Legend Edition for 100$ and it is shock-full of microtransactions. So 60$ is already only a base price barely anyone is paying.

See Jim Sterling about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSso2vufPM

As someone who rarely buys new games now because of the price, I just see that personal trend continuing. Games are already $69.99/$79.99 here in Canada and this just means we jump to $79.99/89.99. After tax, we're looking at over $100 per title. The list of games that are worth that, in my eyes, is very small.

Example from Amazon:

No problem for me, I wait for the games to be worth 50€

Yep, the upcoming Paper Mario is also listed at 79.99.
I hope it will 'only' go up to 89.99 next gen, however $70 translates to CAD 95 nowadays :/

I've been buying far fewer new games this gen as well. Start of this gen games were still CAD 54.99 or 59.99

Digital gets more enticing since you don't get the tax on top (for now) (Except in Quebec)
With 13% sales tax on physical games the difference keeps increasing. Next gen a physical game will be over $12 more.

https://www.cpacanada.ca/en/news/canada/2018-09-13-tax-on-digital-services
Under the current tax rules—which allow foreign companies, like those mentioned, to avoid paying sales tax because they don’t have a physical presence in Canada—the onus is on the consumer to pay. That means we should keep track of what we spend, reach out to the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), and pay the tax we owe.

Sure, I'll get right on that. 

All the companies known for lootboxes will surely try to push this as the shadow of lootbox regulations looms over their heads and they need to keep making more profit to keep shareholders happy.

Video games have costed roughly the same since like the 90s, so really it is not that bad that they went up slightly with inflation. I don't like it but it is an unavoidable reality. 60$ in the 90s is worth more than 70$ in 2020

I will also say that I have already seen some 70€ games here in Europe several years ago. They were not common and if you looked for other retailers you could usually find them at the more usual 60€, but they existed

Of course, here is where I also mention that the 60/70€ price is including taxes, which I don't think is the case with US pricings? (then again 1€ is like 1.1 USD so it balances out I suppose)

Well im not sure how old you are so not sure if you remembered when some SNES games were +$100 CAD, and that was like during mid 90s, which would be around $150 CAD now with inflation.  So paying $100 a game again wouldn't be surprising.  But it still sucks big times.

Canadians had it good last gen (PS3/360) as our dollar was better and our systems/games were the same price amount as the US.

I was living in the Netherlands at the time and I remember Nintendo cartridges being sold for up to 250 guilders at Fame on the Dam square (1998) The shop is gone now, there is a bank in its place. I used to get my Laserdiscs there at 80 to 90 guilders a piece. The guilder (doesn't exist anymore either) was worth about $0.52, so around $45 for a Laserdisc and up to $130 for (imported) Nintendo games.

I spend close to a 1,000 guilders a month at that store in movies and games.

No wonder they went bankrupt after I left the country :)