I seem to remember a conversation that brick stores that sold consoles would stop selling consoles if digital games didn't match the price of their physical counterparts. There are so many reasons a game should not be $70. Look at how fast they devalue. A.I. is also making development cheaper. creating unique 3D environments in minutes, versus a human taking hours or days to do the same thing.

Setting a precedent that $70 dollar games are ok is just going to open up the door for $80 next generation.

Also, thanks for putting your dollar sign in front of the number. I can't tell you how much seeing it the wrong way makes my hair stand up.

Many thanks, that is a really nice post. I wish more people would understand the concept of inflation adjusted prices. Now if you want heads exploding try to do the same for full price games and comparing it to the snes era.

For me, I've stopped buying games full price at launch for about 3-4 years unless it's something I must have, like GOW or GoT.

Is difficult to do at the start of a generation when they're are less games out there, but a few years in you should be fine.

The second thing is sales have been amazing on storefronts for both Sony and MS, along with GWG & PS+.

Lastly, my taste in games has changed and I've ended up playing more games that consume hours in their SP or that are content rich. I've sunk 100+ hrs into p5, 70+hrs into Ys8, 400+hrs into MHW, I'm about 35+hrs into Nioh2....

When it comes to buying games this gen, it just means that I'll be more selective on what I spend me £60-70 and instead of buying 2 games at £50, I'm probably buy one at £60 and wait for the other to drop in price.

If a lot of people do this, I wonder how the industry will react. Even this gen, a lot of games didn't come out at a full £55-60, done eye released at £45-50. I can see this be the case a year or so in.

Depends.

If the console itself is too expensive, I won't be buying games because I won't be buying the console to play them on. If that means the console needs to be subsidized, and that subsidy is (partially) paid off through a reasonable increase to game prices, then that makes sense to me. Those games also have to live up to their price however.