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Originally Posted by RacinReaver
Am I the only person that's amazed how low game prices have stayed when everything else's price has gone up due to inflation? I remember shelling out $70 for SNES games more than 10 years ago, yet I can pick up a game like San Andreas which certainly cost much much more to create than, say, Harvest Moon, for $20 less (not to mention that the $70 of yesteryear is worth more than $70 today).
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Ok,
NO!. I hate it when people say this. Just because prices were incredibly shitty in the past, it doesn't justify shitty pricing for today, and it certainly doesn't make a craptacular $70 pricepoint the average standard for this gen or the next.
You can't just factor in inflation when looking at pricing in the past and suggest that, in comparison, an increase in prices now wouldn't be so bad. That'd be inacurate. What about other circumstances that warrent cheaper prices for games now that weren't the case back then? Circumstances like today's much, much larger and actually mainstream market for gaming.
To make an accurate comparison would be quiet a task since there's so much to take into consideration. It doesn't really matter though, cause the bottom line is that regardless of what it was like in the past, any pricepoint above $60 per game (which is already pushing it) is just ridiculous.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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