"The price difference between desktop apps and tablet/mobile apps does not make any sense, but everybody pretends it does. It’s one of the minor mysteries of th

"The price difference between desktop apps and tablet/mobile apps does not make any sense, but everybody pretends it does. It’s one of the minor mysteries of the mobile world(...)" The barrier to entry in the mobile dev world is definitely lower than on PC/Console. Simply put, when you buy a PC game you can expect AAA content which necessitates vast amounts of resources (game studios?). Of course there are exceptions to the previous statement. But the memory and CPU constraints of a mobile platform simply cannot compete with what is available on PC. Its a simple equation, if you need more resources to crank out a product, its also is going to cost more.