The price of games is intentionally inflated. An IMAX ticket for many new releases is also a magnitude more expensive than seeing it at matinee or through renta

The price of games is intentionally inflated. An IMAX ticket for many new releases is also a magnitude more expensive than seeing it at matinee or through rental or even cheaper when its on TV or Netflix later on. Most games go on Steam sale for $5 within 3 years of release. And even that is honestly still really inflated (after all, the real per unit cost of a game is $0, so its all pure profit anyway since people are willing to give away the game for free on torrent sites) but mobile demonstrates the real price floor for video games - the microtransaction whale market where you have to give it away for free and hope you have 1/100 customers actually pay money is fairly "real" in terms of pricing. Even for paid mobile games, if they have a PC port, it will be a third or less the price on Google Play than it was on Steam, not because of development costs but because the Steam userbase "expects" $15 purchases while mobile users won't pay more than $5.