http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_costs http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_costs - That suggests that game dev costs have nearly tripled over the l

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_costs http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_costs - That suggests that game dev costs have nearly tripled over the last ten years. I also think the same timeframe saw the cost of a game go from ~20 to ~60. Admittedly I always bought games a fair bit of time after they got released, so my recollection on game costs might be biased / incorrect. Also - cost of devkits has in fact gone down. Suggested by the page that I linked to, and I know for a fact otherwise. At least the PS3 devkit and the Nintendo DS devkit are very reasonably priced.