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You don't need any of this. I paid $70 for Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES in the 1990s. The average AAA PS4 game is 59.99 in 2018. Games are one of the few things
by Noos 9y ago
You don't need any of this. I paid $70 for Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES in the 1990s. The average AAA PS4 game is 59.99 in 2018. Games are one of the few things that not only have not matched inflation, they've gone down despite the sheer amount of people needing to work on them going up.
- falcolas 9y agoIt's worth noting that the number of people who purchase games has far outstripped the losses due to inflation by several orders of magnitude.
- Raph_Koster 9y agoThis is the key thing. Basically, these curves have been sustainable because of the growth of the total addressable market. But that can't grow exponentially forever.
- wink 9y agoAnecdata - but I'd say in the SNES there was hardly a game that only provided 10h of linear game play, whereas that's quite a possibility nowadays. (More on PC probably, but I don't think all PS2/3/4 games are created equally). So maybe people wouldn't even buy it at 130$ (first google hit for converting buying power 1990 -> 2018)