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> AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years SNES games were $50-60 and that was thirty years ago!
by oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
> AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years
SNES games were $50-60 and that was thirty years ago!
- bityard 4y agoPretty sure I paid $80 for some RPG or another (possibly Chrono Trigger) right after release back in the day.
- magila 4y agoRPGs were more expensive than other games due to a combination of high development cost, high cartridge cost (RPGs took a lot of ROM storage), and relatively small market (action games were more popular).
- smoldesu 4y agoFactored in with translation costs (or god forbid an included manual) and it's crazy these things even made it to the US in the first place. No wonder NES/SNES RPGs are in such short supply.
- code_duck 4y agoPhantasy Star for the Sega Master System was $70 - in 1988. Adjusted for inflation that’s about $180.