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> raising game prices is pure fleecing My curiosity is that there's some normalized change in game pricing, but it's really dependent on both inflation and inc
by ethbr0 4y ago
> raising game prices is pure fleecing
My curiosity is that there's some normalized change in game pricing, but it's really dependent on both inflation and increased size of gaming market.
Since unit costs are so low for digital goods, if you have +5% inflation over a period and +15% gamers, the price of AAA games technically should have gone down to maintain profits. (Assuming you hold development costs static, which isn't true but simplifies the problem)
I'm not sure what that inflation-TAM number would be. Maybe games are getting "more profitable" (at the same price point), maybe less.