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Why are video games so expensive these days?

• hsnewman 4y ago
  greed
  • pelagicAustral 4y ago
    The guy is actually making the opposite argument. Adjusted for inflation, games are cheaper now than on previous generations... Although, just like him, I was a bit shocked a few weeks back when I purchased a Switch and went to buy Zelda:BotW and noticed the £60 price tag... maybe I'm just a cheap bastard.
• maxHamilton12 4y ago
  a lot of games have had prices stay flat like the NBA 2k games
• darthrupert 4y ago
  Like the article says: they're not. If you count in inflation, they're significantly cheaper than in the 90s.
• oidar 4y ago
  Because your wages haven't kept up with prices.
• karmakaze 4y ago
  Because mobile games are free or $1.49 and there's a lot of free-to-start-playing PC games. What makes games expensive for me is how few I buy per platform so the price of the platform doesn't really get shared across many titles. Now considering a VR setup which is an entirely new gaming PC setup and will likely not have more than a handful of titles I'll play on it before I upgrade/replace it with whichever platform becomes dominant for VR.