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GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 (80.lv)

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[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s surprising that games are getting cheaper compared to the cost of living. If you take into consideration the fact that games are becoming more expensive to produce, I really don’t understand it.

Gaming is way cheaper for me than it was during the ps2 or ps3 era.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

We still have a ways to go before reaching the inflation-adjusted, $150-per-game peak of mass market games in the 1990's. A key difference is games back then had way higher marginal cost (it's near zero now).

The interesting thing is that the market is becoming a lot more like it was back then, full of people that only buy one or two games a year and only play those. Of course now, the model is retaining players with DLC and MTX, whereas in 1995 it was more because people could only afford one or two games a year.