Thread 712873507

>"Nobody will spend $50 for a video game, that's crazy"
>"Nobody will spend $60 for a video game, that's crazy"
>"Nobody will spend $70 for a video game, that's crazy"
>"Nobody will spend $80 for a video game, that's crazy"
>"Nobody will spend $90 for a video game, that's crazy" >>>[You Are Here]<<<

>>712873507 (OP)
i'm still at 60 though as a older zoomer

>>712873759
>success turns game devs into lacy incompetent schizo faggots
wow that explains why helldivers 2 went to shit then

>>712873759
Why does that faggot get chills when big corpos make less?

microtransactions and dlc have already eased people into not giving a shit about prices

>>712873507 (OP)
Don't care. Smart people don't pay more than $20 for a bunch of lights and colors on a screen.

>>712875505
>reddit island

I thought improvements in technology should make things more affordable?

The cost of making games is lower than ever all the money these corporations are spending is voluntary because they want to stand out from the smaller studios and indies with large production values.
It's all a choice on their part to spend this money to make a blockbuster.
Movies don't charge more for a blockbuster movie, they just expect to sell more tickets.
AAA devs should expect the same thing it's a gamble, not a guarantee.

>>712878003
>"SAAR DO NOT MAKE GAME EXPENSIVE SAAAAR"

>>712875691
>reddit post

>>712873759
the stagnation of graphics and gameplay has inevitably resulted in people realizing that [2015 game] offers basically the same experience as [2025 game], except it's $10 instead of $80.
if anyone is surprised by this they're a fucking retard.

>>712873507 (OP)
Dang, didn't realize we were still printing games on cartridges.

Wait, we're not? OP's just a faggot who doesn't account for lowered production costs? Dang, never would have guessed.

>>712873507 (OP)
>Inflation adjusted price went up for the first time since the 90's
>>712878153
Why did he do it bros?

>>712873507 (OP)
>"Nobody will spend 4000M credits for a video game, that's crazy"

>>712873507 (OP)
All I learned from this graph was that Bill Clinton was the best president of all of our lifetimes.

>>712875364
Yes but they still complain about it, even though I can clearly see on steam that they bought the game at an inflated price if they paid for the deluxe edition for 5-days of early access gaming.

>>712873507 (OP)
>$80 up front, you're crazy!
>$10/ month on some shitty skins? Sign me up!
People are retarded.

>>712878742
>Reddit reddit

>>712873507 (OP)
This list is bs because I swear there were cartridge games going for $100 back in the 80s and 90s

>>712873507 (OP)
The reality is people are starting to wake up to the fact that their country is destroyed and they are in fact now poor (Americans and Europeans) and it's scaring them, so they are lashing out and Nintendo. The games didn't get more expensive, your life became shittier.

>>712873507 (OP)
>mmmph gulp slurp i love the taste of corpo cock
like why do faggots act like this

>>712879385
It's an obtuse form of bdsm humiliation faggotry

>>712873507 (OP)
Games then:
>created using inhouse engines and cutting-edge technology
>came in cartridges with specialized chips and hardware necessary for each game
>distributed in small boxes with user manuals to thousands of stores worldwide
>lowered in price over time
Games now:
>developed effortlessly with mass market engines like Unity or Unreal
>reuse 90% of assets and outsource the rest to India and China
>copy-pasted infinitely and distributed digitally at virtually no cost
>"respect the value"

>>712875723
that was true UNTIL they realized you would pay for it anyway goy

>>712873507 (OP)
>It's a newfag that wasn't alive for it, thinks he can fool the people that were there with a fake graph on /v/
LMAO, classic.

I've bought like 3 games for 60$ in my entire life. Obviously I've never bought a 70$ or 80$ game. Of course I won't spend 90$+ dollars on a single game. This is just ridiculous for me.

>>712873507 (OP)
I'm already more or less done buying full price video games. Maybe a couple a year at most, but I'll mostly just keep an eye out for good sales.

>>712873507 (OP)
Literally all of those prices are incorrect, you'd know this if you weren't a year old.

>>712879190
There were, but they were exceptions, not the rule. Action 52, an NES game, cost $200 on launch.

>>712873507 (OP)
It's not choice. I just can not afford any games at that price. It's AUD119... IT'S FUCKING CRAZY.

Look at all thee zoomers and "Aplhas" sqzealing over high prices HAHAHAH

I remember N64 games costing 160 DEUTSCHE MARK
Thats 80 euros

In fucking 1998

>>712873507 (OP)
Did everyone forget that you could rent games?

>>712873887
>corpo bad

>>712875505
I came here just to post this image. Good on ya bud.

People pay $400+ for Kingdom Death Monster. The standard videogame price will be about $120 in the next decade.

>>712873507 (OP)
>Inflation adjusted price of vidya
Impressive, very nice. Let's see the average salary adjusted for inflation.

>>712885690
Yes but Kingdom Death is fucking gorgeous.

>>712878003
They actually do charge more for Disney movies. Or at least they did before covid btfo theatres and they had to start begging people to come

>>712873507 (OP)
>videogame market revenue in 1985
>14 billion
>videogame market revenue in 2025
>190 billion
If anything games should be cheaper now

>>712885073
it's called gamepass

>>712873507 (OP)
price of electronics has only crashed. why should games be more expensive?

>>712873507 (OP)
Games are cheaper to produce than ever.
>B- b- but muh gwaphiks
Game budgets are as bloated as they are because they are paying huge teams hundreds of thousands of dollars just to waste work and then paying consultants millions to oversee nothing getting done.
It doesn't take more than 3 years to make a game, which means that every game that goes over time budget is likely throwing away up to several game's worth of work just because of shit management, something which is further compounded with the fact that you don't need more than 30-60 people to make a game, which means that they are then throwing away even more work for each additional person on their thousand person team.
You think horse scrotum physics are being implemented because of how advanced graphics are? No, they're being implemented because people are being left alone without any direction, thus forcing them to create something inconsequential.
>>712885073
>Literal NPE rent-seeking
Did everyone forget that you can pirate games?

They're raising the prices in a race against less people buying the games and they can't actually win that, it's a downward spiral.

>>712873507 (OP)
These charts always conveniently ignore
1: The rising cost of living meaning people have less discretionary income even when inflation is accounted for.
and
2: The omnipresence of game rentals meant people could play games without paying anywhere close to full price.

>>712873507 (OP)
I don't care.
I'm not buying at that price.

>>712873507 (OP)
>>712873507 (OP)
I'm spending between 5 to 20.
To buy old games.
Mostly japanese or european games which have a 5-10 hours long range and lot of replayability. Death to western amerimutts. The last "modern" game I bought were armored core 6 and ace combat 7, I'm also interested in e.y.e. divine cybermancy 2 but other than that no modern sloppa holds my interest.
And now I'm starting zone of the enders.
That is all. Are you happy market analysts? Got any good data out of me faggots?

>>712873507 (OP)
*Tap tap*

>>712873507 (OP)
I remember when I thought Orange Box was too expensive lel

>>712885690
This is not a fair comparison as I actually get something worth my time with KDM. Try telling me with a straight face that Civilization 7 is legitimately a real $70 game.

>>712886758
>Make games with a smaller budget?
>No! It's the consumers who are too stingy!

I never bought Skyrim because it was one of the first PC titles to try to push the price from $50 to $60 (which console games were at the time). I think the only major title before Skyrim was Call of Duty or something. Anyway fuck Bethesda.

>>712873507 (OP)
>>"Nobody will spend $50 for a video game, that's crazy"
>>"Nobody will spend $60 for a video game, that's crazy"
>>"Nobody will spend $70 for a video game, that's crazy"
They were selling $65 videogames in the 90s and that isn't even considering imports and countries tariffing electronics specifically.

>>712887151
How the fuck can anyone think that? Well maybe you did if you already played half life 2 beforehand I guess.
>tfw didn't touch TF2 for months because I was intimidated with online games, turned out to be my favorite when I got to sit down and play it

>>712887295
They have huge ego problems and telling them to downscale and make cheaper products for less when they all imagined themselves as apple-style industry leaders is like taking a shit square on their desk.

>>712885172
Unironically yes.

>>712873887
Because it was literally written by a Fortune 500 company, read the disclaimer at the end of the article. Some opinion piece huh, this is”journalism” apparently

Everything over 40 bucks is pay to play early