>games are $80 in 2025
What will it be like in 10 years?

Always free for me.

$20
when the industry crashes-out after noone pays that stupid price

>>713148090
inb4 someone posts the inflation adjustment completely missing the point

Anything priced higher than $20 is unironically not worth it.
The most expensive game I bought in the past 5 years was Starsector at $15, and that was after having played a pirated copy for 30 hours.

>>713148229
Have fun never playing nintendo games then.

>>713147567 (OP)
lion

>>713148149
It doesn't matter,really.
Anyone that actually lived in that era knows that games were basically on steam sale prices all the time. PC games in particular got price slashed real quick like, sometimes even on release day.

>>713147567 (OP)
$120
>Gen 10 Pokemon will test $90 games
>GTA 6 will test $100 games
They won't push it too much after that because getting into the three digits and we aren't even factoring in Delxue Editions and Day 1 Editions and Legendary Cock Sucker editions and what not, is absurd.

>>713148149
what's the point?

>>713148370
I'll just pirate the games lol

>>713148690
Oh, and now that I remember, coupons!
There were coupons everywhere, so you'd get anywhere from 5.99 to 9.99 off, on top of the already slashed price, so you could get 'em even cheaper, lol.

>>713147567 (OP)
Neo-feudalism will be in full effect; almost no one will have any money except the wealthiest of the wealthy, they'll own everything.
At that point luxury items, indeed almost everything that isn't purely subsistence, will be made to cater to the extremely small number of rich families.
Games as you know them, indeed leisure in general, will cease to exist from the public consciousness except as something for the elusive, rarely seen idle rich.

>>713147567 (OP)
Hopefully people stop being stupid consoomers and realize they're broke and should stop buying entertainment that's constantly going up in price, but nah, wont happen.
Calling it now, GTA6 comes out for $100 and sells gangbusters and now everyone but Nintendo defaults to $100 per game, which then paints Nintendo as the good guys selling their games for cheaper.

Seriously, if you want evidence that people are NPCs, look at how people react to that shit, they'll be broke as hell, surviving paycheck to paycheck, and they'll still be subbed to like 6 streaming services, a cable TV package, some heavily-upsold internet package that makes their Facebook browsing super fast, carrying around a $1000 phone they got for ""free"" via phone contract, and they buy the Switch 2 on day one like it was something they HAD to do, like not having an S2 makes them less of a person.

>>713148370
I don't think that's the big "gotcha" that you think it is. I haven't bought a Nintendo game since the Gamecube era.

>>713149152
>Seriously, if you want evidence that people are NPCs, look at how people react to that shit, they'll be broke as hell, surviving paycheck to paycheck, and they'll still be subbed to like 6 streaming services, a cable TV package, some heavily-upsold internet package that makes their Facebook browsing super fast
This.
Yesterday i saw a retarded youtuber who was complaining about ads on youtube on his video.. then at the very end he says "well im sure you're gonna hate me for saying this but i subbed to youtube premium anyway. WHY? well because i wanted to see 1080p videos in full bitrate ok??"
People are such retarded cattle it's unreal

>>713147567 (OP)
A subscription fee.

>What will it be like in 10 years?
I don't plan to keep playing games or browsing this place 10 years from now.

>>713149669
>or browsing this place 10 years from now
dont forget

>>713148690
That's the fun part, like, cartridges were expensive as hell to make and came with a bunch of economical and logistical issues that were later fixed by CDs and DVDs and so on.
People these days just look at the numbers like "1/3 is smaller than 1/4 because number smaller lol" except in this case it's pricing and value.
Like, half the reason the games back then were more expensive (adjusting for inflation) is because there was simply more shit, each cartridge had all those electrical components in there, it wasn't just some data off the internet or a $0.002 reflective disc, there were chips and backup batteries and RAM and sometimes an entire-ass GPU on the game cart for games like Street Race FX or whatever.
If you couldn't afford games, you'd just rent them, or you'd trade in two games to get the money to buy one new one because the trade-in values back then weren't complete shit.

>>713148370
oh no... anyway

>>713149669
>he think he will leave
>he thinks he can leave

>>713147567 (OP)
The industry will be dead by then. Thank god for that. I wouldn’t be too surprised if we had a major crash in three years.

>>713149432
I know the vid you're talking about. It started well but then he went full retard. I blocked the channel right after.

>>713149432
>People are such retarded cattle it's unreal
And it's only getting worse with the no-effort AI prompts being pushed out in mass by no-talent Indians to the point where AI is training itself on the bad AI being shoveled out.
People are celebrating the fact that AI can (will) eventually reach a state where these sheep won't have to make a single decision. Yeah man, let the goverment and rich elite decide hwo you live your life (because that's who will own the AI). They've always had the common folk's best interest at heart!

>>713149971

>>713149815
>Pic
If she's down, I'm down!

>>713147567 (OP)
>I never bought a game for 20 bucks
>I never bought a game for 30 bucks
>I never bought a game for 40 bucks
>I never bought a game for 50 bucks
>I never bought a game for 60 bucks
>I never bought a game for 70 bucks
>I never bought a game for 80 bucks
In 10 years the list will be a bit bigger.

>>713147567 (OP)
$0, no one will be buying them anymore.

>>713150075
Based anon taking no BS from any jewtuber

>>713147567 (OP)
Pirate anything you can get away with not having the online elements of.

>>713148370
Just wait for the emulator if i wanted to play a nintendo game

>>713149971

>>713147567 (OP)
who cares everything will be expensive because of the falling birthrates, you won't have a pension either

I'm not gonna be that guy who
>builds $2500 PC
>too poor to buy games

>>713147567 (OP)
>games go up to $70
>retards defend it with umm akshually video games have been $60 for a long time so it's ok
>games immediately go up to $80/$90
retards gave publishers an inch and now they're taking a mile

>>713150397
$2500 is not as impressive as you think it is. Also, why would I pay for something that I can get for free? My country doesn't give a fuck about piracy in practice. I'm yet to be caught or hear about someone getting in trouble for file transfer.

>>713147567 (OP)
Doesn't matter. Its not worth paying 80 dollars for modern slop. Just don't buy it and move on

>>713150397
actually i will be that guy: the pc is used for other things too. I just do not want to pay for games. I do not like the devs. Even on the Steam Deck I am pirating Skyrim, even if this is my 4th playthrough, all of which were pirated on different devices.

>>713150574
2500 is a lot of money to normal people.
Also, what if you want to play something online?

>>713147567 (OP)
>What will it be like in 10 years?

All goy cattle will be enslaved and tortured.

>>713150081
I hear you anon 100%, i hate AI like you wouldnt fucking believe.
We are witnessing the end of society as we know it (we're in the early stages) and no one seems to care. But you bet your ass they will all care very soon once 90% of adults is jobless

>>713150506
>games go up to $80
Erm, it's only $20 more.
>games go up to $100
Erm, it's only $20 more.
>games go up to $120
Erm, it's only $20 more.
>etc.

>>713150672
>>713150574
>GIB ME DATS FO FREE
More proof that /v/ is spiritually black.

>>713150397
you would probably buy the fish from the jews

>>713149669
>i wont be here in 10 years
famous last wo- oh wait! cant wait to see you in 20! cheers

>>713150878
nice try kike

>>713150801
>Also, what if you want to play something online?
If I do I will buy it, but usually I don't. My backlog is big enough to last for like 10 years with no internet, assuming I'd just go full NEET and play SP games for the entire day only with breaks for sleep. And the games I do play online are mostly F2P.
This really isn't an issue for me.

>>713148370
Adults who still play Nintendo games should be gassed, as they are pedophiles. This includes you. Faggot.

>>713150801
>Also, what if you want to play something online?
I don't and I won't.

>>713147567 (OP)
>What will it be like in 10 years?
Over, hopefully.

>>713151121
better deepthroat that 12 gauge then

>gta6 is about to normalize $100 base games

>>713151521
As much as I'm expecting the attempts I don't think it's gonna go as easy as non-Rockstar devs would want. GTA6 will be massive, people will get autistic about it. Release a game of similar or bigger size and quality or see how they laugh at you and suits kill themselves over the red line going down.

>>713147567 (OP)
It will stay same unless economy goes to shit even more and inflation grows bigger. Games costing 70-80 dollars was a common thing in 80s and early 90s until PS1 was released, and broke the market. It was only because of PS1 release that games became cheap due to how cheaply company can mass print discs compared to cartridges that were expensive to make.
PC market is another story because PC gaming was extremely niche and barely anyone played or cared about games on PC besides like 5 out of 10000 nerds because having a personal computer was considered luxury or enthusiast tier item until 2000s.

>>713148370
Thanks, I think I will

>>713151652
>PC gaming was extremely niche
Are you serious? The 90's were the golden age for PC.

>>713147567 (OP)
>What will it be like in 10 years?

There will be no games. Only AI drone swarms.

>he thinks society will last 10 more years
lol

>>713150506
Most people are brain dead goycattle and deserve to be milked for every last penny they have, I honestly see why ruling class jews do it.

>>713154435
Except it wasn't. Remove those pink tinted glasses and face reality. 90s were very innovative, yes, but far from gold status. They were more like industrial revolution, when started changing for better or worse.
Hardware back in 90s was pretty expensive and would get outdated quite fast because of fast the tech was improving at the time. Lots of people even called 90s PC market a GHz/MHz war. Late 90s and 2000s also was time when PC gaming was seen as dead end and was financially unsustainable, most studios focused primarily on consoles because they brought most money while PC versions of the games were seen as not very important. Meanwhile PC as platform, until mid-to-late 2000s was seen as something of a luxury or something that only sweaty nerds were obsessed with.

>>713147567 (OP)
Remakes of the $80 games, possibly the third iteration by then.

>2005
$0
>2015
$0
>2025
$0
>2035
$0

>>713154812
You must be American then... pretty much every household in Europe had a PC capable of playing most games. It wasn't a luxury...
>GHz/MHz war
lol wut

>>713147567 (OP)
kitty

>>713155040
>lol wut
PC tech was progressing very quickly and competition in hardware/software manufacturing was fierce. You bought a PC from store,iIt got outdated 1 or 2 years later, so you have to buy new one because it's better. Then your new computer gets outdated, too, and so on. The cycled repeated, and you had to waste lots of money on tech that would get old fast. This advancement lasted all the way to early 2000s and kinda stopped around mid 2000s.

>>713147567 (OP)
For me? 0$

>>713148090

>>713155237
You could still play most games on outdated PCs. Games were much better optimized back then.

>>713156003
>better optimized back then
You're fucking joking, right? There were tons of shovelware so it would be a gamble whether game works or not. Lots of developers didn't care and it was a miracle if game would launch in first place. Lots of games would run like complete garbage on less than 20FPS. The ones that were playable and were preserved by communities and some devs are now remembered and glorified while the rest got memoryholed.

You’ll own nothing
And pay for everything

>>713147567 (OP)
>make shitty, zero depth gameplay, low effort UE5 slop game
>69.99

Vidya is dead.

In 10 years western civilization will have utterly buckled and collapsed. The social experiment failed. Asia will probably be the economic center of the world for a few decades. Ethnic Europeans will go utterly extinct or rev up a genocide to save themselves that will make Hitler and Stalin combined look like fairies, either way the future is bleak.

>>713147567 (OP)
Depends on the inflation.

>>713149815
>retarded filter
why are whores doing this shit now?

>>713148024
not Nintendo. not anymore

>>713149669
If you didn't take the golden opportunity afforded to you when this website was down for weeks after the hack to ditch it forever, you're never leaving alive.

>>713156372
lol retard, everything you said is wrong

>>713147567 (OP)
Expect it to be 100 bucks soon. And only 30% of the game will be available and the rest will be locked behind a 7 part dlc with each part being 30 bucks. And retards will happily keep their head in that overpriced slop bucket regardless because this type of shit is just normalized.

>>713157120
2 more weeks?

>not having disposable income
Thirdies revealing themselves en mass ITT. Sad!

>>713158239
Cut the larp, you fucking hipster. 90s PC gaming wasn't as glorious as you make it out to be.

>>713147567 (OP)
$80 per month subscription, cloud-only games. no physical or licenses of any kind. VPNs, piracy sites/tracker services, and torrents b& 10 years earlier under heavy lobbying from the tech industry. you're playing on windows 20 or something which makes you log in with your real name and social media information. always online. nobody speaks english.

>>713148370
Oh no! Not the Tendie games!!

>>713147567 (OP)
Why, $80 a year of course.

>>713147567 (OP)
>starfield.mp4

>>713155040
The GHz/MHz war thing he's talking about is how there was that time when every CPU out there was clocked entirely on the raw clock speed of the processor and that's it, nothing else, it was a lot like with car bros bragging about horsepower when their car gets 0.2 MPG and can't turn very well.
Later on this evolved into "core wars" where it was all about the number of virtual/physical cores the chip had when they realized CPU clock speed had a limit imposed by actual physics.
Side note: I'm American and born in the late 80s; we were a little late to the PC party, but around the time Windows 95 hit, that's when just about everyone had a PC.

>>713154812
It was pretty expensive but you could get PCs secondhand for cheap because the tech evolved too fast (and those asshole companies kept changing socket shapes) and people had to dump stock all the time, or you'd get some deep discount on a PC by buying a sub to some dial-up service, or you'd get a hand-me-down from an uncle or something.
Plus games went on sale like mad, like I remember getting two copies of Baldur's Gate 1 and the Morrowind GOTY edition, both premier games being like $5 each and I bought them with my own allowance without much though.
PC didn't "die" until laptops became powerful enough to be viable for daily shit, and even then the finishing blow wasn't until Apple shit all over the market and blew everyone out of the water with the iPhone, causing everyone to make a mad dash to make/use smartphones for everything instead of PCs/laptops. (t. computer technician)
Bonus points: back then you didn't have nearly as much time-gated compatibility, so I spent a lot of time playing DOS games on floppies up until they finally gut DOS compatibility out in... Vista, I think. Saves a ton of money when you can buy secondahand games well after their release.

>>713159559
>until they finally gut DOS compatibility out in... Vista, I think.
2000/XP was the first big shift away from DOS compatibility since the underlying system was full 32-bit NT instead of the 16/32-bit hybrid that 9x/Me was. A handful of DOS games might've functioned but for the most part they'd either have issues or not work properly at all.
Vista 64 did remove the ability to run 16-bit executables altogether though you're right there. I'd imagine XP 64 did the same thing but nobody sane used that.

I will have masturbated myself to death using AI porn before 10 years have passed.

We'll probably be shifting to paid subscriptions for every developer. You don't buy games anymore. You subscript to a company channel as it were and it'd pay monthly for the package of developers games you want to play. No more owning games. You pay to tune in to the next new game or update you want to play that month.

>>713158494
Keep bending over for your overlords there’s no fuck reason to buy new games if the dev aren’t gonna take a risk.

>>713159979
Just an interesting note that a guy has made a way to get 16 bit games running. I can't remember what it's called but I used it to play some old Magic School Bus games a year or so ago.

>>713147567 (OP)
The good thing is that no game made after 2016 is good

>>713160734
>t. wagelet

I can't wait for the future where everything good in the world has been destroyed and everyone is tortured for Lord Moloch's amusement.

Evil will finally WIN.

>What will it be like in 10 years?
Retardedly expensive, that much is certain.

>>713160906
It will be illegal for goyim to possess money. All goyim will be required by law to surrender every last cent at the nearest synagogue or be tortured to death. Actually they're going to be tortured anyway. Infinite torture. Infinite suffering. Infinite pain. It's going to be so beautiful. Lord Moloch will laugh as the world is corrupted beyond repair and He devours everyone. Hee hee hee hee heeeeeeee.

>The /pol/fag has started schizoposting

>>713158375
>play modern Pokemon game
>costs around $60 before taxes
>game feels unfinished and rough, way rougher than previous gens and a lot of fun stuff has been cut or replaced with something worse
>Pokemon AND moves cut, including gameplay mechanics like the affection stat and dungeon exploring as a whole
>DLC comes out, costs about $30 in total before taxes
>DLC feels unfinished and rushed too, doesn't even bring back all the cut stuff people hoped for
>both Switch gens and their DLCs are full of "wait that's it?" moments where you see something cool and realize it's a short hallway or just a room, or the thing you saw on the map is just a placeholder and you can't actually go there
>also now you have to sub to Home to store/transfer much of anything
>and play Pokemon Go to get Meltan/Melmetal (or vice versa, you actually have to own Pokemon SV to unlock some Pokemon in Go, which is total bullshit)
>no postgame content
>no side content despite the big open world
>a lot of online-only features, even one Pokemon that only evolves when you're playing multiplayer, so you need an NSO membership too

All this compared to the old way:
>spend $30-40 for base game
>no DLCs unless you include event Pokemon like taking your GBA to a Gamestop and getting a Deoxys for free or unlocking some islands to explore
>can skip base games and just buy the third version if you're smart/cheap
>or you can trade in your old one for the new one for cheap since Pokemon games have a high resale value
>or you can sometimes ignore the third version because they honestly don't change THAT much in most gens
>postgame content
>usually some tacked-on side content like the Game Corner, Pokeblock cooking, or Contests

I just got my first PC ($210 USD) so that I can begin the process of "accessing games for free." Done with the price tag when I can "access them" for free.

>>713148370
Pffffffftttt nta but I'm 45, this is not the flex/burn/point/whatever the fuck you think it is.

>>713161061
Ghee hee hee. Hahaha. Hee hee. Me like squishing ants and making them die. Everyone is ants. Hee hee.

>>713150256
How do you pay for food and shelter without a job?

>>713162017
Your taxes pay for it

>>713149669
>or browsing this place 10 years from now.

>>713148370
Oh no!

>>713147567 (OP)
Games were already significantly more expensive prior to this due to content packs, MTX and any number of other monetization methods stapled onto every game.

>>713149152
You're so close.
They're not living paycheck to paycheck, they just think they are.

>>713147567 (OP)
Nobody will buy 7/10 games for 80 bucks, so either games drastically reduce in scale in order to remain 60, the AAA industry crashes, or everything but Nintendo moves to a subscription based model. Nintendo will simply charge 120 for the mario kart world deluxe edition.

>>713149815
I noticed something was wrong as soon as I saw her hands.

>>713148370
>no bing bing woo hoo games
oh the horror

>>713150160
anon

>>713162080
Nice flex, nigger.

>>713148816
Never pay more than 20 bucks for a game.

>>713147567 (OP)
Game prices will be set by duration and minimum wage.
20$/h wages mean 20$/h games.
It will either cause all games to be padded, or people will stop paying for shit.

Why does everyone want to pinpoint the prices on Nintendo when the world economy is currently going to shit with all that's happening + other consoles having equally expensive prices?

>>713148370
I can emulate most of them on my PC without paying a cent. Even then, it's less than half of games that are even worth playing.
Keep coping, tendie.