Thread 715433603

Vidya in 90s were $60. How much exactly should vidya today cost if we adjust inflation?

$20 due to digital distribution

>>715433603 (OP)
About tree fiddy.

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So I should spend money as soon as I get it because saving is impossible when purchasing power halves every year?

Why would you ask for something so stupid? You know you can just look it up and see for yourself what the inflation rate is, right? With a 10 second google search?

This is what happens when you fucking spoonfeed people.

can you really get paid $21/hour to suck dicks?

$60.
The gaming market is much larger and the tools to create games are much better. Budgets are overinflated because the big corps don't know how to operate efficiently.

>>715433603 (OP)
OP is one of those people that asks @Grok is this true? In every goddamn post. I can't believe ai chat bots have made a generation retarded.

>>715433603 (OP)
>Vidya in 90s were $60. How much exactly should vidya today cost if we adjust inflation?

60 USD in the 90's, adjusting for inflation, would be the equivalent of 141 USD in today's money.

>>715433603 (OP)
Stop spending hundreds of millions on adverts nobody sees and budgets won't be so large.

>>715433603 (OP)
So let's account for the inflation of filesize while we are at it and judge its value by $ per mb. I believe you'll come to find that games are fucking worthless nowadays regardless of inflation. They are bloated with dumb shit on one asked for or even likes. Quite frankly they should be paying me as their focus group for what products fucking suck and what products are worth my time.

>>715433603 (OP)
10$ if they kept doing them like they did back in the day, specially with how easy it is for anyone to make a game nowadays
not my problem they decided to bloat dev teams with people that dont work and as such a game even releasing nowadays is a coinflip. and if it somehow does, it takes 7 years to develop and is less memorable than anything in this picture that took a fraction of time and money to produce

>>715433603 (OP)
>How much exactly should vidya today cost if we adjust inflation?
This is an incomplete question. Pricing involves a ton of decisions. There is no "standard price" for vidya and there never was. Back then 60 dollars was also a culmination of decisions to price it there. You can't just take the price at one time, add onto it, and call that a new standard price. The standard price is an equilibrium established between the buyer and seller. Well actually you could just take price decades ago and add inflation, but nobody does this because it's bad business.

>employer pays well
>uhhh this is still a bad job because you make burgers and it's unfulfilling because I'm so desperate for spiritual enlightenment or something while I spend 10 hours a day on 4channel
>why can't I afford house? Is it capitalism? Is it the Jews?

Have they increased dev salaries at the same rate as inflation? No.
Why are we supposed to adjust to soulless corporations that don't adjust for customer nor employee?
We don't have to.

>>715434042
Now this is the quality content I come to /v/ for.

>>715433603 (OP)
vidya was not $60 in the 90s, they were mainly 40 or 50
the 60 change came in the 2000s

>>715433603 (OP)
21$ an hour here would be quite literally being upper middle class, yet that's the wage for a burger flipper in the US, it's truly mindboggling how the US economy is completely fake.

>>715434771
>pays well
>the minimum legally allowed amount
>when they're not hiring illegals for less
Your mind on freedumb

>>715434771
$21/hr in California is like $7 in a real state. Those people are still on food stamps and living paycheck to paycheck.

>>715434821
its so bizarre that people just fall for this "inflation" meme
a bunch of jews arbitrarily decide how much they should increase the prices every year and retards use it as a baseline for some reason when those increases only happen because the CEOs want to buy another yatch
"adjusted for inflation" is literal cattle mentality

Only rich families bought games new. Everyone else bought them used or rented. That was an option back then.

>>715433908
Convenience and laziness are the downfall of humanity

As someone who doesn't play a lot of AAA games, $60 is my limit for a new product. Even then, it has to be a game I really want. Most of the time I won't buy anything over $30. Pretty much only get games when they're on sale. I completely ignore online games cause the life cycle of prime gaming for the product seems to end around the time there is a price decrease.

>>715433603 (OP)
The same because production costs should have gone down.

>>715434042
kino
cinema even

>>715435410
I didn't rent too often until blockbuster added weekly rentals for $7, because $5 for two days was bullshit

My family bought almost all our games new, a few we couldn't find we bought used (mortal kombat 2 and super gameboy). And we weren't rich.

>>715435410
This is true. People didn't log 1000 hours into every single game back then so borrowing a game from a friend or a weekend rental for five bucks was satisfying enough

Digital distribution cut down on the costs of selling a video game by like half, it's not my fault publishers spend $1b on shit like Hyenas and Concord.

forget about the inflation and let's address the shrinkflation here
>$60 in 90s meant 60hrs of gameplay
>$60 now mean 10hrs of gameplay at top (bullshit side quests or collecting items don't count)
what went wrong?

>>715433603 (OP)

I swear, inflation is one of the greatest scams of all time. If the western world just stopped funneling money into useless money pits like Israel, inflation would probably go down.

>>715433669
First post based post

>>715433603 (OP)
>the market is much much larger
>digital distribution
i don't know how much it should be but it shouldn't exceed $60
>inb4 studios are much larger now
yeah, that's called bloat, you don't need 200 employees doing nothing in the company that's actually related to the game itself

>>715433669
this

the dollar is worthless

>>715437690
>$60 in 90s meant 60hrs of gameplay
Not every game nor was it most games.

>>715438334
Learn what the federal reserve is. That's the only thing you need to know about how inflation is a trick by (((them))). It's honestly such a fucking scam that I've almost shut down completely when it comes to trying to fix anything. It's that fucking demoralizing. Best any of us can hope for is land a stable career and just save while living at home.

>>715433942
money worked better back then
im not talking about inflation either
stuff was better
there was less stuff

>>715438606
>stuff was better
>there was less stuff
Spoken like a true fuckin midwit lmao

>>715433603 (OP)
Yeah, but video games were invented in the late 50s. They were primative as shit, but they were the extreme early games on old radar equipment. Shit like Tennis For Two using two radar screens. Barely a game, but technically a video game.
If you adjust from the 50s to the 90s, then adjusting for inflation, the 100 dolalr tennis for two price in 1958 is 1152 in 1998. The cumulative inflation from 1958 to 1998 was 987%
You should stop adjusting for inflation and just realize that it's going to get far worse than you could possibly imagine. Every day that you don't buy it, the cost goes up. This happens to literally everything you buy.

>>715433603 (OP)
>Vidya in 90s were $60.
Most games were $40-50 except for some cartridge games with special circuitry inside like Star Fox. Then disc games were $50 until around 2010
But anyway, pic related.

>>715435192
It amazes me that you post a picture explaining exactly why inflation is such a huge problem, only to go on to say that inflation doesn't exist.

>>715433603 (OP)
But your dad paid for it. Not (You). And you played the same few games over and over and over again. Nowadays most games are disposable

>>715437690
older games only seemed longer because they were designed to be ballbusters to prevent people from renting them out over a weekend and to get you to buy the game guides

>>715438603
>>715435192

I like how the so-called great depression of the 1920's looks so insignificant now. Almost like it was a big nothing. World War 2 was a lie. The Holocaust was never real. It really helped the take over of Israel. In the 1940's the gold standard was changed to paper money, and Israel became a place to hoard gold. 9/11, large amounts of gold were moved out of the twin towers weeks before those buildings were demolished through planned explosives. Where did that gold get shipped to? You got it! The fake country of Israel. Bi..bu...bu... The Jews are Gods choose people... no they are not. They are all leaches on society, like the woman who bread them. Israel is a failed attempt at some sort of new Utopian society through selective female breeding.

>>715439321
the same people increasing the prices are asking the government to print money for them

>>715433669
Considering lack of optimization today because of fake frames and fake resolution I would say 15

>>715439016
Soul to soulless rip Amerigay

>>715440413
The money is going to different people and its more insidious than you think. When the federal reserve creates money, it goes from the central bank to various private banks through bonds. Private then manipulate their reserves to give loans for money they don't have (fractional reserve banking).
At no point do these recipients create any products or services. They just move money around and the whole system simply reduces the value of the dollar.
That store selling burgers does not make a cent out of this system. They have to raise their prices from $5 to $10 because there are now 2x as many dollars in circulation than there were 10 years ago, so each dollar is worth less.

>>715433603 (OP)
¥60

>>715433603 (OP)
29.99

>>715433603 (OP)
vidya in the 90's were 3 hours long on average

>>715433603 (OP)
>How much exactly should vidya today cost if we adjust inflation?
who cares

Companies will set prices that the buyer is willing to pay. The buyer has an obligation to themselves to limit the reduction in purchasing power. Protect yourself at all times.

>>715434042
well done

>>715433603 (OP)
I want $250 games with as much attention to detail, care, and passion as games in the 90's had.