Why Haven't Video Game Prices Gone Up

[2DUM2TAP]

New games in Canada are $80 now, whereas they were about $60 a decade ago. Part of that is inflation, part of it is the Canadian dollar going to shit in the last four years. But as others have said they make up for it with paid DLC and now even worse, micro transactions.

But overall video games haven’t gone up much over the past 20 years, and certainly the price of consoles haven’t risen. My PS4 was like $400 Canadian when I bought it in 2015. Compared to a PS3 which was like $500 or $600 Canadian at launch that’s pretty good.

The PS3 was really expensive as it had the new blu ray tech in it.... they sold those at a loss....

 

[Orgasmo]

What the hell are you talking about? Games were $59.99 ten years ago, and now they cost $79.99. That's not to mention the gouge trick known as paid DLC.

Have you been living in a cave?

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Huh. I got rocket league for free on PS4 but i dont ever really see it for more than 20 dollars. Did you buy muti

Same that game was free and now it’s 20 bucks. If people spend over that it is their own fault . Games have stayed around the same , 60 bucks since Snes. I have only spent more on one game, horizon zero dawn because I bought a 20 buck expansion.. most games enough is included in the 60 bucks

 

[Spoken]

It used to be $50. Now it's $60 with ingame purchasing being a norm. Shit is expensive

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

What the hell are you talking about? Games were $59.99 ten years ago, and now they cost $79.99. That's not to mention the gouge trick known as paid DLC.

Have you been living in a cave?

No they arnt

 

[Rimbaud82]

I remember ps1 games being like 30 quid. Seems like they've gone up to me.

 

[90 50]

They’ve actually gone down from a certain point of view.

A 60.00 game in the90’s cost way more than a 60.00 game today due to inflation.

 

[blaseblah]

Seem like they been the same for 20yrs but almost everything else has gone up.

Oh really? Home movie prices have gone down. Music prices are down. Big screen TVs, other appliances, etc.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

They’ve actually gone down from a certain point of view.

A 60.00 game in the90’s cost way more than a 60.00 game today due to inflation.

Yeah I had a pic to show this but not how to on my phone .. a nes game today would be 59.99 to 89.99 and SNES would range from 80-96 bucks

 

[Cheese]

Oh really? Home movie prices have gone down. Music prices are down. Big screen TVs, other appliances, etc.

yea i think so. CD used to be 14.99 and now digital is 9.99. Blue rays are 20 but digital is cheaper. I know you pay more for quitly of 4k BR bu options are there. Digital game cost as much as physical releases. LP are expinvse today though.

 

[marioh]

you're also leaving out a huge sector of gaming, the iOS and android game platforms.
many of which are FTP, but use payments so that players can get better faster. those games have no spending caps. people can, and have, spent thousands of dollars on just 1 game.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

People are forgetting all the free games out there also.. you wouldn’t get games like fortnite back in the day free or rocket league . Games are on average much cheaper . You had to buy everything back in the day

 

[Prefect]

The cost of making a game is spread over a lot more customers and the cost to reproduce a copy of a game is almost zero. Video games were expensive as fuck as you go back. When the Intellivision was released it was sold in dollars adjusted for today at over $1,200 usd. We are in the golden age of games. They are ridiculously cheap on a per unit of time entertained basis.

I used to download a lot of copyrighted games growing up but most stuff is so cheap after its initial release that it is less of a headache to just buy it than to track down a warez copy, waste time getting it to work, and hoping it isn't infected with malware. I probably spend $100-200 on games a year. I spent that much when I was 9-10 years old on like 3-4 nintendo games a year.

 

[Ablis89]

What the hell are you talking about? Games were $59.99 ten years ago, and now they cost $79.99. That's not to mention the gouge trick known as paid DLC.

Have you been living in a cave?

Those prices are only in Canada. Games are still $60 in the states.

 

[Joe]

i usually buy games a few months after they come out so i pay half the original price and i have never bought any dlc. that shit should already be in the game to begin with.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

i usually buy games a few months after they come out so i pay half the original price and i have never bought any dlc. that shit should already be in the game to begin with.

DLC usually comes with it if you wait long enough

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

Video game prices dropped when they went to CD. Big games (meaning memory size) on SNES and Genesis hit up to $89 USD. I definitely remember Final Fantasy 3 being $79.

Prices averaged out to $49 until the 360 and they decided to raise it to $59 with the justification that it was more expensive to make HD games.

People complaining about $59 games don't realize how bad it used to be.

 

[ndwolfwood]

Because nerds don't have any money.

 

[clutchCAT420]

I buy my games a year late. By the time black Friday comes.i got 6 games for the price of one new release. Plus c5pmes with all the dlc free etc.
Lol@ paying full price. Fuck em....

 

[flashNsmash]

What are you talking about.. in the 90'$ games were around 40-50$ for a new release...

Damn games for my kids now days are like $60 and that's not including the other$100 they spend on patches and shit..

Games are an easy $150 now days..

Fucking noob..

what? i paid $95 for MKII for genesis on its release day in '94. any of the cartridges that required extra ROM or RAM cost a fortune, FF7, DKC, SSF2 etc.