A typical PC or Console game in 1990 was priced at $50.

Now, 25 years later, a typical AAA release (PC or Console) costs $60, while thousands of non AAA games cost anywhere from $40 to free.

Of note is the fact that the development costs of something like The Witcher 3 or Just Cause 3 are immeasurably higher then the development of any of the 1990 titles.

Don't forget the inflation either. $50 in 1990 equals $95.50 in 2015.

This is all to say that we should be VERY, VERY happy with the prices of games right now.

Same here, except that Pillars of Eternity no longer costs $90; it now costs $115 and likely to be even more if more DLCs come out, so I might have to go up to 85% or 90%.

Yes and you shouldn't talk or you're entitled.

/s

No, mine cost less than 6$ ;P

You pirate allot don't you?

Why would you assume that? There's no need to pirate games at all. Good prices for literally more games than you can play can be found at any time.

Never pirated a game in my life.

Well, this means they have to sell a considerably lower amount of copies to break even. :D
Funny secret message!

Btw. obviously there is one way out even today: Move to Russia. Prices are currently vastly different depending on region. http://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_news_price_updates

But you have to take into account that the amount of potential buyers of your game also has risen far above the few people that bought video (or computer) games in the 90ies.

It is never enough. You grow as much as you can in capitalist world.
Only in socialist countries prices were set by government and you were not able to become a millionaire and be above society.

That is true, which is why the average price is now much lower than 25 years ago in absolute terms.

Well they couldn't use the word DLC since they made a big deal about DLC being free (granted, they didn't mean 'bigger DLC packs' but it' still a stigma they themselves created), but from what I remember at least for the first "expansion" the playtime is no higher than some of the Skyrim/Borderlands content, and they just call them DLC.

The Secret Armory of General Knoxx for the first Borderlands game added from 10-20 hours of quality content. Maybe Gearbox should invest in PR as much CDPR does:D

Compare that to the movie industry. They are easily spending 50 times (if not exponentially more in some cases) to make movies today than they did just 20 - 30 years ago. Yet the cost to buy a movie (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray) hasn't really changed much. VHS new releases were pretty much what Blu-Ray new releases are today. THEN, factor in that in that $50.00 price point for games in the 90s, a significant amount was tied up in packaging and distribution costs... most of which don't exist today. We also had better "demo" (try before you buy) options for many of the expensive games that we don't have today. (More risk and higher cost today).

I'd also claim its not very fair to bundle in Indie pricing with the AAA pricing scheme. Getting garbage for 99 cents doesn't change the pricepoint of a $90.00 game that assumes a season pass from day 1. I.E. just because there are cheaper options, doesn't mean the high price points are reasonable.

All that to say, I'm in huge agreement of waiting out the price breaks... but I don't think the inflation is an exact match after DLC (Season Pass) expenses. Valve promised huge savings to the consumer when Steam kicked out both the Publisher and the Distributor.... here we are with games costing almost 100% more 12 years later.