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Posted January 12, 2013
When i saw the title I inmediately remembered this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV4zcuF2fe8
Posted January 12, 2013
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Fictionvision: Isn't that due mainly to Nintendo never dropping the price on their games?
They don't? I think you haven't been following the game's market. There are many older Nintendo games for Wii that had a price cut sometime after release, like Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Zelda Twilight Princess, Donkey Kong COuntry Returns, Metroid Other M, and the list goes on. I go to my local game's store once a week, so i know quite a bit about game's prices. The prices here follow the ones in US, by the way.
Posted January 12, 2013
This is one of the major reasons I jumped back into classic games in the first place.

"Well, games are $60 instead of $50, and I missed out on these 30 or so games from the 90s because Doom/Doom2 completely monopolized about 5 or 6 years of my life... may as well spend my $60 on these 30 old games I missed out on instead of this one new game."
Posted January 12, 2013
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timppu: The numerical "prices" will go up in time, due to inflation.
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wodmarach: As you can see they haven't games in the 80's were $50-70 today they are still in the same range
Then there's nothing to complain about, as the $50-70 games of today are actually cheaper than the $50-70 games of the 80s (due to inflation). :)
Posted January 12, 2013
I've no rush to play single player games. My backlog is big enough to keep me busy until any game I want is just cheaper. The only reason I've bought games with a pricier tag is because i have friends who want to play it multiplayer and even then, we don't go for the release price.

The last release day games I bought were Starcraft 2 (to play it with my brother and friends) and Wither 2 (to help CD Projekt, which by the way, I haven't even installed yet. I'll have to redownload though, my backup is from the first version they uploaded.)

Seriously, the only way developers will learn is if sales plummet. As long as they think their fan base is a raving bunch of addicts, they'll keep raising prices.
Posted January 12, 2013
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El_Caz: Seriously, the only way developers will learn is if sales plummet.
Then they will keep waving the "piracy ate my homework" flag as long as their bo$$e$ believe them since every big studio wants a big budget to attempt to make (over several months or years) a big blockbuster game, since the alternative is to work in smallish games that make smallish profits and that you finish so quickly you have to think on the next one while working in the yet unfinished game.
Posted January 12, 2013
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El_Caz: Seriously, the only way developers will learn is if sales plummet. As long as they think their fan base is a raving bunch of addicts, they'll keep raising prices.
What part of prices are actually LOWER if adjusted for inflation don't you get? If you paid the prices from 1990 you'd be paying $125 now adjusted! Your games are CHEAPER now than they were 20 years ago. Prices HAVE NOT BEEN RAISED! Hell you can buy a 360 for the price of some games from then (adjusted for inflation).
Posted January 12, 2013
It will be $60. If games go up to 70 it won't be until PS4/720. But really, what do you want? Games cost more and more to make each gen so it's expected that they'll cost more eventually.
Posted January 12, 2013
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Ric1987: It will be $60. If games go up to 70 it won't be until PS4/720. But really, what do you want? Games cost more and more to make each generation so it's expected that they'll cost more eventually.
Same thing can be said about movies, the budget of a summer blockbuster has increased to rival the size of some small countries annual budget (nowadays the salary of ONE actor in a movie is equal to the whole budget most movies had in the 80s). But prices of tickets have not increased that much and you can get nowadays the blu-ray (plus a dvd) of said movie for less than twenty bucks for most of them. So please do explain me again why it should be different with videogames.
Posted January 12, 2013
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Ric1987: But prices of tickets have not increased that much
Actually they've increased inline with inflation. GAME PRICES HAVE NOT INCREASED INLINE WITH INFLATION. Get that? Prices for games are almost at an all time low if you adjust for inflation. NES games would be $125 NeoGeo games would be... almost $300! Thats right for the price of one game adjusted for inflation you could buy a new console today.
Posted January 12, 2013
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Fictionvision: Isn't that due mainly to Nintendo never dropping the price on their games?
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Neobr10: They don't? I think you haven't been following the game's market. There are many older Nintendo games for Wii that had a price cut sometime after release, like Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Zelda Twilight Princess, Donkey Kong COuntry Returns, Metroid Other M, and the list goes on. I go to my local game's store once a week, so i know quite a bit about game's prices. The prices here follow the ones in US, by the way.
Nintendo did do a Player's Choice or whatever it was called line for the Wii eventually, but their games are notorious for staying high. Also Other M dropped because the game was widely hated by fans for the horrible story.

For example. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is still $50. Even Super Mario 64 DS still retails for $30, and that game is going on 9 years old now. New Super Mario Brothers Wii and DS still have $50 and $35 retail prices on them. You can sometimes catch the games on a sale, especially if they have been out a while. But for official price drops, Nintendo games don't see them often unless they are retail disappointments.
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