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Here we’re complaining about the price of AAA games today, meanwhile, PacMan for the Atari cost 28 GBP in 1982, that’s 125 pounds ($150 USD) accounting for inflation
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Here we’re complaining about the price of AAA games today, meanwhile, PacMan for the Atari cost 28 GBP in 1982, that’s 125 pounds ($150 USD) accounting for inflation
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those are prices in a world with no competition.it doesnt mean back then it was fair and now its cheap.
bit mad to think as a kid i remember seeing this in the spare cupboard in my room thinking it was some ancient device my nan owned, then mum gets it out and gets pong running on it.
i thought it was worthless junk, like maybe £50 at best with games costing £5. god damn.
even nintendo games back in the day were bloody pricey.
Good thing it’s not Really comparable to todays market then
Yep. I had the combat game that came with the system, then one game every birthday and xmas. After three or so years i only had five games – space invaders, pac man, asteroids, missile command.
Imagine that. Five games in three years – i borrowed Le Mans too tho,
I paid $50 for super Mario brothers three. That’s $112 in today’s money. People are complaining about $60 or $70 for games that take years and millions of dollars with teams of 100 or more people. It’s so dumb.
With gamepass, humble bundle, Uplay+, EA access, PS+, constant Steam sales, prices going down to 50% after half a year, countless f2p games…..gaming has never been cheaper, diverse and easier accessible than nowadays.
Sure you had, have and always will have greedy companies and practices, but that is easier to avoid.
I had a old copy of sonic 2 for the master system with the original virgin megastores price on it, it cost £69. Games are way cheaper now the they’ve ever been.
Now do wages.
Cool people made like $50/hr at McDonald’s adjusted as well back then you could also buy a house for $10,000. What’s your point? Games are not worth $70,80 or $90 in todays time.
Gaming today it’s the cheapest it has ever been
Every time this stupid argument gets brought up, it misses pretty much every other financial factor surrounding the situation. Has the median wage gone up 5x since 1982? No. When you give me 5x the money to spend, then you can tell me I should pay 5x as much for merchandise.
Dont give them any ideas
This is a really stupid argument. As pointed out by others, the wage hasn’t grown that much at the same time.
Secondly, the number of copies expected to be sold is also important. I think in the 80s the games had a justification to be expensive because they didnt sell millions of copies. So may be the companies really needed to sell it at a higher price to make a profit/fund a sequel etc. Now the AAA games have a very wide reach and high sales. The companies easily make absurd amount of profit but they still want to charge more money per copy just to squeeze evey penny from the customer
WAY cheaper than the arcade.
I miss Argos catalogues.
At least it was a finished, bug free game xD
Of course when games were a niche thing they were more expensive. To be expected. Now they’re a mass market product and still expensive af. Not to be expected.
Sounds like someone wants to shove their nose up the corpo’s ass. I’ll never understand it.
I bought “Hardball!” for the TRS 80 Color Computer around 1988 and it was $55.
Gaming prices have barely moved since I was a child. I’m in my fifties.
Are you trying to justify what all asshole CEOs want you to pay for their products or services? You must realize they do have a extremely vested interest in making you pay as much as possible.
The shear stupidity of some people who want to pay more for games when the the gaming industry is bigger than the music and film industries combined.
Morever, computers worth say $2K in the 90s are much worse in every specification than a $2K computer today and you get more of everything by at least 1 order of magnitude. Your phone if you could transport to the 90s would be a super computer worth around 6 or 7 figures if not more.
I had this game on my Atari – it SUUUUUCKED..
Was a bag of doritos 6 dollars?
Give me a full game with no dlc or microtransation or lootboxes or pay to win working offline/online mode. With no glitches
And I’ll pay $150
But first i need to ask my boss for a 1500% pay raise
bad bot.
The economics are meaningless, unless you can prove that you got Atari PacMan for actual pennies, the value of modern games is orders of magnitude more.
**Atari PacMan (*****entire gameplay loop*****)**: Move yellow orb up down left or right, dodge ghost, eat pellet, super pellet makes you powerful
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**CyberPunk 2077 (*****tiny fraction of what is possible*****)**: Drive down the streets of a beautifully rendered future city in your cyber-car at 150 cyber-miles-per-cyberhour, have your cyber-loli eject themselves from the car at full speed.
Then, whilst gliding down to the ground, execute a half dozen hacks on your enemies causing their skulls to explode, then take the remaining dozen out with smart rounds that guide themselves into your enemies skulls. Finally, walk over and high five Keanu Reeves.
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There’s no comparison in what you’re getting for the money. Game != Game
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We’re living the good fucking life, and it seems to just be getting better.