Poll of the Day > Are video games expensive?

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LinkPizza
12/29/18 10:38:12 PM
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I guess it also depends on what people consider expensive. If one makes a little more money, it might not be as expensive to them. Though, some of the people with lots of money might also say its expensive if theyre a little on the cheap side, even though theyre rich... Haha.
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Krazy_Kirby
12/29/18 10:40:29 PM
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solid_kush
12/29/18 10:42:06 PM
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They are if you buy everything at release and not have time to play through all of them.
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Blaqthourne
12/30/18 12:50:40 AM
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LinkPizza posted...
Blaqthourne posted...
Over 1000 physical games, 30+ consoles, and several dozen OSTs.

You must make a lot. Or bought everything when it was cheap...

It came out to around $20,000. The most I've spent on a single game is $80.
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NejiHyuga900
12/30/18 10:03:45 AM
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Maybe. PS2 AAA games were like $50 and went up to $60 in 7th gen as the mainstream price for AAA titles. Sometimes $50. Handheld games were at $40 at most.

I don't remember video game prices during the 90's as I was too young to know about the economy or the prices of our SNES, Genesis, and 5th gen games, but I think game prices were pretty unstable like they would either be decently priced or overly expensive, but I could be wrong (I need to research this thoroughly).
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Susanowo
12/30/18 12:06:00 PM
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Depending on what video game you like and where you live.

Here. A game costs around $90 for the standard edition PS4 and for ones with Season Pass, the price hikes to around $160 each.
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ParanoidObsessive
12/30/18 12:53:53 PM
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I'd say when you factor in the full price of a video game (which includes DLC and microtransaction costs as well as retail price), and when you consider the content of games themselves (which may include major games being deliberately gimped to sell the aforementioned microtransactions), I'd say most games these days feel like they're not worth what's being charged for them, but there are at least a few that feel like they should cost twice as much because of how good they are.

"Developers have to charge more because costs are higher than ever" is something of a fallacy, though, because it assumes static pricing and ignores the fact that a lot of those extra costs are things the developers themselves forced on themselves without customers actually asking for them. And we've already seen smaller studios generate triple-A level (or better) quality games with a fraction of triple-A budgets.


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Dikitain
12/30/18 1:11:20 PM
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NejiHyuga900 posted...
I don't remember video game prices during the 90's as I was too young to know about the economy or the prices of our SNES, Genesis, and 5th gen games, but I think game prices were pretty unstable like they would either be decently priced or overly expensive, but I could be wrong (I need to research this thoroughly).


It actually depended on the game back then, because most of the "hardware" was on the game cartridge itself, hence they could get pretty expensive. Something that was relatively simple could cost $40 - $50 (or $20 for "Player's Choice" versions) while something that required an FX chip (I.E. Starfox) or expanded memory (I.E. pretty much any JRPG) could be upwards of $80. And I agree that games back then needed to cost that much because cartridges were expensive. Nowadays though, not so much because physical media is cheep, and digital is even cheaper.
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old_school227
12/30/18 1:13:00 PM
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I guess if you cant wait a month for games to go half off, then yeah they can get pricey. But the amount of games I've spent $5-$10 on and played for 100+ hours is insanely cheep. Hell they have games that are flat out free now that are actually enjoyable.

Honestly its hard to think of a cheaper hobby for the amount of enjoyment per dollar.
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LinkPizza
12/30/18 1:24:54 PM
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old_school227 posted...
I guess if you cant wait a month for games to go half off, then yeah they can get pricey. But the amount of games I've spent $5-$10 on and played for 100+ hours is insanely cheep. Hell they have games that are flat out free now that are actually enjoyable.

Honestly its hard to think of a cheaper hobby for the amount of enjoyment per dollar.

Usually takes more than a month for the good games. And Nintendo usually doesn't lower prices. So, you usually have to find certain deals for those... I dont think ots That hard to find a cheaper or more expensive hobby. As said earlier, you can make any hobby cheaper or more expensive easily...
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Zacek
12/30/18 5:11:24 PM
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Yes, they are expensive.
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DrCidd
12/30/18 9:44:08 PM
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Considering inflation, games are actually significantly cheaper than they used to be.
Take Chrono Trigger for example, which was $80 when it first came out in 1995.
That's roughly equivalent to $130 dollars today.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of games at that time were probably closer to $50 but RPGs were almost always $20-$30 dollars more expensive.
But still, even the $50 dollar games were more like $80 today.

So I'd say...yeah, games are cheap. Especially if you buy them on sale, pre-owned, or a little while after they've released.

Also gotta factor in that they were a lot harder to find back then, too. We didn't have gamestops and such back then. You could go to toys'r'us or walmart or whatever and just hoped they had what you were looking for. If you even knew what you were looking for that is. You couldn't just go to youtube and watch a gameplay video either. You got a few pictures on the back of the box (if the store employee would open the case for you), or maybe in a Nintendo Power magazine, back when the subscription was worth having.

Buying new games was kind of a gamble back then. You could get something truly great like secret of mana or super metroid, but on the other hand, you could wind up shelling out $40-$50 for Plok and regretting your purchase terribly.
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LinkPizza
12/30/18 9:49:36 PM
#64:


DrCidd posted...
Considering inflation, games are actually significantly cheaper than they used to be.
Take Chrono Trigger for example, which was $80 when it first came out in 1995.
That's roughly equivalent to $130 dollars today.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of games at that time were probably closer to $50 but RPGs were almost always $20-$30 dollars more expensive.
But still, even the $50 dollar games were more like $80 today.

Dont get me wrong. I agree that they were more expensive back in the day. But that doesnt automatically make them cheap. That just means theyre cheaper today than the past. But still expensive. Just not as expensive...
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DrCidd
12/30/18 9:59:25 PM
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LinkPizza posted...
Dont get me wrong. I agree that they were more expensive back in the day. But that doesnt automatically make them cheap. That just means theyre cheaper today than the past. But still expensive. Just not as expensive...


Don't get me wrong. But that doesn't make them expensive either.
As another user pointed out. Entertainment value per dollar is great in most cases.
Especially in current times because you can literally know exactly what you're getting before you buy it.

Let's say you put in 120 well enjoyed hours on Breath of the Wild. At full price, that's 50 cents per hour.

I'd say that's especially cheap. Again, there's also the fact that you're not gambling on your purchase. Back then, you had to spend 2 or 3 dollars to rent it for a night (2 if you got it on a saturday) just to try a game out, and that's if someone else didn't already rent it first.
You'd get a couple screenshots in a magazine, or MAAAYBE a commercial in very rare cases, and they didn't always show gameplay footage either. Not that they do nowadays, but the difference is youtube.

So yeah, I'm gonna say it's cheap. Unless you literally buy every game that comes out.
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LinkPizza
12/30/18 11:17:06 PM
#66:


DrCidd posted...
LinkPizza posted...
Dont get me wrong. I agree that they were more expensive back in the day. But that doesnt automatically make them cheap. That just means theyre cheaper today than the past. But still expensive. Just not as expensive...


Don't get me wrong. But that doesn't make them expensive either.
As another user pointed out. Entertainment value per dollar is great in most cases.
Especially in current times because you can literally know exactly what you're getting before you buy it.

Let's say you put in 120 well enjoyed hours on Breath of the Wild. At full price, that's 50 cents per hour.

I'd say that's especially cheap. Again, there's also the fact that you're not gambling on your purchase. Back then, you had to spend 2 or 3 dollars to rent it for a night (2 if you got it on a saturday) just to try a game out, and that's if someone else didn't already rent it first.
You'd get a couple screenshots in a magazine, or MAAAYBE a commercial in very rare cases, and they didn't always show gameplay footage either. Not that they do nowadays, but the difference is youtube.

So yeah, I'm gonna say it's cheap. Unless you literally buy every game that comes out.

I wouldnt say the gambling is gone. Seeing something and playing it are 2 different things. Especially if the people playing it are pretty funny. But I would say you have more sources to check out a game. But Im not only going by price per hours. Because getting a $200 game that gave me 500 hours of gameplay means about 40 per hour. But $200 is still a lot. Then there are games you dont have much fun in. Im looking purely at the price. I think $60 is kind of a lot. And adds up. Thats the normal US dollar price for games. Buying 1 isnt bad on its own, but I still wouldnt call $60+tax cheap... Personally. Some might, though...
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Revelation34
12/31/18 4:26:49 AM
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You can get a 88 inch Samsung 4k TV at best buy for $20,000. That's obviously cheap since you can get hours of entertainment from staring at the screen.
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ernieforss
12/31/18 11:43:58 AM
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compared to board games. they are cheap. Board games usually are about $75 and then they have $25 expansions and they usually about 3 to 5 of them.
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Troll_Police_
12/31/18 12:54:47 PM
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If you game on a PC they are cheap
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Revelation34
12/31/18 1:47:21 PM
#70:


ernieforss posted...
compared to board games. they are cheap. Board games usually are about $75 and then they have $25 expansions and they usually about 3 to 5 of them.


That's only for like those huge board games that are more like something like warhammer.
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