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Really cool videos you have on here, hope you're doing well!

Spoiled and entitled little baby thinks 70 bucks is asked too much when games cost between 50and 90 bucks when the NES was still around. Up to 90 bucks for an 8bit game with little to no content compared to modern games and no inflation count like today. With that inflation count of today NEs games would have cost 120 bucks or more. But 70 bucks is just too much to be asked for a game when little diaper Joe here says so. Get the inflation ratio out and modern games cost 40 bucks or less compared to those old NES games. Realistically speaking games have become cheaper.

You guys got $60 top tier games for about 20 years. Times change, deal with it

if im GETTING 70 dollars worth of game i will pay 70 dollars

Argh, we be pirates

Sounds like Bidenomics

In the uk the “$70 games” are £70, which is about $90 😭

NGL the inflation argument in this video isn't convincing to me.

what do you MEAN this video is 3 years old. how is this STILL A PROBLEM AFTER 3 YEARS

"if games were 70$, they wouldn't have to do microtransactions" (Games go up to 70$ AND they are still doing microtransactions) Yeah that argument did not work... They are more than happy to jack up the cost while still adding the predatory microtransactions shit. And it gets worse, look at Bethesda, 8$ for a 20 minute quest in Starfield... When previously you'd get a few hours and a fair amount of content. How long until we have to pay 70$ for a 1 hour game? and 10$ for a 5 minute quest?

I am ok with 80 dollars for a PHYSICAL game, that will work without Internet, that is well made, with no paid DLC, and comes with stuff in the box/has great replayability.

70 dollar games will stop microtransaction… lol. Lmao even.

6:46 unless you live whare cellspex lives

Now they're $80, neat.

Every single video game is free

Totally being a boomer rn but back in my day 70 dollars would get you a year of live and a 10 dollar game.

surprised you didn't bring up the overinflated amount of employees that work at these companies... I can't imagine how inefficient it is to work a studio of 500 people (excluding "exterior" roles like voice actors, marketing, etc) let alone 5000 people (the amount of people that worked on RDR2) Hideo Kojima's studio has like 100 - 150 people and I think thats def the way to go.

They can raise the prices all they want I'm only buying call of duty which rarely ever goes on sale and i actually play that almost everyday for two years at a time. Otherwise i buy games from 35 to 15 usd on sale with the bonus content. So they can go ahead and keep raising the price. I've moved on from console anyways😂

I'm late as fuck to this, but your first example is kinda stupid. Getting an average of the prices makes no sense, $70 games are as expensive as they get, if anything you should compare the most expensive movies (which would be 21.38 compared to 24.94 which is very close to 15%), but even that would be stupid, as in general dvds have gotten more out of fashion since 2005. Back then, a ton of people would by dvds, nowadays it's really only people who are really into movies, and not your average family, most either go to the cinema or watch it online. Comparing the price of a ticket to the price of a game is also pretty stupid, obviously a movie ticket will be cheaper, you only get to watch the movie once and you'll only get to watch it for around 2h, whereas you can play a $70 game however much you want whilst also that $70 game will be around the ballpark of 50h. In general it's stupid to directly compare by how many dollars something is more expensive instead of comparing percentage, for example saying that a $500k house now costs $501k is a bigger difference than something that cost $3 and now costs $5 would be stupid, even though the previous thing cost 500x more in terms of how many more dollars it is. Your second example is also kinda stupid. Games cost more than they did 20 years ago, that much is extremely obvious. Can game companies make their games cheaper? Yes they can. Can they make them drastically cheaper? No they can't. The vast majority of where the money is going towards in a super expensive game, is towards salaries. I think everyone would agree that paying all the people who make a game happen less, wouldn't be the greatest thing. I mostly agree with your third point, but you saying that stuff like fifa or madden doesn't cost much to make isn't entirely true, they basically just need to pay a shit ton for licensing, which is definitely a shit ton of money, but even then they don't need micro transactions to make a profit. I also agree with your fourth point. I feel like at best, you're cherry picking examples that fit your agenda. Also just to say I'm not some sort of $70 game shill or something, I don't really play AAA games as they're just not good, they're uninspired slop trying to be as generic as possible so it can be sold to as wide an audience as possible, I just don't agree with all your arguments.

Umm. 2024 and movie tickets per person where i live is about $15 - 30 depending on time, age, and what movie / way it is being displayed. It 100% has gone way up, at least here.

By the way, 3 years later and stram 100% verified you do not own the games on their platform. Period. Sony and microsoft have both revoked digital media too. Nintendo stopped the switch emulators as well - but who didnt expect that?

What is hilarious is some CEOs argue the games should be priced / charged based on expected or preceived hours of entertainment! You know how bloody subjective and abritrary that is?!

ok to be fair 2020 is maybe not the best year to use for a price comparison because of uh, yknow

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As an actual game dev who worked for a few years in AAA in recent years. 10k a month is complete BS, I got paid 40k, which is about 3.2k per month, and as a programmer I got paid more than most others! Also heads up, horse ball scale changing based on weather would take about 5 minutes to add... Except this is AAA so approximately a week.

I paid $10 for BTD6 and have dumped maybe $20 into the game since. That last 20 bucks is just me buying in-game currency cause I'm irresponsible. Anyone can reasonably have hundreds of hours of playtime in a $10 tower defense game with no other overhead. $70 is inexcusable for half-finished games that lose replay value after 50-100 hours, especially since most AAA games have microtransactions and paid DLC that, in many cases, bump the cost up to over 100 dolars, several hundred in some cases.

When I heard that super Mario maker load\save song I locked in lmao

Cries in Canadian. Went to buy the new silent hill remake and it's over 100 dollars for the standard version 🙃

I live in Canada, where I open my favourite video game distribution platform, and look onto my screen to see a NINETY DOLLAR game, and at this point, im just like, "Damn, inflation must be crazy. Surely, this game must be no more than like, $50 USD, right? It's gotta just be this currency that's displaying this deranged number. CAD must've just fallen off!"

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Tbh, buy a ps2 and Xbox 360, and you'll have cheap, good games for life.

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normalize game characters getting into shit because of dumb decisions! anyway sorry you had a bad experience, I like the story in BZ, as well as pretty much all the changes and biomes and fauna. your glazing of sub1 feels weird when the ending of that story doesn't make sense and both the sea emperor and especially the sea dragon leviathan are _so fucking goofy_ dear lord. anyway, onward to subnautica 2, here's hoping it's everything sub1 & bz are but five times larger and deeper and harder and scarier

Almost 4 years since upload and things haven't changed for the better.

3 years later, nearly adecade of development hell later and Ubislop tried to sell us a 80$ "QUADRUPLE A" always online, offbrand, inferior, feature devoid version of Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag, and it rightfully got scorned into irrelevance.

I didn't even realize at first this video is 3 years old

They charge more cause there’s only a few games mostly crap so they gotta scam as much as they can for there crappy Games

I'm shocked that you don't talk about the fact that the reason for the home movie price reduction, is because the home movie market has flatlined. The fact is that it's foolish to compare any specific product and its change in price because as well as inflation, that will also be affected by other market factors. The inflation based argument, that it's acceptable for video games to increase in price comes with two core principles a) that the market for video games is healthy and b) that the overall rate of inflation, supports the adjustment. That's it, not that DVDs, milk or movie tickets have inflated too, the reason we have national inflation statistics is so that we don't have to calculate inflation based on individual products. If we want to get into the home movie market specifically, it's seen a 90% decline in revenue from 2010. Do you think that, for a market that has plummeted so significantly, it would be wise to increase the price of home media?

The phrase “I have no qualms that [loot boxes] are implemented in an unethical way” cannot even be satirised. You cannot make a sentence more tone-deaf than this, even intentionally.

Well, i don't care if they charge $200 for new games because... I wait till they're on sale or pirate them anyways 😂 I'll never pay more than $25 for a game, and even then, I'd usually pay $12 or less depending on the game, I've gotten bundles of entire series with all the dlc for $6 before

This video aged like fine wine. AAA studios and big publishers are collapsing because they inject too much money on useless projects. DEI helped pump those money burning numbers but it's just a chunk of the number, not the issue itself. As a result, the much cheaper and gameplay oriented indie scene is flourishing!

Unfortunately, a lot of big developers have a "follow the herd" mentality, which inevitably leads to the idiots in charge walking straight off the cliff, dragging their studios down with them

I think I have an Idea Instead of pressuring people to make a game a certain price, the board room or creatives should ask themselves "What kind of game on a $X budget in Y genre can we make with a final retail price of $Z?" I.e. what kind of game can we make with a budget of $50k in the RPG genre that will have a retail price of $40?

Yeah one problem with modern AAA gaming that people feel that I would agree with is that games are becoming WAY too expensive to make like because of this compared to the PS2 era we rarely get those wacky weird games like Katamari on PS2 back in the day in today's world aside from indie devs like it was awesome how experimental the libraries on PS1 and PS2 in terms of genres so that there's something for everyone in those consoles sad we don't see that nowadays

Games are ridiculously cheap today, and that can only be because the market has exploded, and still keeps on growing. But covering rising development costs with the power of infinite growth alone isn't sustainable, and because we have this expectation that prices must stay stagnant despite inflation and skyrocketing costs, we are now in the monetization hellscape we are. The argument that studios should cut more corners, sacrifice "unnecessary detail" and pet projects to reel back the costs honestly just makes me sad. I'd rather see a labor of love that got thrice delayed and went over budget, than something rushed and uninspired that was directed by the financial department.

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5:38 Fuuuuuu.... I remember seeing that ad too.

USD has lost value, how are you going to beat that argument? Adjusting for inflation 50 dollars for a gcn game would be 90 today, you are getting a steal but youre too fecking stupid to understand basic economics. Fucking americans, you complain about 5 dollar cheeseburgers but dont ask why. You complain about half a million dollar housing and dont ask why. You demand you get paid more to do less, and others get paid less to do more.

'games are $70 now!' okay, so i'll just buy less of them

Just play old game, released 5-10 years ago. In a few years, these $70 games will be in sales everywhere, and prices dropped.