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Message: [QUOTE="Leon, post: 190635, member: 2240"] Doesn't work like that, alot of that "games used to cost more" stuff is bs, yes AAA games cost more, but most people aren't asking for billion dollar budget games, clair obscure expedition 33 supposedly costed a fair amount to make, but no where near AAA levels and it's selling like hot cakes, schedule 1 was made by 3 people and has sold more than most recent AAA games, it's not super detailed graphics most people want, it's good games, which can literally look like minecraft and cost less than 1 million$ to make, it's all about the gameplay for most of us. As for inflation, unlike what the internet might tell you, most games did not cost 90$ in the 90's, it's true that some were absurdly expensive, chrono trigger was 80$ and phantasy star 4 was 100$(though if you believe victor ireland, sega of america priced it so high because they wanted it to fail), these weren't common, most games started at around 50-60$ which would be around 70-80$ in today's money, which yes was high but game prices also dropped much faster back then, not to mention the cartridges themselves costed alot more to make than cd's or lol, digital, in chrono trigger and phantasy star 4's case, both were on extremely large cartridges that drove up a good deal of the cost. TL;DR no, inflation is not the cause, bloated budgets no one asked for is the cause for most of this. [/QUOTE]

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