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Message: [QUOTE="Leon, post: 191080, member: 2240"] As someone who's looked into this extensively and literally bought phantasy star 4 at 94.99$ in 1995 in a electronics boutique, it's far more complicated than that. This video does some numbers on console costs, the sequel video to it talks about game prices. [MEDIA=youtube]EZY9dSIHAIY[/MEDIA] The problem both videos have is that A, they prove 80$ games are "technically" cheaper than the most expensive ones on say, the snes, but the problem is that it does not take into account for cartridge cost, shipping cost or wage stagnation, which means 80$ is the new 60$ does not hold weight as the value of that 60 to the consumer has increased, while quality dropped, not to mention when the games standardized at 50$ in the ps1 era is when gaming exploded, games were that expensive to make up the differences, this is also ignoring dlc and other hidden costs. What i'm getting at with this is, 80$ without wage increases since the 90's while external costs increase means luxury goods going up in price starts pricing people out, hence why i said this is not simple "number go up with inflation" economics, this is why most of the games people are playing these days are cheaper or free to play games, they are being priced out even at 70$, 80 makes it even worse. [/QUOTE]

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