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Message: [QUOTE="diapered, post: 164919, member: 143752"] An interesting question because it involves a lot of economics. When you look at prices of new NES/SNES games, adjusted for inflation, those WERE +$100 games on release. There was a drop in manufacturing cost with psx/ps2 discs, but even with that, a new ps2 game adjusted for inflation would be ~$80 now, so it may seem that price is not unreasonable, but there are a few things that make me think otherwise. [USER=51053]@Zerpina[/USER] brings up a good point about digital distribution. The manufacturing was a huge part of the cost (I imagine) for NES/SNES and that is not a cost companies really have these days. Also you don't have the physical distribution overhead. On the software side (and this was something I have been thinking about recently), you pretty much needed your product to be PERFECT on day 1, you could not just patch a major bug or glitch, and that takes a lot more time and effort in testing, so it makes sense games costed more then. Nowadays, it seems it is the norm to just ship something not done, and expect everyone to understand it will be fixed later ::sadkirby For those reasons, +$80 is too much for a game, imo. It might seem silly to use ps2 game price adjusted for inflation as a benchmark, but that's what I think. But there is a lot I don't know about this. Is the dev team on a modern game a lot bigger than say FFX? [/QUOTE]

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