/v/ - Video Games

Can only speak as an American but I can effortlessly get brand new games for about 10 dollars when they would normally sell for 60. Any gamestop is good for this. If you are going to school you are already making a mistake.

>Have to spend bucks

>In Europe

Also plenty of store chains put up like -25% discounts at release, especially online storefronts.

Inflation.

If you adjust for inflation when looking at game prices from decades ago compared to now you will find a disparity.

Games today cost less than they used to, in America, because the value of the us dollar has depreciated while the price of games has started consistent.

In the US, game launch prices these days average about $40 for handheld (whether or not that will matter in the future depends on if handhelds proper stick around), $60 for console games, not counting season passes, DLC, or LE/CEs. Console games that are either "end of gen"/"ported forward" might be a cheaper $50. Handheld games used to average about $30 if memory serves, with some companies like Square-Enix charging more like $35-40 because they thought they could (and did) get away with it.

>Nier: Automata

Bit funny you bring you that up. It's been like a year and a fourth since it came out, yet that one's still sitting at $50 or so anywhere I look. Not sure what that speaks more of: lowish physical availability, extremely high demand, the game's quality, or no one wanting to feel they're losing shekels on it. I'm still waiting for somewhere out here to do a pricing fuck up.

Yeah, I also buy used games when I really wanna play a certain title, but when a game has just been released, it's hard to find resellers. At least from my experience. And I cannot wait to play the new Smash. So when it finally drops I wanna get it as soon as possible, so I'll be spending a lot of money again (considering that there'll probably be DLC), just to play a fucking video game. And yeah, it's my own fault when I'm bad at controlling my urges.

But with so many good games coming out nowerdays it's kinda hard to hold back.

It's just so weird to me that games, products you use for maybe a month (With some exceptions ofc) and is then disposable, costs so fucking much.

>>15208721

>"Must Play"

That doesn't mean you actually must play them. Who's telling you to buy these games that you can't just tell them to fuck off?

>>15208721

I didnt buy any of them. Console peasent, I pity you.

>>15208765

Why not, unless a game is liable to have a multiplayerbase limited to the time around release, wait on mainstream shit that has no real chance of selling badly with the masses, buy it cheaper preowned down the line, and save dropping money day one for shit that likely will not be that easy to find down the line? Of course, that's assuming you can find many current games worth putting the money down on.

1. Bloated Marketing budgets

2."Artist" Unions

3. Market average standard distribution.

>>15208754

>Bit funny you bring you that up. It's been like a year and a fourth since it came out, yet that one's still sitting at $50 or so anywhere I look.

It doesn't even deign participate in steam sales half the time, so I'd say it's more like Sony completely forgot about it.

>>15208782

Lucky you, I had to bring lunches from home growing up, didn't get an allowance, and playing anything new meant trading most of my old stuff in. Eventually I just settled into playing the same two series, because at least those (to a degree; dodged a fucking bullet a few times somehow) I could expect to like what was in them.

>>15208787

I don't know. That's about the price for both preowned and what new copies there still are (assuming it's still getting prints).

>Steam sales

>Sony

Wouldn't it be more on Platinum as developer, or more likely Square as publisher, if it gets into markdowns or not? And of course that's applying it to the digital version.

>>15208800

>Yeah that's why they're always shilled on 90% off sales, right?

I've honestly been questioning if that's been why some companies are so prone to leaving digital versions of games full/nearly full price long after release, just to make the occasional "WOW 40% OFF" markdowns more appealing than just continually reducing the price. Otherwise it just strikes me as them being retarded, especially when you have cases where physical copies have dropped drastically but the digital one doesn't even bother to compete.

pretty sure games have gotten cheaper to buy when you consider how money has been devalued

>>15208782

>Growing up I would just skip lunch and pocket my lunch money

How in the mother fuck didn't you starve? It's not natural for a child to be able to go nine hours without eating, and not collapse. Much less every day. You must have the metabolism of a plant.

>>15208888

he fucked up his strength stats for videogames

>>15208888

9 hour school days? what the fuck

>>15208721

It's called inflation.

http://www.in2013dollars.com/1990-dollars-in-2018?amount=60

>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index, the dollar experienced an average inflation rate of 2.37% per year. Prices in 2018 are 92.80% higher than prices in 1990.

>In other words, $60 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to $115.68 in 2018, a difference of $55.68 over 28 years.

You know, I don't think 'Inflation' is the whole picture here. I'm fairly certain it is much cheaper to manufacturer physical games than it was. On top of that digital sales are through the roof and there are no real publishing costs there, besides distributer cut.

>>15208888

>Nine Hours

That's a funny way of saying ADHD Hell.

just wait if you can't buy something or just perform an unauthorized download

I know the PS3 version of Persona 5 is currently being sold for $30 brand new.

I've spent maybe $120 on vidya over the last two years

>>15210766

for a time digital games were cheaper and then niggermart and niggerstop and all those other niggers whined as niggers tend to do, threatening to not sell games if they let digimon sell their games cheaper.

Adjusted for inflation and you can see that you're not paying for more. Don't buy multiplayer games or season passes. The way I see it, DLC is just fan fiction mods that are not apart of the base game.

>>15208729

I remember you from the other thread. You basically swap labels on shitty nes cartridges and you scam them. I like you.

>>15210766

Nigga cost of living has gone up but wages haven't matched which means there is less money to spend of luxuries. I will never be happy paying 20 bucks NZD for a video game even with this mass inflation we have and they're asking closer to 100 for a AAA new release. The publishers can get fucked if they really think I'm going to spend that much on it. 10 dollars is a decent price for a game, 15 if it's actually good.

>>15208721

>Can somebody pls explain to me why video games cost so fucking much?

Because people buy them.

>believing in the inflation jew

>pricing

What's that?

>>15212008

HIT THE LIGHTS

>A typical kid would have to safe money for like 4-5 months to buy a single fucking game. And (at least for Nintendo) isn't kids the target audience? Then why the fuck are games so fucking expensive?

Good boy points.

>>15208979

US schools are 12 hours including transit.

>>15212565

what in the hell? where?

>>15208721

jews

>>15208721

Burgerdollar's value has almost halved in value since 1990. It's to be expected that games would increase in price. Also games were made by way less people back then and not as many kikes were involved. Add 2 and 2 together and you'll get why

>>15208721

Demand.

If people didn't buy those things at that price they wouldn't be able to do it.

Considering you can get games "for free" and still companies get loads of money you can get the picture.

I thought Capcom would go to shit after the fuck up with RE5. They included all the content in the physical copy yet you had to pay a lot to unlock everything. Guess what? People paid and Capcom kept the format.

You can also buy plenty of cheap games on Steam. Just not the AAA ones.

Because vidya nerds are the perfect atomized consumers, they might bitch but they keep buying worse shit for more money every year

>>15208746

>Inflation

Too bad salaries haven't followed with that, europeans are dirt-poor at the moment.

>>15227679

>they might bitch but they keep buying worse shit for more money every year

Sad but true.

>>15212047

>>15227692

This is the appropriate response to corporate shills and morons

Last full price game I bought was forza 7 stutter feat for 100aud

Never again wish I got a refund I think I still might

Haven't bought anything since over 50 bucks