Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I’ve seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It’s always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it’s been a thing.
Even more dumb is that sales are stupidly frequent so why even bother trying to pay $70 anyways besides FOMO.
I think the issue with the price thing is that it’s more the rule rather than the exception. Back then maybe you got a super deluxe for 70, now 70 just gets you the base game.
In any event: the Apple Vision Pro is one. Apple puts out a VR headset that essentially does what any 800 dollar headset does for much more money and everyone loses their shit saying how revolutionary it is. It’s not.
If $70 got you the full game, I wouldn’t even be as opposed to it, but it’s always $70 for the standard edition and oh, also, there’s $200+ worth of DLC and microtransactions to buy, as well. Back in the 90s, you got everything for that price.
Were games $70 in the 90s? I feel like they were like $40. $60 at the most.
40-50 was the standard price.
60 didn’t come until 2000s
well they said an add so it could be something like ff10 delux that comes with the massive guide book or a figurine or such.
I’ve tried the vision pro and the quality is definitely impressive even compared to other headsets, but the quest three does colour passthrough well enough that unless you have zero interest in games and money is no object, it makes no sense to buy the vision pro.
Yeah, the market is flooded with cheap VR headsets with eye and hand tracking! Stupid Apple! /s
Teens acting like teens.
There are writings dating back to ancient Greece of people complaining about young people and how stupid/lazy/whatever they are compared to the previous generations.
Maybe we can drop that one already.
Teenagers are just filled with hormones and poor decision-making skills. They’re big balls of attitude and it still seems to astound people when they want to be argumentative.
Why do people act like it’s righteous to suck off game companies? They won’t send you a copy for defending their honor online, that’s some mall ninja shit.
I am sure some are bootlickers but we now know that game companies pay social media companies to atro turf …
So half the time that idiot ain’t a person, just an npc doing his job.
With a little skill they are pretty easy to spot.
What? Just because you found 1 game at 70 dollars back in the 90s doesn’t mean that it’s a fair price for games?
Even now with tons of inflation since 1990 it’s a ridiculous price and reserved only for top tier games that everyone wants to buy, like Baldurs Gate.
Most things Apple does
I still remember when they added the pull down notification drawer, it was all over tech review sites like it was the next big thing. Android phones had the same feature for 2 years before Apple introduced it.
- Yellow news
- The struggle of the intellectual minority.
- The fundamental struggle of autonomy against tyranny and those that steal it away.
What’s yellow news?
Sensationalist journalism. This manifests as clickbait headlines, agenda pieces, and other such tactics.
The propaganda regime we live under.
To be fair, there are a lot more $5 games nowadays that provide hours of good quality content.
There were plenty older games that charged full price and are shit aswell. And there was less selection…
“Wokeness”
People have less spendable money on average than 20 years ago and there are more games and more unfinished or broken games, that are sold for a higher price. Games instead should get cheaper, as people have less money to spend. Your assumption that games used to be more expensive is therefore flawed.
That said, AI generated images, aka fake images and nudes of celebrities etc, are seen as new now. But we could do that with image editing software for decades, just the speed changed. Now everyone acts like as we require new laws, but they are already in place. AI video generation might be a bit more tricky, as one used to not be able to do that without a lot of time and money, but still, it’s nothing new and laws are in place. We won’t be able to stop this technological advancement and we even harm people by that. If only rich corporates dictate the AI environment, we destroy possible startups, harm citizens and also give evil actors more power, because the later doesn’t care about laws, while the average Joe’s privacy and other rights are getting more and more restricted.
$70 for video games back in the 90s? What world did you come from?
I was paying $5 for video games back then.
Sure, for $5 you could get some old games from the bargain table, but some people like to play them when they’re new.
One of my favorite memories is my mum taking me and my brother to a toy shop that sold games after we finished the school year and getting second hand games. Every year my mum did this for us and we’d usually get like 2 for the price of 1. We didn’t have a lot of money so new games were only got on Xmas.
It definitely was a thing if you bought them new. http://i.imgur.com/zf92o.jpg
Yep, I paid £65 for Street Fighter 2 on the Megadrive, back in the early 90s. A huge amount of money then, but worth it given how much I played it.
…The fucking console only cost $100. If that ad is the default, that’s fucking insane.
No console went for $100 new when it first came out. Those were the prices long after the economy of scale made it a profitable gamble to sell the hardware at a loss to drive game sales and make up the difference and then some.
I remember Super Nintendo games at ~$60-$70 at first release. They quickly came down in price to ~$40-$50 after a month or two.
Consoles were usually $300 new. I remember spending $600 on a 3DO.
That’s the second generation of Genesis/Megadrive, so at that point they were probably selling it as a loss leader having minimised production costs.
The real money is in the games, so you make the console cheap and create more customers for the games.
Most new games were $40-50 IIRC. A few high demand would be more.
There was a day before games came on a CD. You remember the good old floppy disk? Yeah, Walmart had brand new games that fit on a single floppy disk for $5.
…That’s because maybe you got them used or something? Like, name me one retail store back then selling games for $5 just out of the blue. I won’t wait because you wouldn’t come up with anything.
You are mixing used markets with retail prices here. Just stop embarrassing yourself.
Walmart homie. Brand new games.
I’m referring to smaller games that came on a single floppy disk. Remember those?
Crime. Since people hear about it more often they think there is more crime, but in actually overall crime has gone down. There was more crime before 24 hour news not less. You just are hearing about crimes that in the past wouldn’t have made the news.
This is just nonsense. Games were never €70 back in the day, I remember my siblings getting games for €5-10 in the early days.
In my teenage years, games were €40 and gradually went up to €50-55 and then €60 (for pre-order €65). And now €70 standard, pre-order either free or €75.
When home consoles used PCB cartridges, they were. That’s because PCBs are expensive to make compared to optical discs.
Some games definitely were that much. As I said in another comment, I bought Street Fighter 2 for £65 in the early 90s. That was more than most games, but it did happen.
Perhaps in the US but not in The Netherlands.
Yes they were. Nintendo cartridges could be 120-150 gulden at release. That’s 55-70 euro, not even counting inflation. PC games were usually cheaper though.
Can confirm as fellow Dutch. Nintendo cartridges were very expensive.
It was the UK
