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Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN (www.ign.com)

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Capcom president Harushiro Tsujimoto claims that the prices of video games need to increase to meet ballooning development costs.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, he's right. Game prices are the same 60-70 dollars they've been for 30 years, but nothing else has stayed the same price that long. With inflation, a game should be around 200 dollars.

Super Mario Bros 3 came out in the last half of 1988 and costed $50 dollars, or around 127 dollars. It also costed about $800,000 to develop, which is about $2 million today.

Nowadays, it costs around $80 million (about 40x) on average to make a AAA title that costs $60 (about half). This is why all these games have cash shops and battle passes and paid dlc and whatnot: they need to make up that extra cost somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I can understand woth this information companies wanting to charge more, but I feel like standards need to be higher and refunds guaranteed. They can't ask us to spend 100's of dollars on half-complete, buggy messes of games AND also want to charge for DLC and have micro-transactions.

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