Do you think games are getting expensive ?

wow they be almost 70 $ now plus other stuff you have to buy on the game lol

Yes and no. If you must own every AAA title that comes out, you may spend up to $100 to $120 per game between the game itself and all the DLC. However, you also have a lot more viable options for really good games that aren't AAA games. It used to be $50 for a top shelf game or $10 for some crappy shareware. Now you have all kinds of great indie games that range from $5 to $50. Plus with the proliferation of digital distribution makes it easy for game companies to put older (and older might mean less than a year old) titles out for less money on sale, Humble Bundles, etc.

-Byshop

Nope, theyre slightly cheaper now than what they used to be. Especially if you consider inflation.

Everyone who grew up with Nintendo will know this. Nintendo games used to be painfully expensive in the 90's, and although theyre the same price now, inflation makes them actually cheaper.

Well, as Byshop said, if you want to keep up with all the latest AAA games spanning all the different platforms - then yes it's hella expensive.

But these days I'm not gaming much. And I often find games that are 2 - 3 (or more) years old to be just as good if not better than new releases anyway.

No. Very cheap compared to when I was having to save up for the Atari 2600 games.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/the-real-cost-of-gaming-inflation-time-and-purchasing-power

"An NES game in 1990 cost, on average, about $50. That’s $89 in 2013 money. Your $70 N64 cartridges in 1998 would require the equivalent of $100 today."

I'm on PC, so I can't comment for other platforms, but games have never been less expensive for me. We have so many different places to buy them, so many different people making them, so many different kinds of games (independent, AAA, big budget, small budget, short, long...etc).

I mean it wasn't too long ago a game like Senua's Sacrifice would have cost us 60+ dollars and at less than 10 hours long we'd have complained despite it being a really refreshing, genuinely unique gaming experience; in fact, a different Ninja Theory game got a lot of heat for that (Heavenly Sword) very thing. But they were able to price it at a reasonable 30 dollar price!

And you know, it's not just that, but I am able to experiment with my purchases more as a result of these prices: I'm playing games like Hyper Light Drifter, Kerbel Space Program, Halcyon 6, Terraria, Factorio, and so forth and these things offer up to hundreds of hours of gameplay. I never would have touched these games if they were full price.

So no, gaming has not increased in price, in fact I would argue it has reduced in price. I would also argue that there is more value to gaming now as well.

Yeah I remember taking my hard-earned money when I was a little kid back in the early 90's to the store and buying a game and they were 50 dollars back then. I remember bitching when the price went from 49.99 to 59.99 but honestly things are better now.

Everything get expensive these day, man. Everything...

Yeah everything goes expensive especially steam game.

SNES games had the pricetag equal to $99 in my country when i was a kid, remember i paid $99 for Mortal Kombat 2 back in 1994 :D Games are much cheaper today than before. Because of inflation those $99 in 1994 would be exactly $164.58 today

They did have an increase true but they are also less expensive than cartridge games.

DLC aren't mandatory and more often than not now some compagny do release a version with all the major DLC with it ... like a year later for half the price you would pay so yeah.

Do you think games are getting expensive ?

No, but I don't buy them all because time is the precious factor to me. And many games are long investments and simply not all games are worth my time_

No, I remember paying up to $80 for some N64 games back in the 90s. And then if you adjust for inflation, games are actually much cheaper nowadays than what they used to be in the 90s.

If you factor inflation into the equation, not really. We should probably be paying more, but that's not how the market works. They have to sell at a price that people are willing to pay, and for a long time that has hovered around the $50-$60 mark. Publishers know it's harder to push up that initial price point, hence the reason for so much DLC (including Season Passes, which are effectively paying for a promise of content), and the increasing inclusion of micro-transactions in games that you've already paid for. Limited editions are, of course, the exceptions.

Go back to the late 1990's and go pick up some N64 games in Canada.

I remember seeing Ocarina of Time on sale for $99.99 CAD.

That's $115.77 USD in today's money. The price of games haven't gone up at all in the past 20 years. In fact, they've gone done based on how much more they cost to make relative to their budgets back then.

No, I think that they are priced pretty reasonably considering how much they cost to make these days. I remember paying $100 for Street Fighter II and $115 for Chrono Trigger, both games for the SNES.

Apart from the odd new release, I find myself waiting for games for two reasons:

1- i got a shit load already on my PS4 and XB1 to play

2- they'll be cheaper.

Although I want FIFA 18 for release day but the cheapest I can find it is £53 :(

It seems like they have gotten better.