Have video games become expensive now?

VanHalbgott@lemmus.org to RetroGaming@lemmy.world – 42 points –
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I always saw the higher $60 games were cartridge-based games, while the CD-ROM equivalent was cheaper. When everybody switched away from cartridges it dropped back down to $50 being the norm until around 2005-2006.

Really? I could swear that the top PS1 games were around $60. Granted this was about 30 years ago when I was a kid, so I could easily be mistaken, I just remember my parents bitching about them being expensive lol

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I stand corrected, thanks for the nostalgia

I think "around $60" is still accurate. They're above $50, and they still say that's the price "*after coupon".

In fairness that looks quite late on in the lifecycle of PS1.

I remember games coming down in price later on, like they were around £45 and came down to about £30 for new ones.

I remember the greatest hits (green sidebar label) ones being about $25-30

Yeah, they were called Platinum over here. £20 each. Ideal for a younger me, who could never justify full price games and frankly wanted to play the older ones first anyway.