If games will take so long to create, we will probably also see price increases. They will have to fund that development time in some way. I think I do prefer the games like Skyrim where they did take their time to develop the whole world with a broad storyline and many small things that you can do, instead of rushing out a game in a year or two that has no replay value after playing the main story once.
I think we are already seeing price increases on many games that are starting at $70 (USD) these days. I don’t think we’ll see another increase for quite a while.
And the thing about price is, people in the 70s were paying $40 for Atari cartridges. Do you have any idea how much money that was? The $40-60 standard has been around for a long time now. In the SNES era some games were cheaper, but really big RPGs could cost as much as $60 and that was more like $120 today.
If games will take so long to create, we will probably also see price increases. They will have to fund that development time in some way. I think I do prefer the games like Skyrim where they did take their time to develop the whole world with a broad storyline and many small things that you can do, instead of rushing out a game in a year or two that has no replay value after playing the main story once.
I think we are already seeing price increases on many games that are starting at $70 (USD) these days. I don’t think we’ll see another increase for quite a while.
And the thing about price is, people in the 70s were paying $40 for Atari cartridges. Do you have any idea how much money that was? The $40-60 standard has been around for a long time now. In the SNES era some games were cheaper, but really big RPGs could cost as much as $60 and that was more like $120 today.