12th May 2024, 9:36 PM
(10th May 2024, 1:44 PM)Weltall Wrote:(10th May 2024, 11:17 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
$70, when Tendo City was still new, had the buying power of about $38, which was less than any AAA game of the time would have ever sold for, at launch.
How much are more expensive movies being sold for? How much did whatever the definition of AAA games sell for back then? Is my Tendocity rewards copy of Kirby 64 one that's that expensive?
I bought FF7 for $40. As for what "inflation" is, keep in mind the recent year or so of inflation is artificially generated by raw greed and doesn't represent the natural flow of inflation. It skews the results a little.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)