• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    AAA titles have been $60 since the 90s iirc. The difference now, though, is the addition of paid DLC, micro transactions, etc that historically didn’t exist, so I’d say it’s a little bit of a toss up.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah I remember Donkey Kong Country cost like $60 back in 1994 when it first released. That’s like $100 today adjusted for inflation. Nowadays DLC, the cloud, hardware and the like adds to it, although hardware has always been pricey to an extent.