According to the "official" stats. A $60 product in 2017 would be $73 today. And that's being generous. So it's probably more that people have less money to spend on leisure in general.
All the free money the government gave out in 2000-2022 in the form of direct payments & most importantly, unprecedented massive "unemployment" payments.
Not everyone got it, of course. That's government for you.
Yeah, according to inflation game prices should have actually risen quite a lot since the N64/PS1 era, but they didn't. It's only now that everything is going way up since the 2020 money printing extravaganza that it's becoming really relevant.
According to the "official" stats. A $60 product in 2017 would be $73 today. And that's being generous. So it's probably more that people have less money to spend on leisure in general.
People's pay did not get updated to match that dollar devaluation.
It did. How do you think inflation happened?
All the free money the government gave out in 2000-2022 in the form of direct payments & most importantly, unprecedented massive "unemployment" payments.
Not everyone got it, of course. That's government for you.
Inflation is a bitch, especially when most of that inflation was food prices/etc which you can't just... Not buy.
Game prices going up is fair, provided the game quality isn't shit
Yeah, according to inflation game prices should have actually risen quite a lot since the N64/PS1 era, but they didn't. It's only now that everything is going way up since the 2020 money printing extravaganza that it's becoming really relevant.
These fuckers have been trying to nickle and dime consumers for years with shitty MTX. They can shove the inflation meme up their ass.