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.
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.
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.