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I get why people are acting shocked at Sega saying they may up game prices to 70 quid/dollars, but I'm also old enough to remember brand-new SNES/Mega Drive games retailing for about 55/60 quid.

That was almost 30 years ago now.

God I'm old.

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llewelly
llewelly
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I spent 15 years of my life looking at the prices of new video games and thinking "I will never be able to afford that kind of money for video games"

then I got a job in the video game industry.

and *then* I could afford them, but I didn't have time for them.

then I had the bad luck to work consecutively for a few video game companies that went up in smoke, and I was back to being too poor to afford new games.

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Wil
Wil
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I still struggle to comprehend that any game is more expensive than the £9.99 I paid for Horace Goes Skiing on the Spectrum in 1983!
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John Bull
John Bull
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@Wil even that's 30 quid, adjusted for inflation!
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Dario Landazuri
Dario Landazuri
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Some people were up in arms over Nintendo setting the price of Tears of the Kingdom at $70.
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Alex
Alex
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SNES were always a fiver or so more than MD in my experience: £25-£40 for a MD and most SNES stuff was £45. MD stuff was bizarrely cheaper than some new NES releases too. Been trawling C&VG archives recently to find the bundled MD I bought from Special Reserve, and it brought a lot of memories back!
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BlackXanthus
BlackXanthus
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to be fair, £70 is (sadly) in line with inflation of the costs of production of the game. Providing it provides more than 7 hours entertainment, then it's still good value (at roughly £10 p/h of entertainment)
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Connor Cadellin
Connor Cadellin
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I read an article a while back breaking down historical game prices against inflation. In real terms it's been about the same since 2005, after years of games getting cheaper. They would cost hundreds of dollars today if they were sold at the same real terms price they were in the 70s.
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