Quote Originally Posted by White Knight View Post
Actually, he does get it. He said a candy bar has almost doubled since 1998. Lot's of things in America have. Yet games gave stayed the same or around the same price for years. That's something to be grateful for. Hell, some 2600 games in 1980 were $40. How much was the original VCS in 1977? Hell, 30 years later, the Wii was $249, the same price.
That's irrelevant. It's completely a red herring. If someone thinks that games are overpriced, how does it change anything that candy bars have increased at a faster rate? Or that college costs have increased at a faster rate than either? You might FEEL better about it, but that obscures the fact that it doesn't change a thing about the original assertion. Just because they've had a merely slower rate of increase (or even no increase) doesn't prove anything. So what if the VCS and Wii cost the same amount? Maybe they're both overpriced.

Now, with that said, I can't be certain they are overpriced. There's a magic intersection between profit margin and sales which maximizes the benefit on both sides, but I don't know what that point is.