Quote Originally Posted by Bojay1997 View Post
Actually, considering inflation, games are cheaper than they were a decade ago even at full MSRP. A $50 game in 2003 is the equivalent of a little over $62 in 2013 dollars. Games are much cheaper than they were in the 1980s and 90s where I can recall spending $50-$60 for NES and SNES games. That's over $100 in today's dollars. People just are looking to always get things cheaper. There's nothing wrong with that, but it largely killed the music business and turned touring into the only real viable source of revenue for recording artists and so now you have outrageously priced tickets for concerts in many cities.
With technology if you have to take inflation into account to justify that something is a good deal today then it's really not. Every other type of technology gets cheaper as time goes on, except for games which tend to stay around the same price.

Compare how much it costs to buy a new laptop today and one 12 years ago. You can get one today for around $1000 give or take, 12 years ago $2000-$3000 was normal. A new flat screen TV today costs less than similar ones 5 years ago. Computer storage gets larger and cheaper all the time. These are the things consumers think of with anything electronic or technology based. They don't care about taking into account inflation, just actual listed prices. Paying $60 for a game today when they paid $60 for games 20-30 years ago doesn't sit that well with most people, that's why people tend to trade in or sell their games when they're done with them rather than just keeping them in a basement like old toys.