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$60 Games Are Here To Stay

Posted by Zonk on from the damn-you-tantalizing-game-titles dept.

Next Generation explores the price jump for 'next generation' titles, looking into the success of the $60 price point for videogames. They have a copious number of graphs and charts to support their findings: "Even without Guitar Hero II, prices in 2007 are still at historically high levels. In January, fully four of the top 10 games sold for $60 or more. In February, that jumped to five $60 games, and the average rose accordingly. While there were four $60 games in March, they shared the top 10 with two Nintendo DS games which brought the average down sharply. This happened again in March -- the month of Pokemon -- and also in May."

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  1. Inflation by DamnRogue · · Score: 4, Informative

    $50 in 1988 is equivalent to $88 now. Prices are dropping in real terms. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl)

  2. Re:What a Revelation... by mh1997 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, game prices are falling. In the late 80's and early 90's, I was paying US$45 per game, according to the inflation calculators that I found (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl) the price is roughly US$20 cheaper today (at US$60) than then (adjusted for inflation of course).