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Along with all the great games available, like Animal Crossing, many gamers also consider the Switch to be a more budget-friendly option. The Nintendo Switch is a popular option for a lot of gamers, and it’s not difficult to see why. I don't like games with a thousand different sequels. I like buying DLC because it gives me extra content with games I love and own. In retrospect, it's ridiculous how much I spent on gaming as a kid when you take into account inflation and what you get now vs. I definitely think we have it good compared to how things used to be. It's hard to do a direct correlation because the game industry has changed so much over the past 30 years. While I bought platformer after platformer in the 80s and 90s, now there are games such as Little Big Planet that have infinite available stages. For example, Boarderlands provided a compelling single and multiplayer game from the get go, then provided 4 different DLCs.three of them being excellent additions to the game. World at War is considered a joke because of it's multiplayer patch. I bought a ton of platforms back in the day as well.most of which were rehashes of the last in the series. Well, if you want to put it into perspective, I paid ~ $70 a pop for Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Turbo Edition, and Super Street Fighter II on the SNES. Of course there are stores that'll get you games a little cheaper than these prices, but I'm referring to the usual advertised price from the typical non-discount mainstream stores for the most part because it's hard to compare to the discounted prices when they vary so wildly from title to title! Certainly the general trend seems to be that in the 5 years since release, 360 games are, on average, a bit cheaper now. Major releases are still usually higher, and Call of Duty tries to sell at £44.99 because Activision are a bunch of profiteering twats, but then, supermarkets in the UK Sold MW2 at £28 on release night so it shows it pays to shop around so you can avoid the Call of Duty tax if you buy it. I've noticed XBox 360 games used to be £39.99 or thereabouts as standard on release, but nowadays they seem to be closer to £34.99 a lot of the time, sometimes only £29.99. I've never historically been much of a console gamer, although did own a few consoles I never bought more than a handful of games for them until this generation.

At the start of this century they seemed to all pretty much go up to £34.99 as standard, but in recent years the trend has reversed, and £24.99 seems to be common for new releases, sometimes even lower - £22.99 or so. I remember in the 90s paying £40 for some games (I paid £44.99 for Warcraft II as it was the cheapest I could find it at on release!), usually though they were around the £29.99 mark with the odd £34.99 game. There are multiple ways to sell your old console games, and the competition in the market causes prices to fall quickly." But to be fair, DLC isn't factored in.' He also points out all the different ways that we can now access games: you can buy a game used, rent a game, or play certain online games for free. Adjusted for inflation, we're generally paying less now than we have historically.

'Retailers had more flexibility with pricing back then - though they've consistently maintained that the Suggested Retail Price was/is just a guide. 'Yes, some N64 games retailed for as high as $80, but it was also the high end of a 60 to 80 dollar range,' he told Ars. says that the N64 launch game pricing only tells you part of the story.

we tracked down a press release putting the suggested retail price of both Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 at $69.99. They found that while in some cases the sticker price has increased, it generally hasn't outpaced inflation, making 2010 a cheaper time to be a gamer than the '80s and '90s. The Opposable Thumbs blog scrutinizes the common wisdom that video games are too expensive, or that they're more expensive than they were in the past.