Video games used to feel like an affordable way to have fun, but these days, between rising game prices, expensive consoles, and paid DLCs, keeping up with gaming can cost a lot. Do you think video games are becoming too expensive, or are the prices justified by the quality and effort that go into making them?
Are Video Games Becoming Too Expensive?
100% yes. $70-$100 for a game is insane. $100 would get you a physic disc, and hundreds of dollars worth of physical content such as a cool helmet you can actually wear, a giant pipboy or w/e from fallout… you can actually wear. A giant dragon statue you can put up for display, and so much more! Now it’s $70-100 and you get the temporary rights to play that game on a system that they can remove at any time. You do not even own the games anymore, so what are you paying for? To lease out the game? That’s insanity to me lol
On Oct 16, 2026, Sherlock Bones said:
100% yes. $70-$100 for a game is insane. $100 would get you a physic disc, and hundreds of dollars worth of physical content such as a cool helmet you can actually wear, a giant pipboy or w/e from fallout… you can actually wear. A giant dragon statue you can put up for display, and so much more! Now it’s $70-100 and you get the temporary rights to play that game on a system that they can remove at any time. You do not even own the games anymore, so what are you paying for? To lease out the game? That’s insanity to me lol
I agree. However, I remember my mom buying Sonic & Knuckles for me for $70 in 1994. That's probably over $200 in today's dollars. Some Nintendo games were $80 in the early 90s too.
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