>Between 1995 and 2026, cumulative U.S. inflation was approximately 118.5%, resulting in an average annual inflation rate of 2.55%. Because of this, $60 in 1995 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $131.11 todayHow do you answer without spiking your cortisol?
It's simple. I just won't buy them.
>>739732946The real inflation is much higher than that, it's kept artificially low by subsidising the shit out of food.
I want video games (base editions) to cost 100 dollars so devs can get raped and gaped faster than ever before
>>739732946two. more. weeks
>>739732946Games are worth exactly what people are willing to pay for them. My answer is:>Good luck if you plan to sell games at those prices.
Someone post the original deer post with the dramatic text.
I think they should charge 130 dollars for the games then
>>739732946Inflation isn't real
>>739732946Games are an elastic good.
>>739732946Why don't these trillion dollar companies lobby the government to stop or reverse inflation if they want people to buy their products?
>>739732946Charge whatever you please: I will not pay.
>>739732946That red deer stuff was all fake huh.
>>739732946Just move to Fortnite, Roblox and F2P games. Most gamers are already there. It's cheaper to spend $50 a month on microtransactions than buy full priced titles.
>>739732946Inflation is fake made up by capitalists and jews (but I repeat myself). A goat is worth what a goat is worth, it doesn't suddenly change ten years later and you have to hack off a limb and sell that instead of the whole thing.
>>739733073This is true. But the real question is would it be bad for half of the playerbase (the poorest and less invested) to leave?Id say the more expensive the hobby is, the less niggers and shitters are there. You will never see a ghetto thug doing high end photography.
>>739733073discs are made out of plastic not elastic
>>739733214elastic is plastic
>>739732946You would be happier and more productive if you stopped playing games entirely.
>>739732946Cost of living including opportunity.>what did food cost in 1995>what job could you easily get out of high school in 1995? in college?>how much did college cost?>how much did a used car cost?>how much did it cost to fill up the tank?Pic related is Tampa Bay apartments in February 1995, in flyover country they'd be even cheaper
>>739733147You are so close to the fucking truth but cant understand a single concept.Yes, a goat is worth a goat. And will always be worth a goat. Whats loses power is the purchasing power of the dollar. The goat costs what a goat costs. Your dollars are less valuable.It has nothing to do with capitalism, as communism will have the same issues and worse, because when they demand the goat to be sold for less than a goat, as money lost their power, there will be soon no new goats. So in capitalism, you will need more inflated money to buy a goat. In communism, there will be no goat to buy with inflated money.And yes, its 100% a jewish thing. You print more money, you dont have suddenly more goats in stock. It means the money is worth less.
>>739732946It would probably help if a lot of these companies weren't spending $300 million to develop their triple A slop
>>739733034They don't need luck. Companies like Nintendo have millions of brand slaves conditioned to mindlessly buy every new release and tirelessly defend them online for free. Sony used to have that too, but they've been burning their goodwill ever since the release of the PS3.
>>739733214>>739733252PLASTIC ELASTICPLASTIC ELASTIC
>>739732946It's extremely simple. Games have moved on from physical sales with very complex production and distribution chains to digital sales where producing any single copy is so cheap it's basically a rounding error on the bottom line.Inflation might've halved the value of money, but the complete removal of the supply chain from the equation more than makes up for it.
>>739733441digital stores take the same cut than physical stores.
still waiting on my fauci ouchie to cause me to keel over and die of myocarditis or clots o algo LMAO
If it's so good that games cost double what they did in 1995 and food costs four times as much how come consumer income hasn't raised as well?
>>739733328Well, you see, the landlord that promised to fix the black mold in your apartment (there since you moved in) needs to bump up your rent this month because of the economy or something. Trust me.
>>739733516obsessedwe are talking about videogames here
>>739733516>Mentions the vax for literally no reason whatsoeverBot?
>>739732946>buying gameslol
>>739733552>>739733556The OP pic is from a 2022 /x/ meme "Red Deer" that said all vaxxed people would die and turn into fucking zombies or some shit. I don't remember.
I don't know what cortisol is or why 12 year olds think its so funny (not asking either)
>>739732946Games were finished back then. Not drip fed
>>739733503>Don't need to order a certain amount of carts/disc's >Don't need to print a bunch of manuals>Don't need to have boxes with printed art or cases with printed sleeves>Don't need to ship it from where it's manufactured to a distribution warehouse to a retail store
>>739733607Stress
>>739732946Most games aren’t even worth money, or even a pirate. I’m sorry, but you oversaturated the industry far beyond the carrying capacity of us to care, thus given that we have near infinite choices, you’d actually need to pay us to play most of your shitty games due to how oversaturated the market is with slop. Sorry, that the way the market works.
>>739733590nigga that's bambis dad what retard shit are you even talking about
>>739733343Yes, but as goats are bred and more goats enter the market, the growing supply means the value of goats falls and thus the purchasing power of the dollar rises specific to goats.
>>739733627Didn't ask.
>>739733503Sure but the store cut wasn't the only expense back in the physical days. Every part of the supply chain needed to make a profit too, and games had a limited shelf life because there was limited shelf space that needed to be cleared for new releases so losses had to be included in the equation.
>>739733590Meds
>>739732946At least we owned the libs with Iraq, the Recession, Tariffs, COVID money printing, Tariffs 2, and Iran!
>>739733503...unless you own the store in question and are just placing your games there
>>739733590thats a disney movie bro.
>>739732946Video games in 1995 were made by competent white people or nips. I refuse to pay more in real terms for AI slop prompted by jeets and sculpted following Sweet Baby consultations
>>739733328And these were “mid-range” apartments advertised in the newspaper. You could probably get a 1 bedroom shitbox for even less
>>739733378If Nintendo could truly get away with charging that much for games, they would've done so already.
>>739732946Merry Christmas to you all
>>739732946Games have gotten much cheaper but everyone is so fucking broke it feels like the opposite.Utterly BLEAK times.
>>739732946>entire games industry revenue of $3bn in 1995>entire games industry revenue of $197bn in 2025>no price changeReally activates the almonds.
>guys people aren't buying our games>ok make them more expensive>guys people are buying our games even less>make them MORE expensive??? is every single person working at AAA dev studios now completely and utterly retarded now
>>739734034But that's not what's happened, anon. They've gotten less expensive.
>>739732946Two more weeks until clot shots kill 2/3 of the population.
>>739734085>>739733556
>>739734034oh no, you actually just unveiled the next trick of US economics by mistake. Im gonna drop you a redpill nuke so big your ass will bleed for weeks. You see, most people imagine the ideal economic distribution as an O. On the top of the O, a handful of ultra rich, in the middle of the O, the big part of it, the middle class and on the base, the poor people. Ideally most of the population would live in the fat part of the O, the middle class. While poor and rich are limited in quantities. Now pay attention to the revelation.Now what would you say be a worst case scenario? a L? with everyone poor and only a handful rich at the top? not even close. We are in a K economy already. There are 78k rich households already in the us. The rich population expanded so much, the economy can easily rely on them.There is a boom of new rich people. And the world economy can be sustained aiming only to the new rich people.Thats why meat will keep going up in price. Because they will eventually be able to get the same money, by selling less and producing less, only for the rich people. Same with videogames. You are being priced out. They will make games more expensive so only the rich houses can play it.In 5 years with ai, robotics and probably some sort of UBI, social classes will calcify forever. You literally have less than 5 years to gather at least 10 millions, before you are left behind, in the ubi class. And no, with drones being mass produced there will be no peasant rebellion, sorry.
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>>739732946convince me to spend that much on trash like 007 First Light
>>739734465not videogames. we are discussing videogames, obsessed schizo
>>739734465two more weeks
>>739733736Don't think they aren't already easing their brain dead fans into accepting it.
>>739733137What do you think the 5G towers are for?
>>739732946So are prices going to just keep rising forever or does the economy do the occasional number crunch to make numbers look reasonable again?
>>739732946Games aren't worth $60 in today's money, and they weren't worth $60 in 90s money either.Anyways, I just pirate or buy used.
>>739732946the <standard fee> for videogames used to only exceedingly rarely reach 1 million instances collected by the publisher for a gamethe <standard fee> has increased but now less than 10 million sales is considered a failure<standard fee> should have fallen, not risen, the publishers make enough now that more people are paying <standard fee>
>>739734465I’ve been posting since 2011 and this is still the funniest post I’ve read.
Inflation in this context is completely bogus. We've moved away from physical production and distribution lines for video game copies. Software developers actually, unironically, live in post-scarcity wonderland where they can make a thing once and sell it forever with no further accumulating costs.
>>739732946Inflation is a measure of a change in price for a given good over a period of time. That's all it is. It is NOT a measure of purchasing power, or a measure of value, or a measure of what constitutes a "fair" price increase, or any such else. Do not let grifters, bad actors, or uneducated journalists mislead you.
>>739737610Inflation is a devaluation of currency, brainlet.
>>739734924Prices pretty much rise forever until a government decides to create new currency and throw out the old one (Brazil has done this many times). It resets everything but destroys people’s savings which makes it not ideal and a last resort
Inflation and market crashes is how the jew steals from goyim>hard times arrive>the rich can weather the storm>the poor can't, are forced to sell their assets to the rich>devalue currency more and more so that your money progressively gets more and more worthless>make the poor debt slaves who own nothing, while the rich hold all the assets where all the actual value isBuyers market bought at fair prices!
>>739734465The post didn't mention WHICH September thoughVaxxies be warned
>>739734465>This post will be 5 years old in two more weeksBros....
