Anon Babble doesn't know jack shit about economics so I have to ask you guys. Why are games getting more expensive...

Anon Babble doesn't know jack shit about economics so I have to ask you guys. Why are games getting more expensive? I thought it was because of inflation but according to Anon Babble inflation is fake.

all anyone has to do is band together and stop buying this shit. prices will fall faster than ever before.

but to answer your question.

first its the "housing crisis"

then it's "covid"

then it's "inflation"

then it's "tariffs"

then it's...

don't you see? its all a ruse. regardless of the reason or whatever they call it--profits need to keep increasing and this is their flavor of the month. one bad quarter and the whole house of cards collapses.

It's inflation, just plug in your numbers into any inflation calculator. $60 in 2020 is 74.14 in 2025.

What i don't get is why people always need more. Obviously you need some to sustain a good lifestyle, but nothing beyond that brings additional happiness. Why is the market trending towards "all for one" instead of the other way around?

Anon Babble doesn't know jack shit about economics so I have to ask you guys. Why are games getting more expensive?

Right now? Tariff impact on supply chains e.g China,South Korea, japan, EU

What i don't get is why people always need more.

the you are dumb

Obviously you need some to sustain a good lifestyle,

ok

but nothing beyond that brings additional happiness.

oh, you are stupid. I find it does you should try it someday when you have money. I finding love and get great enjoyment from my libraries, horses, antiques, art, gemstones, coin and jewlery collections, I heven have video games collections with thousands of games. I have an entire romm decicated to art, another to antique weapons, I have a home cinema ad behind the screen a library of 5000 bue rays and DVDs, I have a games room with a thousand gamesa and consoles and black leader couches. I would love to tell you it all sucks and I'm, miserable but you know what? I fucking love it
fucking
love it
And I hoarde land, stock and forestry too and fuckimg love walking around it with a gun and no fucking plebs bothering me

Simple, because the consumer is willing to pay these prices. Any other reason is cope. Same thing with PC parts.

Costs are going up, nobody is telling them they can't, and people buy them. This is late stage capitalism so get used to it.

sounds like you're distracting yourself with all that. you're prideful, and projecting stupidity.

asking question does not mean you're dumb, you nigger

inflation is real, the money supply goes so each dollar is worth less. but for vidya the main reason is outsourcing. when you hire thirdies, everything has to be redone 2 or 3 times

What i don't get is why people always need more

Because they are empty inside/fundamentally low value males, and it's like a high score they use to feel better than other males.

Why are games getting more expensive?

Mainstream video game budgets are sky high nowadays (a great deal of it goes into the marketing, obviously), consumers are dumber and easier to manipulate than ever and publishers want to squeeze as much money as they can out of those braindead consumers for their low quality skinnerbox games.

There's also been a massive push by publishers to normalize 70 or 80+ dollar games which has been very successful. You have subhuman retards unironically defending spending up to a hundred dollars on 8 hour long games and mocking any who refuse to do so as being poor.

It's not primarily inflation, they just use that as an excuse, like they will now with tariffs. If it was inflation, the AAA baseline would be over $100 by now. Physical manufacturing costs matter even less now that physical is being phased out on console and is completely dead on PC. It's mainly a combination of overbloated development/marketing costs, and just because they can. What are people going to do? NOT buy the next yearly installment of FIFA, Madden, and NBA 2K? Gamers can complain all they want about the increased costs, but publishers know that they'll buy it no matter what.

i thought no one was buying these new consoles anyway?

Switch 2 will probably sell 20-30 million units in its first month. Xbox is dead in the water.

because the value of money lowers years after years to the point where it's not noticeable from year to year, but over decades it results in the unsuspecting population to become poorer at the expense of those who are aware. which have their net worth in the stock market appreciating following the devaluation of money, debt accelerates this; the only known way out is bitcoin because gold isn't fit to be money anymore, it's just a physical metal.

so yes that's inflation but the citizens are taught that inflation (getting poorer) is good and needed, they are slaves and you have a choice to follow them and be one, or to act for yourself.

they will be $100 sooner or later. prices don't grow organically, they grow upwards depending on the greed of those who set the prices.

Why are games getting more expensive?

inflation, cost of labor, lower sales due to bad economy and bad games (which ironically results in higher prices to fake growth numbers).

It's almost like money is worth less.

Why the fuck aren't wages going up is my question

probably because most business owners don't have any stake in finance and the stock market and even them are getting poorer

Same senpai but what I love most of all is larping about it on an image board website for fags

bro, I remember when gamecube got to a 100$. Now all these consoles are like 5 years old and still 500. And no games kek.

they aren't if you are not switching jobs

more

More goods or money? Most people live paycheck to paycheck in the US at least, so the latter is obvious. Though they also don't try to live within their means most of the time. Honestly parents really failed at teaching their children how to budget these last few decades.

Games aren't getting more expensive as a category of product, AAA games are getting more expensive because the cost of production for them has gone up.

the value of labor is decreasing faster than prices are inflating

It's inflation. Microtransactions are also largely because of inflation btw. Vidya prices stayed the same for so many years while everything else steadily got more expensive because devs made up the difference with microtransactions and other shitty practices like that.

In recent years, it got bad enough that prices went up anyway.

It's pretty obvious. If people are willing to spend $60 on the base game and $30 on downloadable content, then there's almost nothing stopping AAA studios from raising to $90 base game with $60 DLC.
Think about it you dork, there's literally nothing stopping them from doing this. If you think their sales are declining, doesn't matter, the titles aren't being built for long-term health - they're being built for milking as much as possible from the proprietary assets. All it takes is 1 company to start doing this, chain reaction, done deal.
By the way fuck the game industry, I'm currently working on a game that will put mainstream slop to shame. Mark my words.

Games were priced 80 dollars in the 80s and 90s. Adjusting for inflation that would be 140 right now. Taken into account that most AAA/AAAA titles that have multi hundred of million being thrown into marketing and advertisement. Before 2010 most studios in fact were not outright bought by massive corporations. This is a massive problem because the game development budget is often tied to the company portfolio, if microsoft invests 200 million into a single project, what most game studios cant achieve. Then it requires 200 million in sales to break even. Often times with modern games, you arent paying the developers who make it, but instead your paying the HR department, marketing, CEO salaries, customer support. So much more overhead thats not necessary

By the way fuck the game industry, I'm currently working on a game that will put mainstream slop to shame. Mark my words.

t. dime a dozen Unity/Unreal Engine indie dev

What's it called? Where will I find it? I'll buy it.

I'm not currently accepting early supporters yet. I'll let you know when the fanclub is ready though.

fucking destroyed. have a (you)

Anon Babble is a bunch of poorfag kids who can't into economics. Video games are a rich man's hobby, now shut the fuck up and play Fortnite on your shitty laptop, zoomer.

squeeze. Pump and dump, at an industrial scale. They're pushing for a new crash that they can control and build up from.

Inflation is one aspect of it (as are rising development costs and industry bloat). But if it were purely inflation, then the effect would be equally felt across all gaming sectors. It is not. This is a console problem.
The cost of developing a console platform is defrayed through game publishing fees, which are calculated as a percentage of MSRP, throughout the life cycle of the platform. If game sales aren't meeting expectations, then Microsoft has to increase margins to make up the shortfall. In more blunt words, consoles are shrinking.

according to Anon Babble inflation is fake.

FUCKING KEK

Specialization of labor. That's why you major in one thing and we don't go around trying to make our own toasters from scratch, we buy a toaster from a company that specializes in it. Society thrives this way.

Production has become so specialized and automated and corporations so monopolized that it essentially turned into a dozen monoliths that produce practically everything for society. To put it a different way, advances in automation and technology essentially result in these corporations owning an army of infinitely profitable robots that produce everything. The only way to grab a share of these profits is to own a piece of this automation, which is buying stocks.

Fiat is a gigantic scam - see . Bitcoin is valuable because (even though holding your net worth in stock is infinitely better than fiat) the entire market is fake and gay since corporations (via banks) and governments literally print money to fund whatever they want. This results in extremely inefficient use of labor and overinflated value of stocks. Bitcoin, pure scarcity, is the true measuring stick of whether or not you are doing productive labor: can you make a profit in bitcoin? Buying stocks does not really "fund" the economy, humanity can continue to do all useful work with or without the concept of dollars; you are quite literally NOT doing any useful work for society by putting money in stocks (a task that only involves opening robinhood on your phone). Bitcoin solves this by being the ultimate form of savings, if anyone has excess capital, they can now put it in scarcity itself rather than throw a dart at some overvalued company that prints its own money while hoping they pump out more slop.

I'm doubtful on the stock market (even a bitcoin denominated one); on theory you own a share, in reality I feel employees especially newer generations will make that a liability. it remains a centralized system with uncertain outcome, not a guaranteed profit. bitcoin may give more meaning to work. saving in bitcoin could make the owner of those robots less wealthy regardless, if they don't work, because those who work will be paid in real money.

corporate bonds on the other hand may be the future of stocks. a place where in case of need of liquidity for a new project, a business will search for funds and those who put the money in will get returns. I don't know if there will be a marketplace because a human brain will need to evaluate the project. or maybe there will be some AIs or scripts "sniping" new listings with legally binding contracts and the faster will win. maybe there will be that as well as OTC/in person business deals.