If you go back in time w/ inflation, they were vastly more expensive. In the 90s and 2000s I ways paying 40-80 dollars a game, in today's money that's 100-200 bucks. Today when I buy a game I'm paying like 10-30 dollars in 2026 money. I bought a PS1 in 1996 for $250, in today's money that... $500. Same price as a PS5... which is what I paid for a PS5 two years ago.

I just think the lot of you are whiny and entitled, you all seem to think you should have a brand new console for $100 and AAA games should be $20 on new release. If you wait a year after release they usually go on sale for 20-30 bucks anyway. But why pay for anything when you can just pirate everything?

Then you rant about how PC gaming is so cheap, but yesterday people were talking about how the gaming PCs they wanted were now 3000-4000 dollars.... that's 6-8x what a PS5 costs. I have never seen this magical $1000 or less gaming PCs people talk about on here. I work in IT and a base level office PC is $1200-1500, and the last gaming PC I helped someone build was over $2000 for a very low/mid spec build. I gave up PC gaming 15 years ago because graphics cards were more than price of an whole gaming console, and my budget for a PC was always under $1000, so graphic cards were not even an option.

I have a ps5 and a switch 2 and they are both amazing machines and the games great and worth every penny. PS4 was probably the greatest console I ever owned in terms of the quality of games and how little they cost.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

They were making games from scratch back then and also paid multiplayer was never justified.