funny cause most commercial games back then were 50 bucks. Some, like civ were 60. Adjusted to inflation that's kinda nuts.
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It is pretty wild that a 128 MB SNES cartridge in 1992 was selling for the same price as something like Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018.
i don't think snes games ever got bigger than 4MB.
most of that cost was for the actual cartridge. when games went to cd's atd then to download all the production costs just went away. so the profit margins skyrocketed with the xbox 360 generations, and they're only now starting to come down to 1990s levels.
My bad, but whatever, you get the idea. The size difference between either and a 120 GB game is basically the same.
Not sure where you pulled that 128MB figure from…
The largest games ever released on the SNES were ~48 Mbit, or about ~6MB.
Heck, even the N64 was limited to 64MB ROM sizes.
They may mean megabits, of which there are 8 in a megabyte. Some games advertised how large their ROMs were as a measure of the value of the game. So 128mbit would be 16MB, which I certainly believe could have been a thing.
128mb SNES??? were they puttin hard drives in those things or what?
It's 1980 and a reasonable price for a new [what would later be called] AAA computer game is $50.
It's 2000 and a reasonable price for a new AAA computer game is $50.
It's 2020 and a reasonable price for a new AAA computer game is $50.
...
It's 2100 and a reasonable price for a new AAA computer game is $50.
Nah, they're trying to make $70-80 the new "reasonable" price for an AAA game.
Key word: "trying."
People are paying it, so it is working.
Something something buying power?
Look it buys so many atoms. You aren't stealing atoms are you? Turn out your pockets
I bought Factorio way back when for $20. That $20 has wasted more of my life than any other $20 I've spent.
Its in competition with the (i think) $10 for Stardew and the $15 or so for Minecraft. This guy is right.
Man... I remember when Minecraft was only $5.
Oh man, I remember buying stardew for my other half, and her enjoying it so much I bought it myself.
What about buying the same game for 3 or 4 times for $20 because I've enjoyed hundreds of hours playing it and the dev is a gigachad who developed it entirely by himself, pouring his heart and soul into it while continuously providing free updates?
Stardew was 15,wasn't it tho
Me but with Slay the Spire. Can't wait for Thursday
What's on Thursday?
Ask me about LoomTM!
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
How appropriate. You fight like a cow!
That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen!
Wait is that where... Of course that's where I started saying "that's the second biggest [thing] I've ever seen!"
i met a guy once who could hold his breath for 10 mins. we kept locking him up. but he escaped and fed cheese to our lactose intolerant God. what a total douche
Bad filter. Raw pixels rules!
It does look filtered, doesn't it? I saw so many versions of it when looking it up. For example:
Video adapters had different capabilities back in yon day.
Kind of crazy that they had to do the art again for each video card type. Like 3x the work.
These specific images may be recreations but typically it’s the same artwork with more color because the adapter can do more. Or shading colors or things like that.
Yeah, but none of them looked like that. (source, played this on an Amiga 500).
VGA, remastered and EGA?
Silksong took so long to come out even games from 1990 were making references about it
I would phrase it differently.
Whenever you go to buy (or rent from gamepass or something) an expensive AAA game, stop for a minute to consider all of the banger indie games you could buy for the same amount of money!
And yet Return to Monkey Island is $25 on Steam. Those bastards!
Seriously though, it's a worthy sequel. Worth checking it out if you haven't already.
The sea of thieves tall tale adventure for monkey island was great too! Made me want more Rare 3d adventure style games like that
Right ye be, matey! Right ye be!
I think I paid CAD$60-70 for Shadow of the Beast for the Commodore Amiga in 1988.
Now, it did come with a t-shirt and a pretty cool poster
That's $50 USD or just shy of $70 Canadian in 2026 money. I usually don't spend more than $30 Canadian thanks to steam sales so I'd say we're doing pretty well.
I'm hooked on you baby, but the sea keeps us a part, and there ain't no eye patch big enough to cover up my broken heart.
i only pay for video games that is <=30-60 usd.
Tbh most of my video games i play nowadays dont even reach 30-60 usd.
i praise my "avoiding these types of video games" list for it.(does not include that my brother played a game that is on the "avoiding these types of video games")
Well now that music is gonna be stuck in my head