An NES game in 1990 cost, on average, about $50. That's $89 in 2013 money. Your $70 N64 cartridges in 1998 would require the equivalent of $100 today. Heck, the $50 PlayStation 2 game you bought in 2005 is worth $60, the exact price of a typical retail game in 2013.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/the-real-cost-of-gaming-inflation-time-and-purchasing-power
your forgetting dlc and micro transactions though, inflation ain't going to save it than
Also the thing is. from ps1 to ps3 era, games got cheaper prices actually dropped by the gen. all I'm saying. anything before ps1 era was also fairly pricy in terms of consoles. Like most electronics videogames actually got cheaper in terms of production
I didn't forget anything. You said:
I miss them times when games where only 40$ brand new
That hasn't been the case in 30 years, if ever.
And DLC has been around forever, it just had different names. They were called expansion packs. And yes, inflation does make a difference. Like the quoted section of the article says - a $60 game in game in 1990 is the equivalent of an $89 game in 2013. That's closer to $100 today - or two $20 DLC packs.
As for microtransactions - if you don't like em, don't use em. I've purchased maybe one, ever, and it was mostly an aesthetic thing that I just really wanted. I doubt any of us are really playing any games where microtransactions have any real effect on our gameplay experience.
And games do generally go down in price over time. That's what the Complete and GotY editions are for. Hell, with Miles Morales you can get Spider-Man, and all of it's DLC for like $20-30. At original retail that was still about that $100 total spend I just talked about. I'd say that price went down. Hell, Horizon: Zero Dawn is regularly $10-15 for the base game and DLC.
It has though
mario galaxy 2 and skyward sword where just 40$ on release and obviously all the other first party titles aswell. wii ps3 xbox 360 era. galaxy 2 released in 2010, other wii games 2007? so 10 to 13 years ago
even though inflation came prices got cheaper.
ps2 gamecube era games where 50$ on release. ps1 n64 era was 50 - 80$ a pop
So prices got cheaper, in ps1 to ps3 era even though inflation happened
50 to 80$ in ps1 n64 era, to 40$ in wii ps3 xbox 360 era when money had less value that's definitely a decrease in price.
Only I reason why i replied is because you said 40$ games never happened and it sure as hell happened. videogames actually got less pricy with each gen at a certain point. low end was even 30$ at times and that was just a couple month after release from some other stores for big titles like galaxy 1 mario kart etc.
if it was 45 at some stores it was rarity and overpriced.
and let's not ignore nintendo selects wich got even lower at just 20$ for big titles like mario kart and galaxy.
And those prices where from the bigger popular stores that charge the max amount so it could be cheaper aswell. 60$ was not the normal before ps4 wii u era. prices have increased by 50% in this era before ps5 happened.
Inflation is fine, but considering microtransactions and tons of dlc exists it's not great.
