Thumbs up Donnie. “Inflation comes for us all.” -Matt Truer words were never spoken.

It truly was, an Ah-Ha moment...

That's my sleep paralysis demon

it is worse on the communist party playstation. where as xbox game pass u get more bang for your buck

May have to turn into an r/patientgamers.

Agreed. Games should be in great shape on day one.

Exactly, you still won’t get $70 worth.

@@quinto6 Really? How? When a company launches a product it should 100% work from the day it launches. Let's remember Batman: Arkham Knight and Cyberpunk. They should work without glitches or like how Microsoft launches new versions of Windows or patches that do not work 100% and force the users to be beta testers. Once you launch a product you should not use your clients as beta testers.

60-70 dollars is still too much especially if you’re in developing countries. The last games I bought on launch were The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsuishima.

That's why Sony and Microsoft are pushing for a digital future they control the prices and take in a bigger precentage of a game sale

That's what this video misses is the fact that some people get money back if/when they sell it. Also you can get games on sale for cheaper than retail. Then the price comparison changes.

Don't forget the day 1 update that "fixes" games which force players to be online so Sony and Microsoft can keep track of u and take your date

Not to mention if you're budgeting in every way you can think of then digital WILL take longer to download, install and get the game going than physical. GTA 5 pc? about 2 hours install on pc, to download the same thing about 8 hours on my connection. To install ps4 version? Maybe 15 minutes. Why? Because the majority of data is there on the disc already then you just need to grab patches. And this was on the stock mechanical hdd. Yes the internet gets faster and faster, and there is ALWAYS the trend of rates being dirt cheap and then skyrocketing when your trial period is over. But do you really think those 1 GB+ connections are going to stay cheap when the reality is the average family (much less the average person) doesn't NEED that fast? They're just giving you back things you need (like no data caps) That they took away (and charging you if you went with lower speeds to get it back) Truth is when the rate hikes come (and if not the hidden fees like line and modem replacement) for the fiber connections come they'll probably be a lot more costly. After all you're using a lot closer to top of the line hardware.

@@JoJo-oc8zf that sucks

The Economy

they need to remove online subscription like why can’t i play online for free when i pay for wifi bill and i payed for the console

@@spooktaculeryt2169True, but PC’s also exist😂

Yeah pc all the way, initial cost is high, unless you dont mind gaming on low settings, but its well worth it in the long run.

Yep, and don't forget with a lot of games going digital they cut out the retail middle man that takes away a chunk of their profits along with the cost of logistics of getting the product to the stores no longer being in play either.

Bro games are also getting more expensive to make, because their are a ton of people that want their games to feel cinimatic rather then just like a game. Which is causing the companies to have to pay more for developing the games.

well said 👍

exactly the profits on games are massively scalable, since most of the cost is in designing, the cost of making and distributing disks is basically pocket change and with all the games being direct download, they just need to pay a penny for the server's operation. So all the cost is basically flat, and selling more is just profit

Plus many games are using Unreal Engine. And because many developers already know how to use Unreal Engine it usually takes less time to release a game. The less time you spend on making a game the more money you save. Plus it saves on training cost because if a game uses a proprietary game engine. They need to train people how to use that game engine.

@@firefox1033 This may be the dumbest thing anyone has ever written in a public forum .... All of our IQ's just dropped 10 points for having read this absurd nonsense.

@Leonard Greenpaw excellent point on packaging! These days sales of digital are through the roof and in time physical media will slowly disappear.... (even more money saved). At least in old generations we got a box, a cart and a manual... all this cost more than physical media today.

@Curtis Grant another very good point. Game engines like unreal have made development even easier

but in the same time, it's seems bad for someone who wants to play a specific game later, since games come and leave the service, or it might seems that way because I'm a data hoarder and I like the feeling of truly owning my games (locally and in my HDD or SSD all the time)

it's crazy because they're in their 30s, so they are the middle aged gamers lol

I'll be 46 in 3 weeks. I've seen things...

I think this has less to do with age and more to do with your specific personality. I'm 41 and I personally feel that having a digital library is far easier to deal with. I understand that there are benefits to having physical media, but for me that isn't enough for me to be willing to go out and buy physical media.

I'm in my early 30s. While I'm a tech nerd and digital is convenient, I still buy games in physical format because I like to display my favorite games as home decor

I am only 29, but I do agree with this. I have a strong preference for owning physical copies of games. I will buy digital if there is a good sale or a game I cannot obtain physically, but otherwise I prefer having an actual collection. Plus, digital copies can be revoked from servers at any given time, which can revoke access to said games permanently (unless in some cases where it is installed prior to revoke - depends on game though). So, different perspectives. $70 still hurts, but inflation and all that makes it inevitable. I will just wait for sales. :)

He also does this on podcasts he listens to. He’s just now getting to the reveals of the PS4 & XB1 on the Giant Bombcast.

But you have access to about 1200 games

$93.49 CAD is $69 USD

I paid almost 120 bucks in todays money for Super Metroid back in the day.

Is internet expensive where you live? I have 100/100 fiber, Disney+, HBO and Prime. I total less than fifty bucks.

I give the benefit of the doubt to a handful of political critters here, and there having to fight through the swamp trying to do the best they can, but I agree the vast majority of them are screwing us over, no matter the political party they belong too.

What movie and prices do you pay? I'd rather shoot myself then pay that for a film.

@@Hateious Agreed to that, which is why I've not been to a movie theater in years, and instead upgraded my home theater setup, and just rent the movie for a couple bucks if it's not on a free streaming service, or the ones I already pay for like Peacock, and KZfaq TV, then me, and my family just make our own snacks for way cheaper while sitting on our comfy couch instead of hard ass chairs in the theater with other people's screaming kids, etc..

It may cost more than it used to, but the market is orders of magnitude larger and the profits are way more than they used to be. Don't defend greed.

@@TroublesomeOwlbut that’s not on them. Don’t forget that they all first and foremost still a business. If they are seeing dips, they’ve gotta find that back somehow. Keeping the price that same for 3 whole generations has been ridiculous to be honest.

@@MrDereksings it is about wringing every last possible cent out of every paying customer. Of course they are a business, but there is ethical business and there is scumbag business. unfortunately the entire game industry is scumbag business. The sooner paying customers stop justifying to themselves that it's good they are being ripped off repeatedly, the better, but man, people just refuse to admit they are being swindled at every turn. I wouldn't care about the $10 US price rise on base games if : 1. They came out finished, working and not bug ridden 2. They didn't sell bullshit micro transactions on top of the base price (if its not free)

@@TroublesomeOwl you nailed my exact argument. Thank you.

Yeah that's true, but you also have to remember N64 carts had various IC's, and memory chips, and back then that kind of storage was freaking expensive for what little space the carts had, and Nintendo had little control over the price of those chips even buying them wholesale. These days physical games come on DVD, or Blu-Ray which cost pennies to stamp out, or in the case of Nintendo flash carts that are cheap for GB's of data storage. So yeah the prices really should not be going up, and more so with digital games where they cut out retailers that take a chunk of their profit away.

Prices of everything are rising because our dollar is getting lower and lower compared to the us one

@@Merkantoine Yeah

Yeah, and so many games that I wouldn't even have looked at. I usually only play a game once or twice, and then won't touch it for like... a decade, if ever. And those games, I try to get a physical copy of.