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AAA titles have been $60 since the 90s iirc. The difference now, though, is the addition of paid DLC, micro transactions, etc that historically didn’t exist, so I’d say it’s a little bit of a toss up.

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Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I always saw the higher $60 games were cartridge-based games, while the CD-ROM equivalent was cheaper. When everybody switched away from cartridges it dropped back down to $50 being the norm until around 2005-2006.

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- bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Really? I could swear that the top PS1 games were around $60. Granted this was about 30 years ago when I was a kid, so I could easily be mistaken.
  
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  - Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I stand corrected, thanks for the nostalgia
    
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  - TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Shout out to my millennial homie!
    
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waybackguy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah I remember Donkey Kong Country cost like $60 back in 1994 when it first released. That’s like $100 today adjusted for inflation. Nowadays DLC, the cloud, hardware and the like adds to it, although hardware has always been pricey to an extent.

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