PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for May

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for May

toxic-inferno11d ago

I don’t like paying a lot for games, but frankly, this needs to happen if the industry is going to improve.

Back in 2005, brand new releases of PS2 games usually cost £39.99 in the ***, with some going up to £45. Adjusting for inflation, that’s between £70 and £80 today.

Then consider that in 2005, many games were being developed by teams of around 40. Nowadays, for games of the same ‘tier’, you’re looking at 500+.

In addition, game development in 2005 tended to take around a year. Many of the big development teams were producing annual releases, or at least one game every 2 years. Average development time now is 3-4 years.

Working all that through, you can estimate that a single game as I’ve described above ‘should’ cost FAR more than £70. A quick bit of rough maths:

£40 × 10 (increase in employees) × 3 (development years) = £1200.

Obviously, that’s unrealistic, as basic economics tells you that market demand is one of the greatest driving forces behind pricing products. But it still makes you think…

Thank GOODNESS we’re not paying more than £80 any time soon…

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