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Game prices should probably go up, but now isn’t the time to do it

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What we pay now for a new, shiny AAA video game at the end of this console generation is pretty much what we paid when the Xbox 360 was new.

I can’t say much else has been that stable over the last decade and a half. In the same time span, for instance, the cost of a cinema ticket has almost doubled.

So has my weight. Time leaves a mark on us all, I guess.You’ll hear some suggest that this is why a video game price rise is dramatically overdue, and I’ll admit it right here, at the outset: I agree.

Though prices have remained static, development costs have not, and as modern games continue to astonish us, we can’t expect studios to keep innovating if we’re not prepared to fund it.With the cost of making games reportedly doubling with each.

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