Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I’ve seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It’s always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it’s been a thing.
Even more dumb is that sales are stupidly frequent so why even bother trying to pay $70 anyways besides FOMO.
$70 cartridges have been around since the SNES days.
Just because they existed doesn’t mean they were the standard.
But it was the standard for new ‘AAA’ games for the first couple months of release.
For how long?
I’ll admit I didn’t start buying new games myself until around the original halo release.
Halo was actually the first game I bought with my own money. It was $60 2 days after release. The next game I bought brand new was call of duty 3. $60 the day after release.
As I said before the only new games I’ve purchased that cost more than $60 were the special editions of the base games. And it’s not like I wasn’t buying top name games. Borderlands 2 $60. Zelda skyward sword/tp/botw $60. For honor $60. Halo 2 broke world records for most anticipated media and it’s release price from day one was $60.
The standard for new games was $60.
I dunno, I seem to have misplaced my Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Game Prices by Week. :D
Just pointing out that back in the day it was not unusual to have the most desirable games cost $70 for a while. It wasn’t special editions / GOTY stuff - those type of things didn’t even exist yet. So I’d imagine whoever is downvoting you is an old curmudgeon like me that lived through the Dawn of Video Games like I did, and remembers this as not being uncommon. Hell, even normal NES games were $50 or so. I remember paying that much for Final Fantasy when it came out. Once you add in inflation, that’s an expensive game!