Re:'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales
by yareally on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:02PM
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With DLC and other bells and whistles tacked onto many games these days that would have normally been part of the core game, the base price quickly inflates to be more in line with inflation.
Re:'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales
by _frog on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:46PM
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Though it should be pointed out that GTA V has launched without any DLC to speak of. I'm sure they'll do it eventually as they did for GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption, but the DLC for those two games was more akin to an expansion pack.
Re:'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales
by incision on Saturday September 21, 2013 @01:07AM
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>"With DLC and other bells and whistles tacked onto many games these days that would have normally been part of the core game, the base price quickly inflates to be more in line with inflation."
1.) Assertions about what "would have been part of the core game" are certainly popular, but not necessarily true or provable and certainly not universally applicable.
2.) Standard new game price held steady at ~$60 through three console generations prior to common place DLC. If inflation had been taking its toll we'd have been looking at $85 games prior to "horse armor".
Box prices for video games have been remarkably static. New games were selling for $60 in 1993, just like GTA V is today instead of the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $97.