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Article #709871Re: Do only pirates reduce sales hence causing damage to PC Games?
From: Flo Irian Schaetz
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:40
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:40
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And thus spoke Zaghadka... > You don't do consoles, but a Genesis cart in 1996 was $29.99, an XBox 360 game > now is $59.99. Compare that to the price inflation/quality increase of PC games > and I think you'll see why a combined console/PC dollar amount is not as > meaningful as it might seem at first blush. No, I don't think that games have become much cheaper. I remember buying games for me C64 for aprox. 90 DM (deutsche Mark, would be perhaps 45 EUR). Old magazines list Sid Meier's Pirates for aprox. 90DM, so I don't see much higher prices there... The prices have not risen more than inflation would suggest. But the content of the packages has become smaller :-) Today you need to buy a collector's edition to get a printed Map - bonus items were more "normal" 10 years ago - but perhaps that's just nostalgy :-) Flo
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