On: Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More

[oneeyedpigeon]

> AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years

SNES games were $50-60 and that was thirty years ago!

[bityard → oneeyedpigeon]

Pretty sure I paid $80 for some RPG or another (possibly Chrono Trigger) right after release back in the day.

[magila → bityard]

RPGs were more expensive than other games due to a combination of high development cost, high cartridge cost (RPGs took a lot of ROM storage), and relatively small market (action games were more popular).

[smoldesu → magila]

Factored in with translation costs (or god forbid an included manual) and it's crazy these things even made it to the US in the first place. No wonder NES/SNES RPGs are in such short supply.

[code_duck → bityard]

Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System was $70 - in 1988. Adjusted for inflation that’s about $180.