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Microsoft says the 2-3 year development cycles of big-budget games are over (www.axios.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If games will take so long to create, we will probably also see price increases. They will have to fund that development time in some way. I think I do prefer the games like Skyrim where they did take their time to develop the whole world with a broad storyline and many small things that you can do, instead of rushing out a game in a year or two that has no replay value after playing the main story once.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think we are already seeing price increases on many games that are starting at $70 (USD) these days. I don’t think we’ll see another increase for quite a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And the thing about price is, people in the 70s were paying $40 for Atari cartridges. Do you have any idea how much money that was? The $40-60 standard has been around for a long time now. In the SNES era some games were cheaper, but really big RPGs could cost as much as $60 and that was more like $120 today.