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I do recall games being 50 to 60 back in the day. Never had an Atari and we pirated all our TRS-80 games, but for the NES and SNES they were that price. You're right about inflation making them much more expensive in today's dollars.

Today the market is a lot different, so many great titles available on Steam and other platforms. Charing 80 to 90 is obscene. There are some AAA titles for PC that start there, but they usually are discounted within 6 months.

Charging for a demo is crazy!

Another thing I saw is if you own a Switch One title you have to pay a 20 dollar add-on if you want to upgrade it to take advantage of Switch Two's increased performance. That seems kind of sus as well.

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Charging for a demo, no - that and a game should be a pack-in item.

Market saturation does have a lot to do with prices today, they should be lower - but when half your team is blue-hair donothingniks, things cost a lot.