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The games industry is screwed. [26:11] (youtu.be)

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I spent well over a month talking to investors to get the actual data behind what’s happening to the games industry. I was going to say “enjoy!” but it’s, uh, not great.

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[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hmm when I look it up with this bank of Canada website it claims a game from 2011 that cost 60CAD would be $83 today. I'm wondering if there's other tools I can use to cross reference? Just curious how you got to the $200 number. Maybe I'm wrong.

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh man, 2011... I'm a millennial, and even I was already out of college in 2011. My 'kid' games were $80 USD in the 90s. Here's an article from 2014 that someone made about how insane N64 game prices were.

Star Fox 64 – $79.95 (Source: GamePro #106) - 1997

GoldenEye 007 – $69.95 (Source: GamePro #108) - 1997

Super Mario 64 – $66.99 (Source: GamePro #97) - 1996

According to the CPI Inflation Calculator, $80 USD in 1997 is $160 today.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

It's a different example but Super Street Fighter II for the SNES was CAD$99.99 in the 1994 Sears Wishbook which is CAD$191 in today dollars.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago

I think that you guys may have been kids in different decades.

[–] any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The only way I get to roundabout $200 now is if they are talking about 1983/84, but the NES hadn't even released in NA back then, so that's somewhat unlikely?