What happened to Zelda Week, then turned month? Ah Whatever, i have a bad attention span to actually make a something like that actually happen. Never the less, onto my short rant about the destruction of the one area i am trying to have respect for.
PRICES!
When Ps3 and Xbox360 came out, prices went up for new games to 60$, and that was like whoa, this is a big change. What? Don't remember that? Well i do, and then we got used to it. And now, look at Xbone1 and Need-new-name-station 4, 70$ for a new game. 70! I understand that with new technology that the games cost more to make, but that much more? I originally came to this thought when looking at EB/Gamestops page on The Amazing Spiderman 2, which had front page spotlight even.
Hell feel free to take a look at the page, and if you can't find something wrong with it, then look harder!
http://www.ebgames.ca/browse?nav=16k-amazing+spider+man+2
$35 for 3ds
$60 for wii-U/PS3/360
$70 for X-one/PS4
Now you're thinking probably "Well It IS next gen consoles". Really? You give them an inch they take a mile. Quite frankly this is the kind of thing that allowed the micro-transaction era begin. People not actually caring about how much they spend on a game! I'm not saying you should spend your money elsewhere, by all means i spend most of my pay-check on games. But seriously, game prices will become like gas prices, and they'll keep going and going and going....
Pretty soon we'll end up like the Super Nintendo era where games went for $80! But at the time that was more warranted because cartridges cost more to produce, but even so.
This is the kind of thing that is happening so don't look away, games costing more and more and more, because they are "Triple-A" titles. When i see triple A now-a-days, i think "Day 1 DLC".
The reason people use "PC master race" Isn't only because of our powerful machines, but also we have Steam backing us up.
Minimum wage needs to increase by $10 now... all so we can afford to buy more video games :D
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