What exactly do you consider high priced? $60 for a game that you end up playing for 10 hours is only $6 an hour. Compared to the price of a movie ticket, that's pretty cheap entertainment.

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You can try to rationalize it all you want, bottom line is people don't have money to buy $80 games these days. Those people aren't going to the movies either.

I bought a rug that I've gotten years of value out of, should it have been thousands of dollars then? The idea that time used is how you measure value is flawed.

Edit: look what popped up on my feed, so looks like it's not just me

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/former-blizzard-boss-says-hard-090054442.html

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I mean, yeah, I never said it was a perfect basis for measuring the value of games or anything else in the world. It's just one metric, and by that measure it's a pretty good value for time of enjoyment. Congrats on the rug bro.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

As far as games go, it’s still a lot. I’ve played some $20 games for hundreds of hours. Not a dealbreaker, and I’ll gladly buy the game if it looks fun. On the other hand, the games generally being expensive is not a selling point for the console.