Totally agree with most of the comments above, I spend enough time gaming that the cost is very reasonable, as a hobby it's probably one of the cheaper ones to have, I could go paint balling or Airsoft but the cost of the BB's paint balls would be as much for a a couple 1 hour games as i spend on one game for the Xbox.
I've already played 50 hours of BFV and at £55 for the deluxe edition ts cost me £1 and hour, as that goes on it will be less, I know I'll get around 3/400 hours out of just this game alone.
The amount of hours I put into some games they would be a bargain at £200 never mind £40.
When I was a lad in the 70s, an Atari was £120 with a Space Invaders cartridge costing £29.99!
This was a time when the average house price was about £10k
Needless to say I always dreamed of having an Atari but Santa somehow misread my letters and I ennde up with a Yo-yo or similar //static.avforums.com/styles/avf/smilies/facepalm.gif
I remember the days when I had the SNES and would spend £60 on cartridges for it! Now that was expensive.
I rarely buy games on release nowadays, unless it’s something really special that I’ve waited ages for.
Just bought Far Cry 5 digitally for my X for £27.50. Now, if I get 70 hrs out of that it works out at 39p an hour. I see that as a bargain tbh. As others have said, it pays to be patient and shop around.
And the rest. I think I paid about £90 for the Super Famicom import of SF2.
I remember paying £80 for US Zelda - Link to the Past and the same for Soul Blazer. I also remember that Super Star Wars was about £65.
Games now are really good value for money especially when you consider the production values and time investment they offer. I mean £40 or so for Fallout 4, AC Odyssey, Zelda, Witcher 3 etc., which all offer upwards of 100hours is awesome value and cheaper than a night out.
its only expensive if you want stuff the day of release 6 months later everything is half price or less.
i think ive spend less than £60 this entire generation baring the cost of the consoles
GTA V being the exception. That held its price for a long long time!
I'd wait for the price to be reduced, rather than get a game on the day of release.
Case of point:
FIFA 19, on release £50 for standard edition.
On sale a few months later: £30 for 19, or wait a few months later still to be reduced even further.
One question:
How much does, for example, EA Sports, lose if the price of FIFA was not high on day of release?
thing is games have hardly gone up in price in decades. i remember paying exactly the same amount for games 20 years ago with snes ps1 etc. they havent gone up with inflation over that entire period
I am that old data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
I moaned about £5 - £10 cassette games on zx81 and zx Spectrum, then Atari STFM disc games data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
If you have fast broadband you could try the under €5 section here
Best Games under €5
I have bought video software of the site but no games yet.