Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has sounded off on increasing game prices, saying he questions why people are complaining about $80 games when that price is actually a “steal” in terms of what’s being offered, at least for some games. He said this in an interview with Critical Hits Games, stating that many products in regular life have gone up in price over the years, so it was only a matter of time before video games did as well.
“I think it was almost too late for the video game companies to start looking at the pricing structure,” he said, as reported by GamesRadar.
In the ’90s, many new releases sold for $60 USD. Adjusted for inflation, that’s around $80 today, which is the price that Nintendo and Xbox will charge for some games this year. Sony, for its part, has said it might increase prices, too.
