Fantastic

I mean technically median income has gone up about 80% in the US since 2005. While inflations CPI over that same time span is around 70%. You can look at

https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/2005?amount=100

to calculate rate of inflation and the BLS to cover median income 2005 vs 2025.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/wkyeng_07202005.pdf

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/median-weekly-earnings-were-1196-in-second-quarter-2025.htm

That obviously doesn’t take all factors in cost of living into account (particulary housing). But what you said is basically incorrect and more importantly, completely irrelevant to a moderate increase in price to a consumer good for the first time in over two decades.

You’re just so incorrect with logic so flawed in so many aspects there’s just nowhere this conversation can go. What you’re saying will be upvoted, that doesn’t make it even remotely accurate, just ideal/popular.Good luck out there.

80 dollars in 1980 is the equivalent of 330 dollars today~ish. You’re not grasping the inflation aspect I’m pointing to. When looking through that particular lense, video games are cheaper now relative to historical context than they’ve ever been. Not to mention literally every consumer good increases in price consistantly to match/overcome inflation. Video games are WAY behind every other consumer product I can think of in that regard. This is especially true when talking entertainment products.

Yeah when I have an opinion like this I don’t care about the downvotes.

A new game was 60 dollars when I was 8. Im 31 now. Inflation puts the pricetag around 100 bucks if they stayed roughly the same cost. If gaming is unaffordable now its been that way since at least 2005… There also wasn’t a robust indie/cheap game scene to the tune of 10s of thousands easily accessible back then. Be annoyed about a price increase I guess but it’s not like it’s unfair or unaffordable comparatively.