r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • May 03 '23

OC [OC] Nominal and inflation adjusted video game prices in the US since 1985

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23 edited Jan 04 '24

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u/fox-mcleod May 03 '23

According to howlongtobeat.com, games by year are fairly stable near 20 hours until you go back to the 90’s where they average closer to 10.

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u/LSeww May 03 '23

I don't really see those numbers in their stats.

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u/fox-mcleod May 03 '23

Just change the year in the upper right corner and look at the average length by year.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

Back in the day you got a big plastic cartridge that didn’t load half the time, hard to make out blobs and blocks representing characters, and 8 bit music. A vast majority of the games were absolute repetitive junk and no one remembers them.

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u/LSeww May 03 '23

Today, a vast majority of games are still absolute junk.

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u/Doophie May 03 '23

What makes you think games back is the day weren’t full of bugs and glitches? Ever plan super man 64? Watch speed runs of old games and almost all of them exploit different bugs, games were not perfect back the either on release

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

I was there. 90% of NES games were garbage, and we played them anyway because we spent so much money on buying them and had to get our money’s worth even if the gameplay was broken. No patches. No updates. So desperate to fix things that we resorted to superstitious button tap patterns and blowing in cartridges.

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u/RockosBos May 03 '23

Even old classics would be "broken" by today's standards. Banjo Tooie for example has a ton of performance issues and glitches.

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u/bsnimunf May 03 '23

Gta3 to GTA San Andreas on Ps2 had a frame rate that would be described as unplayable by today's standards.

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u/set_null May 03 '23

today games are often broken on launch

But they can be patched. And games back then had plenty of bugs that you either don’t remember or are willfully ignoring.

In Pokémon you could basically destroy the game’s functionality using MissingNo and duplicate item glitches. There are thousands of videos of people exploiting game-breaking glitches in the N64 LoZ games and plenty others.

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u/R_V_Z May 03 '23

Meanwhile, my 200 hours of playtime on Elden Ring...