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by 2OEH8eoCRo0 3 hours ago
GTA III was $50 in 2001.
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About 90$ adjusted for inflation, using this tool:

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=50&year1=20010...

Which would be $94.29 in today's dollars.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 launch price was $69.99. in 1994.

That's $159.89 in today's dollars.

And that was only half the planned game until you bought Sonic & Knuckles with Lock-On Technology.
And this is why I roll my eyes when gamers complain about the cost of games these days - they have never been cheaper.
Yeah if it has the amount of content people are expecting I'd say it'll be well worth 80 bucks
Especially considering the price of e.g. Mario Kart World.
What a disappointment that was. The open world aspect was neat but the whole game could have been an indie production tech wise.