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2OEH8eoCRo0
3 hours ago
GTA III was $50 in 2001.
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baby_souffle
3 hours ago
About 90$ adjusted for inflation, using this tool:
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=50&year1=20010...
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crims0n
3 hours ago
Which would be $94.29 in today's dollars.
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justinsaccount
3 hours ago
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 launch price was $69.99. in 1994.
That's $159.89 in today's dollars.
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MarioMan
3 hours ago
And that was only half the planned game until you bought Sonic & Knuckles with Lock-On Technology.
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crims0n
3 hours ago
And this is why I roll my eyes when gamers complain about the cost of games these days - they have never been cheaper.
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nharada
3 hours ago
Yeah if it has the amount of content people are expecting I'd say it'll be well worth 80 bucks
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Topfi
3 hours ago
Especially considering the price of e.g. Mario Kart World.
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newtonianrules
3 hours ago
What a disappointment that was. The open world aspect was neat but the whole game could have been an indie production tech wise.
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https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=50&year1=20010...