More games released in 2009 than in 2008, barely

Yeah, that's larger than the Xbox library, the Dreamcast library, the Saturn library, the N64 library...

That's cause the industry's growing in popularity. I remember back in the N64 days, you actually had to be at the store (toys r us for me) at the release date or close to it because they often sold out their initial shipment and wouldn't get another for a week or even two.

Also for people who complain about games being expensive nowadays, I remember forking over at least $70 for ocarina of time and a few other N64 games. Some even ran $80...

the current gen CONSOLE systems are slightly more than the year before, but yeah, I'm sure there's a bunch of shovelware in those figures--especially the Wii, DS, and PS2. I don't mind the decreased shelf space, I have a hard time keeping up with all the AAA titles alone for the PSWii60....can Squeenix delay FFXIII a little longer please?!

Heck, the Virtua Racing port for the Genesis was 100 bucks. 32X titles averaged 70, some of Square's SNES releases were 80, etc.

Accounting for inflation games should actually cost close to $100 a piece right now.

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

Is everyone forgetting that, GAMES ARE ON CDS NOW! When they were on cartridges alot more when into creating them. It took more expensive materials, and took longer.

Then there is the Demand factor, people usually buy 1 every month, and there are alot more people buying them. For example, part of the reason cars cost so much to make is because you buy one every 5-10 years, so it's price is highly inflated past cost, if everyone bought a new car every month. They would be no more then a few hundred past their cost to make (which is a few thousand) anyway...

On Topic: I wonder if this includes Multi-console releases. A Thousand seems like ALOT seeing as I only played IDK 20 games this year. Even for people who play 100 games (2 games a week) they barely scratch the surface...plus they didn't take in account all the digital games, for the XBLA/PSN, Steam or iPhone. Man there are alot of games.

Have you pre-ordered Guitar Hero: Fallout Boy and ft. over 20 other of your favorite bands?

Bobby's solid gold swimming pool isn't going to fill itself with champagne, ya know.

I know better than to mess with a man who could have Tony Hawk show up to my house and have him beat me to death with a Tony Hawk: Ride skateboard peripheral.

If this was to occur, I would first admit to Tony Hawk that I will be going into the beating with negative expectations, and as such I probably won't give the beating a fair review.

@MrSpaceCowboy,

eh...good joke but a weak tie in.

7/10

As king of excessive posting, and leader of the 'stiquers', we greet you.

What the hell, I never got any greeting!

No one greeted me when I started commenting.

It's a little late now though.

Well, he greeted us first...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.

Happy?

@Dark
not really. cut has been made and it is deep. the blood like my emotions are flooding out off control *runs off crying* D':

:P

Hey, I'm a Dark Lord of the Sith. See if I care that you are in pain.

Hint: I don't.

As the overall top poster around here, i greet you too. Christmas is a time of peace, even here.

No ego stroking here :cough: khan & bradwart :cough: ... welcome to the 'stiq

I was looking through steam the other day. They have tons of good titles for the under $10 section. I'm probably gonna buy whatever I can if my laptop can run it

Yeah, it's a shame there's no good games on those systems.

The DS has some great games, I'll have you know.

Dementium, Worms Open Warfare 2, Prof. Layton, Moon, NINTENDOGS.