Game costs concern us all, but many are focused more on the individual cost of games, than hat is really causing the huge issue. OXCGN takes a detailed look at why gaming is costing you and I so much these days, when compaired to even as early as 2005.

Come check it out, well worth the read, and pass your thoughts on as well. They will certainly welcome them, your thoughts that is . . .

Many gamers consider the retail costs of games and consoles being the main culprit of their fiscal stress, and one could argue that is the case, especially here in Australia where we seem to always pay more.

In fact, game retail prices have remained reasonably stable for over two decades now, and in most cases are even now lower than the initial influx of games two or more decades ago.

There is more to the problem than just the retail costs of games.

As Australian Game Informer editor Chris Stead pointed out in his study article to uncover the high costs of gaming here, retail games prices are reasonable all things considered, and there is no evidence to show price gouging or exploitation by either retailers or publishers, much to his dismay (Chris Stead in Issue#5 of Game Informer Aust, pgs 12 – 17).

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