"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games

https://lemmy.world/post/29415177

"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Super Mario bros 3 was $59 in 1992

Borderlands 4 should be like $180 accounting for inflation

At $80 it’s not a terrible price.

Don’t get mad at me about our money being worthless.

I just wanna play games too.

I’m not sure where you’re numbers are coming from, but the inflation calculator I found through Google says that $59 in 1992 is more like $135 today. That’s still a significant increase of course, although I wonder how much publishers benefit from not needing as much physical distribution. After the initial investment selling digital keys on a third-party storefront like Steam should be pure profit, no?