Why are games so expensive?

Shops are cutting the price of everything – except videogames. Are we being ripped off?

GTA4 is the most expensive game to date, with an estimated budget of over 100 million dollars. You dont recoup that overnight…

Games are costly, and the obvious reason is that they're expensive to make. The days when industry-defining hits were the creations of bored teenagers hammering away on home computers are long gone. Today, a games studio is more like a film studio, with huge teams spending years on a single project. Budgets in the tens of millions aren't unusual, and that means games have to sell an awful lot of copies just to break even. The overwhelming majority simply don't.

Im a real fan of video games, so i dont care spend my money in games... in what kind of hobbies do you spend your money?????

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