Is gaming really getting more cheap around you, or is the difference in price change with other things like housing only relative?
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Is gaming really getting more cheap around you, or is the difference in price change with other things like housing only relative?
>entertainment/distractions get cheaper
>important shit doubles in price
I wonder why this is.
if only the graph designer could afford education so he doesn't make a linear graph out of exponential numbers
What the frick are you talking about
-50% is a halving of a cost which is equivalent to a +100% increase, but it's just as tall as a +50% in the graph. It's dishonest.
>-50% is a halving of a cost which is equivalent to a +100% increase, but it's just as tall as a +50% in the graph. It's dishonest.
American education
Really shows how much govt. subsidies can frick things up.
>Prices of games go up
>Every game is still being made for the ps4 first
HMMMM SOMETHINGS NOT QUITE RIGHT...
Prices of games have only went up 17% over the last 23 years. That's below inflation which is around 70% for the USA for that time frame.
>television 100 percent cheaper
this can't be true otherwise they would be free
>Blind Asians can't read a graph
Many such cases
Could you explain what they mean by "-100%" then? This is only since 2000, so I really don't get what they are referring to.
The line doesnt actually hit the 100% mark you fricking moron
I'm not buying televisions for 1 dolar either.
It passes 98%, and that doesn't align with how I remember TVs being priced.
Yeah, like 5 % remain. So that 400 $ tv of today cost 400k $ back then, which it didn't.
5% = 1 / 20
400 $ (5%) --> 8000 $ (100%)
There, birdbrain
TVs didn't cost 8000.
The source uses some weird metric that takes a products "quality" into account
So when something stays the same price but gets better its considered "cheaper" in this graph
So like TVs maybe cost half but they have a built in shitty tablet and 4x the resolution so its "90% cheaper" than before or some shit
>The source uses some weird metric that takes a products "quality" into account
Yeah it's extremely subjective if not outright bullshit.
>>>Yeah, like 5 % remain. So that 400 $ tv of today cost 400k $ back then
OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEEEEEEE!
If something loses 100 percent of its own price then it is free. Explain how this doesn't make sense.
You are learning something about charts posted on Ganker.
My favorite part is the cost of cars somehow being the same, despite the worst cars possible at least costing $17,000.
>Television -100 %
Where are those free TVs?
Mine was. So was my ps5. Free baby, oh yeah.
When they say technology gets "cheaper" they mean you get more advanced products for the same amount
Also, vs. inflation. A PS2 at releae is slightly more expensive than a PS5 at release in real dollars.
But now you have to buy them way more often due to planned obsolescence.
Those phones from 2000 would still work today.
That isn't a fair comparison unless I can still buy and use the older versions.
>unless I can still buy and use the older versions.
No? A $1000 Iphone is obviously much much much cheaper than the $4000(without inflation) 1973 motorola brick
That's not what we are talking about, my comment is in relation to cases where they've adjusted the apparent value based on improvement in quality.
e.g. TVs increasing in resolution for the same (adjusted for inflation) price doesn't mean their relative price is lower if the older type TVs aren't available.
If better technology that used to cost more is now the same price then the product has become cheaper.
If I am forced to buy stuff for the same relative price then the products haven't become cheaper, because they take up the same percentage of my budget.
>percentage of my budget.
We are talking price not affordability.
Better technology that used to cost more is now the same or less than its predecessors so its cheaper.
Are you just ignoring the context of this thread and the posts?
>you can own a 80 inch TV but you have to live in a tent with no healthcare because libtards let in 2 million illegals a year
T-thanks....
Notice how all the imported bug products get cheaper but anything made domestically went to shit
Surely this is sustainable yup
>is gaming getting more cheap
No, it isn't. Inflation index doesn't count for actual peoples wages so it goes straight into the trash.
>Have fricked up teeth
>Go to prison, be ward of state so they HAVE to take care of me
>Get free healthcare in prison, they fill cavities, replace a tooth and remove wisdom teeth
>Find out some inmates get free sex change surgeries and other expensive ass shit
>Get out
Frick, if I ever get cancer I am going back.
Video games are a cheap hobby.
>cars prices haven't changed
bullshit, I wanted to get a car finally this year just o find ouyt that used ones are almost the same value as new ones (before) and news are either non-existent or ridiculously expensive, and les'ts not even talk about EVs which is a fricking meme.
My grandfather has dementia and it costs $2,000 a week for some fat Hispanic to sit in a chair next to his bed while he sleeps.
Everything else is more expensive so gaming is a very high value hobby since you can get way more hours out of smaller purchases.
Spend $10-15 at the movie theater(add more if you want popcorn and a drink), or spend $10-15 on a Steam sale and walk away with a handful of games you can play over the next month.
The only thing of equivalent value is a streaming subscription, assuming you're watching a shitload, and the only thing cheaper is going to a public space like a park or the library.