Capcom’s president and chief operating officer has said he thinks game prices should go up.Haruhiro Tsujimoto made the …

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    Development costs now are about 100 times more than they were during the Famicom era, but software prices haven’t gone up to that extent," he explained. "

    Number of copies sold has gone up a lot.

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      To be fair, that’s not always the result,

      But it also doesn’t take into account that they already used micro-transactions to offset keeping the price of games where they were 20 years ago. I’d imagine they have no intents to stop with those if they raise the price of games.

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        I’m not sure Capcom is the best example of that. Their only IP I regularly play is Street Fighter, so I might have a limited perspective on their games.