I agree. Theyndont need to be more than $20

You’re forgetting one thing. All those details you mentioned, 99.8% of all humanity does not care or notice any of that. They will listen to AI trash and like it just the same. Also, show me one actually new thing that’s been done with synthesizers that I haven’t heard before, I’d be surprised if you could. I’m just saying, nothing is original. When recorded music first existed in the later 1800s, it was actually new. I’m not arguing nothing is good anymore, I’m saying nothing is new. There’s a difference.

So should games stay at $20? Is that sustainable?

It doesn’t really have anything to do with old music being better, it’s not, I’m just saying with a new song released every minute and billions of people on earth, there is nothing new. Everything sounds like something else, it’s inevitable.

But music is stagnated now because everything has been done, ai makes most pop music, and a new “song” is released every minute. We have far surpassed there ever being originality again.

Hopefully people will still want live performance by a human because that is all that’s left for the arts. Corpos will destroy it with ai slop that normal people won’t be able to differentiate from human creation.

Not defending it, but n64 games were $80 when they came out. And that was a lot then (probably like the cost of 3 eggs today!)