{"id":31937,"date":"2025-06-28T22:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/has-video-gaming-become-too-expensive\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T22:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:39:33","slug":"has-video-gaming-become-too-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/has-video-gaming-become-too-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Has video gaming become too expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">With new video games reaching record prices, some gamers say they fear their favourite hobby is becoming unaffordable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;I research games more now to manage my money,&#8221; said Kady, 21, a lifelong gamer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Aspiring professional gamer Dirk Casinillo added: &#8220;Everything makes you wonder whether it&#8217;s inflation or just developers wanting to make more money out of these games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Nick Poole, CEO of UK Interactive Entertainment, which represents more than 2,000 games businesses in the UK, said game developers were &#8220;always looking at ways to manage the cost of production&#8221;, which he said was &#8220;significantly higher than 10 years ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><i id=\"video-edited-by-erin-lister.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 fhKUCU\">Video edited by Erin Lister.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cjrlndzz90yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With new video games reaching record prices, some gamers say they fear their favourite hobby is becoming unaffordable. &#8220;I research games more now to manage my money,&#8221; said Kady, 21, a lifelong gamer. Aspiring professional gamer Dirk Casinillo added: &#8220;Everything makes you wonder whether it&#8217;s inflation or just developers wanting to make more money out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[5206,483,1264],"class_list":["post-31937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-expensive","tag-gaming","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31939,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937\/revisions\/31939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}