Why are games so expensive?

techradar.com — Shops are cutting the price of everything ? except videogames. Are we being ripped off? Wandering into a videogame shop can be a pretty depressing experience ? and not just because it takes four hours to get to the checkout. ?34.99 for Mass Effect? ?49.99 for a console game? Oct 4, 2008 View in Crawl 4