The best piece of this that I'm sure you've left out is the increase in games prices is a direct correlation to the "cable tv corporations" telling them they make x amount of dollars per hour of "entertainment". When game creators realized people would pay more for entertainment it just seemed to be an intelligent business move. Now the people have realized they were being taken for a ride by cable companies, you pay for a 20 min show get 10 mins of advertisements(cable companies receive pay for these). So not only were they picking peoples pockets hiding that they were getting double paid for everything you watch, while also insisting they had to charge more to show you more channels or shows etc.