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Stuart · 11-03-2006, 23:49

The justification I read (a long time ago now, in a long-defunct computing mag) was that the costs of development of business software and games were very similar, but business software sold to a smaller market.

I don't think that holds true now. It's not unheard of for game development budgets to be in the millions of dollars, yet they still cost around ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£40 (which is *still* a lot of money), and a lot of homes have a PC of some sort and a lot of families would happily use something like office to help with the running of the home. The market for business software is much larger than it was.

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Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Software Prices The justification I read (a long time ago now, in a long-defunct computing mag) was that the costs of development of business software and games were very similar, but business software sold to a smaller market. I don't think that holds true now. It's not unheard of for game development budgets to be in the millions of dollars, yet they still cost around ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£40 (which is still a lot of money), and a lot of homes have a PC of some sort and a lot of families would happily use something like office to help with the running of the home. The market for business software is much larger than it was.