The Value of an App

A conversation I had today with Kyle:

Me: This game Orbital is really cool!

Kyle: Yeah, that’s a fun game! How much did you pay for it?

Me: A dollar.

Kyle: A dollar? That’s not too bad.

Then I thought about it for a second: why do we put so little value into these games? A game like this two years ago on another gaming platform would have been just as fun but would be going for $10 on Xbox Live, and we would have been more than happy to pay the price. Now we complain about games that cost more than a bottle of Coke. How did this happen?