> For an apt example, could I sit you down at a computer and have you tell me the price of a video game?
You can usually tell pretty easily the difference in (art/etc) resources spent on a big budget title (e.g. Call of Duty) and those spent on a smaller title, like Darwinia or Little Inferno or Angry Birds. You can't tell me that it's a $1 vs $3 game, but you can pretty well tell the difference in the games that expect you to buy them for $60 versus those that expect to be bought for $15-$20.
You can usually tell pretty easily the difference in (art/etc) resources spent on a big budget title (e.g. Call of Duty) and those spent on a smaller title, like Darwinia or Little Inferno or Angry Birds. You can't tell me that it's a $1 vs $3 game, but you can pretty well tell the difference in the games that expect you to buy them for $60 versus those that expect to be bought for $15-$20.