Just feeling that no matter where i go i'm hearing stuff about, "Man, i shount have spendt 600NOK (85,5$)on that game! it was over in 8 hours!". But seriously, take Cod 4 as the perfect example, ok, most people buy it for the online part. I havent been so fortunate due to a crappy ISP provider. but i bought it, played the singleplayer and it was SO worth it! It was damn short, but oh man, so many epic moments, and it wins on the same points as the movie Crank, for those of you who have seen it. It just never stopts throwing action in your face untill its over. So lets put a price on constatnt entertainment.

We have one movie and one game, CoD 4 (wich i spendt about 9h on (yeah, i got stuck by the stupid bumpercars :P )
and crank, at 1h27min to be exact. Crank's fullprice was 179,90(25,6$) and cod 4 was 599,90(85,5$).
I will do this small calculation in dollars for you:

Cranks price: 25,6, divided by playtime: 87minutes gives you 0,29$ of entertainment per minute.
CoD4's price 85,5 divided by playtime 540minutes gives you 0,16$ of entertainment per minute.

SO as you can see, a "short" videogame is alot cheaper than a fullprice movie. the game has to be 4 hours or shorter for it to be more expencive. Think about that before you start complaining about not getting your moneys worth in videogames.

And by the way, i find the shelf of games that i actually have completed alot more appealing to look at than the ones i havent completed.