It pays to be a patient gamer. I'm sure the $5 steam sale version of Cyberpunk 2077 5 years from now will be much better than the $60 release day version.
The landscape around sales seems to be changing.
Specifically Square Enix and From Software are putting their games on sale extremely late or only lightly discounted.
Final Fantasy 7 and 8 (21+ years old) are still 13€, Sekiro (1.5 Years old) is 40€.
I waited 3 years for Dark Souls 3 (mainly because I didn't care enough) to be on sale for ~20€.
I remember I got Dark Souls 1 for 3€.
Just some anecdata.
I think publishers are aware that their games are valueable longer longer, and they don't need those $5 buyers really.
Perhaps this only applies to very popular games.
TLDR: I wouldn't bet on this being on sale for $5 ever
I threw out the $5 figure because I recently purchased Doom (2016) for $5 at a sale, which is a AAA title that sold for a premium on release day. I wouldn't have bought it if it weren't so cheap because I'm not usually into gory shooters.
What those two companies have in common is that they have made remakes or remasterings of their old titles. They may be worried that lowering the price may effect the perceived value of those releases. A Demon Souls remake being sold at full price might seem shockingly expensive if the origional was selling for $5.
Just play at your own pace. Once you get past adolescence, life will happen and you'll fall behind recent releases. Launch bugs will cease to matter.
Hey speaking of, I just found this cool new game called Borderlands - it's a shame that the intro music is so classical, because the setting seems like a cool sort of dystopian punk sci-fi. I wonder if that'll catch on, because it sort of reminds me of some books that I read a few years ago...
