Oh get lost Deering

[Cody211282]

I think that he is forgetting that gaming is a hobby, and when i picked it up it was cheaper then most, but this is retarded, there is no way i would pay that much for something, and it doesn't even have coop or a long single player. I'm sorry but with the way the economy is at the moment there is no way i could ever justify paying that amount for a game.

 

[Evil Tim]

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/35209/Publishers-need-70-games-pricetag-says-Deering

£70 fucking quid? How can I put this?

NO

You don't read so well, do you?

?Before there can be as many successful blockbuster games as there were in the past, games have to be produced in a more efficient fashion.

?In order to price these games at a level where they would support an industry [as strongly as] they did ten years ago, they?d have to be sold at £70. But people just don?t have that kind of money, there?s a psychological glass ceiling.

?Consumers won?t spend more, but to write the game, publishers are having to spend more than ever before. That?s the key problem.?

and further

?The cost of development is ten times what it was for PS2, and more like 20 to 50 times more than on PSOne. Yet there are lots of things you can get for less than the relative value of paying 50p an hour for a very high end game.?

He's presenting it as a situation that won't happen in order to define the problem; "this is the situation: we could do this to solve it, but there's no way customers will go along with that, so we're having this meeting to discuss other options." Panic buttons away, he's ruling out the idea of £70 games, not saying it's inevitable.

 

[Fire Daemon]

That is ten quid more than the price of AAA new release games in Australia.

Consider yourself lucky that you haven't been getting ripped off for years. Sure, this might be quite expensive, but all Australians have been buying games at around this price for quite some time. Even when our exchange rate was nearly identical to Americans we still paid twice the price.

Want to know something England, you're going to buy those games if they cost 100 pound. If they stretch up to 150, you're still going to buy them. We still do. Rock Band was an insane price, like $350+ dollars (or something similar) and it sold like hot cakes. I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but this is a likely outcome and a few months after, you're not going to mind paying 70 or higher for a game.

I still can't believe that people are throwing a fit over the 55 pound price tag on MW2. We pay 60.1668 pounds for our games and have been doing so for the past, what, four years? Maybe three?

 

[Ophiuchus]

I'm not paying £70 for a regular game. The only thing I'll pay over the odds for is something that I know will last hundreds of hours, and even then I wouldn't be too happy about it. I probably would've paid it for Oblivion or Fallout 3 because it could still be justified as value for money. The only other exception is stuff like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and only because they come with specific peripherals.