Poll: Are new games over priced?
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I remember when games cost $30. then they were $40. Then $50. Then $60.
I realise the technology is improving, but shouldn't that mean games get cheaper? Calculaters used to cost a good $100, and if you include inflation thats probably $140 nowadays.
I realise the technology is improving, but shouldn't that mean games get cheaper? Calculaters used to cost a good $100, and if you include inflation thats probably $140 nowadays.
To produce a copy of a game, it costs around a dollar. The profit margin is a little ridiculous, but millions are spent to produce a game. At least, unlike record companies, game companies lower their ridiculous prices once the games been out a while.
I like to wait until it goes on sale or the price drops. Unless a game has the words "half-life" in the title, there's no way I'm dropping $50 on it.
For a brand new game, I bought L4D2 from day one and it only cost me about 40£. That's pretty good for a brand new game.
Honestly I have it sweet. New games very rarely venture over 50£ so I'm mostly good when it comes to buying new games.
But for the rest of you, yeah. Quite overpriced, especially NZ and Austrailia. They got majorly screwed on this one.
Honestly I have it sweet. New games very rarely venture over 50£ so I'm mostly good when it comes to buying new games.
But for the rest of you, yeah. Quite overpriced, especially NZ and Austrailia. They got majorly screwed on this one.
New games cost more to make, thats how it is. Not just because of the economy, but because of things like HD graphics, more compelling storyline, and the demand for online capabilities and updates. These put together put a bigger burden on a developer compared to the last generation of games, with new hardware, new software, and so on. However, your point that games are X amount of the console value is really something to think about, and something publishers should consider when pricing games. $60 USD is not something set in stone. It's just what they do, because they can. If games get any more expensive than that for standard editions, the games industry is going to be in trouble.Rangergord said:
Who's going to pay $X for a console, $X for a game, and than maybe $X for online play? If prices continue to go up as they do? (Probably many, but if everything goes up $10 next generation, people will be looking at that new game saying "ill just replay my old games, i have to eat")
Fixed. Yeah it sucks over here. We pay 90-120 dollars for new games. And considering our currency is at the moment 95 US cents per dollar and on the rise it's completely unjustified. But, as a sarcastic man once said "I like to call it the having-better-beaches tax."Mr.Pandah said:
+1 internets for the reference.
How about MMORPGs, nearly all of them cost ?40 + ?13/month but only like 3 of them are actually worth the price >< its a ripoff and really put me off from trying out a lot of them
I just looked in the new Argos catalogue (UK) and a few examples:
Modern Warfare 2 - £50
Blur - £47
Alan Wake - £43
How can they charge 47 for Blur?! I didnt think they hyped Blur up enough to be considered a AAA title.
Modern Warfare 2 - £50
Blur - £47
Alan Wake - £43
How can they charge 47 for Blur?! I didnt think they hyped Blur up enough to be considered a AAA title.
Oh, it was Yahtzee. Though my second guess would have been an Aussie MP.ClaptonKnophlerHendrix said:
But having read your post again, 90-120 US Dollars is a huge amount of money for a new game. Here in Blighty, we'd expect to pay about $65 tops for a brand spanking new game.
It absolutely cripples the amount of games I play.Gunner 51 said:Oh, it was Yahtzee. Though my second guess would have been an Aussie MP.ClaptonKnophlerHendrix said:
But having read your post again, 90-120 US Dollars is a huge amount of money for a new game. Here in Blighty, we'd expect to pay about $65 tops for a brand spanking new game.
I can imagine that. Especially with the nickel and dime treatment Gamestop is infamous for dishing out to it's patrons when they want to trade in games to help pay those crazy prices.ClaptonKnophlerHendrix said:It absolutely cripples the amount of games I play.Gunner 51 said:Oh, it was Yahtzee. Though my second guess would have been an Aussie MP.ClaptonKnophlerHendrix said:
But having read your post again, 90-120 US Dollars is a huge amount of money for a new game. Here in Blighty, we'd expect to pay about $65 tops for a brand spanking new game.