Wow sorry Austrailians i must sound like a prick whining about our u.s prices, must stink for yahtzee (did i spell that right?). anyway... WOW 100$ bucks for a game...jeeze...
Poll: The prices of these games lately!
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I prefer hitting a pawnshop and find some old game. I wish I could find the xbox version of Silent Hill 2 someday....
With the technology used to create games becoming more complex, I wouldn't be surprised if games cost $100 by the end of 2010...I'm clearly not the optimistic type...
you no this also relates to what you said about gas prices, it costs alot of money to spend on gas to ship these games. If gas goes up so will the game. also the game it self is probaly worth 50 bucks but gas makes it the 60 or 70 bucks it is.
Yay for JB!Armitage Shanks said:
Honestly, if you're Aussie, ALWAYS go to JB HiFi, unless you can get it off Steam. EB games is the place you want to avoid.
He mentions that they do in the Halo 3 review (I think).Decoy Doctorpus said:
But he also makes very unsubtle advertisements for "GAMETRADERS ROBINA" as well, in another review.
I'm pretty sure that's not true. I doubt that the companies that deliver games to their destinations (when I worked at Gamestop we used UPS) have any influence or impact on the price that your retailer sells the game for.static x 5 6 said:
I think that this generation of console games prices are stuck where they are for now. Next generation, however will be more expensive. Adjusted for inflation, games are cheaper then 10 years ago, at least in America.
Our government isn't hostile to videogames, it's just indifferent and we have one bastard Governor (not American style Governor - these are basically bill signers put in place by the real heads of government, the Premiers). To add the R rating we need all the State's Governors to agree to it. The problem is that South Australia's Gov. is a nanny state dickhole in to 'save the children'. All the others are perfectly willing to allow the R rating through.KaptnKerfuffle said:
As for pricing, this is the explanation I've heard and don't mind believing. The value of the Aussie dollar (relative to US$) has increased massively in the last decade. I remember that in the early 90s it was a good rule of thumb when converting that 2 Oz dollars=1 US dollar; now it's almost 1:1. Because of this, we got used to paying higher prices and the stores just refuse to move the savings on to us - and why would they want to?
See, the retailers are under no pressure to lower their prices, so they won't. Either the average joe is too stupid not to realise they're getting ripped off, or, since most retailers (except for JB Hi-Fi) haven't lowered (and instead actually raised) the standard price, we Aussie gamers have no real choice if we wish to buy locally.Saskwach said:
It's called a market of scale. Gaming is big in Australia, but not nearly as big as in America. There are more people buying games in America so retailers there can have lower prices than they do here and still turn big profits. It's a system set up so that publishers make a similar amount of money in Australia as they do in the USA without selling more of the product.KapnKerfuffle said:
You're nuts, they used to charge 50 bucks for new snes games, and some retailers charged even more. I even remember seeing a copy of Yoshi's Island for 75 dollars in a K-Mart once!
The price of games has not changed much in the last 20 years. It sucks that we pay twice as much as merkins do for their games though.
I myself being an Aussie am getting sick of paying over-the-top dollar for a game im gonna play for like 10 hours and probaly wont play it much ever again. Hell, im getting more playing time outa my PS2 still over my PS3. I thought that GTAIV would have changed that but i was wrong. I finished the story and moved on. And since i live in a rural area, games like GTAIV are being sold for or above $120 (luckily i got my sister to pre-order it since she lives in the city) I only had to pay $65 from Big-W. Greatest Bargin Ever! I mean, i bought Motorstorm 6 months after its initial release and still payed 120 fucking dollars for it, and i didn't even really like it that much. The handling was just retarded. I'd have more luck drving a sedan in GTA4 then a Motorbike in Motorstorm!
Well, since Blu-Ray is still relatively new (I don't care about Blu-ray drives in PCs, does any game actually use them?) the productions costs can go up.
But I think this is going to happen a bit more often, once Blu-ray settles in there's going to be another format on the horizon that will be even more expensive than the last to produce. Maybe Prpl-Beem? Or Yllw-Lzr? How about Rnbw-brite? In anycase, once a new format comes up I'd predict that the prices of video games would either stay the same (in the 50-70 dollar mark) or go up 10 dollars.
But I think this is going to happen a bit more often, once Blu-ray settles in there's going to be another format on the horizon that will be even more expensive than the last to produce. Maybe Prpl-Beem? Or Yllw-Lzr? How about Rnbw-brite? In anycase, once a new format comes up I'd predict that the prices of video games would either stay the same (in the 50-70 dollar mark) or go up 10 dollars.
Sorry I don't have a proper source, but I remember hearing that the production costs for Blu-ray isn't that much higher that normal DVDs (at that scale of production of course), so the use of Blu-ray disks shouldn't actually raise the price of games.Jumplion said: