Multiple Game Companies Are Considering Raising the Price of Games to $69.99 for NextGen

As I've already said before, it has been over 15 years since prices went up. Games are actually cheaper now than they were then when adjusting for inflation so a $10 hike isn't too bad. I remember back when games went from $40-50 to $60 and people freaked the **** out how it was the end of gaming. Clearly it was not.
It's very understandable for prices to go up, I recall reading something a while back that if you account for things like inflation and cost of AAA production games should cost over a $100. The problem is getting a game is a gamble, you never quite know if you're getting your money's worth. If the amount or enjoy of the content enough to justify the hit to your wallet. Unfortunately the industry now accepts games being released broken adding more uncertainty. Microtransactions could have saved the industry, keeping base cost low for most customers and still get revenue from more wealthy ones. If they weren't so manipulative and greedy that could have been a perfect solution
 
Checking the Metacritic rating, watching gameplay walkthroughs, reading reviews from the gp, reading info about an expanXion, waiting for games to cut their price in less than a year. Like if you want to make sure about a game or if you want to save money as much as you can. There are ways for it. I only really started buying videogames again in 2018, and I do all of those things and I even have a list of games that is written on paper/notes. Sometimes, I bought a bit early that I missed a cheaper price tag, one week after I bought a game or a game of the year edition was released for a game that I already bought. But I have yet to buy a broken game, or a game filled with bugs or a game that is unplayable due to microtransactions. You just have to read or wait for reviews I guess, if you are so eager to buy a game during its launch week or wait a month or two til the bugs/problems are fixed.
 
The Steelbook editions of the three new Ubisoft games are 110 bucks on the PS5. :dry:
 
Nintendon't have sales on their first-party games.

Zelda BotW is still full price even after three years.

I mean, they will have sales. Its just the prices don't just drop. In the case of some titles, they increase....
What a pity. But I did check the prices of some older games, and yikes, one game hit the $329 price? And I don't know where it's sold exactly, but that was a price I saw.
 
Hell, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition is a port of a game released in 2014. Still $60. And with the attach rate it has, is still one of the better selling games of the year 3 years in.
 
What a pity. But I did check the prices of some older games, and yikes, one game hit the $329 price? And I don't know where it's sold exactly, but that was a price I saw.
I didn't know Nintendo games don't drop their prices... Makes me glad that I will not ever own a Switch. Especially with the cartoony/dated graphics.

While with PlayStation, most of the big games drop to 40 dollars after siX months then wait a year, then its lower than 30 bucks. So I never have to buy a game for 60 dollars.
 
I have a Switch and can confirm, their prices do not drop on in house games. I waited briefly on those before realizing they were never going to dip more than maybe $5 "on sale" which usually means the business and not Nintendo doing it.
 
Nintendo does have a few sales on their big titles. Rarely more than 20%, though.
 
Sony Reportedly Discussed Increasing Game Prices Above $70 - IGN

From the original source (paywalled):
This week, video game publishers will press ahead with an industry-wide effort to raise the standard price to $70. The move coincides with the debut of two new game consoles from Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp., a generational change that comes every seven years or so. There’s one complicating factor: an economic crisis that had doubled unemployment in the U.S. from levels before the coronavirus pandemic.

Inside publishing houses, a price hike has been plotted and dissected by executives for years. They point to inflation, as well as the ballooning cost to develop triple-A games, as justification. At one point, Sony discussed going even higher before settling on $70. Many of the game executives requested anonymity, apparently because they recognize the move is unpopular. In many cases, companies won’t acknowledge the fee increase, saying only that prices will vary by title.
Capcom Co., the Japanese publisher of Resident Evil and Street Fighter, won’t release software for the new systems until next year. But like other companies, Capcom said it’s taking a “title-by-title” approach. “We believe game software’s price should be determined by how much money consumers are willing to pay for the quality, not by how much money we spend to make that game,” said Kenkichi Nomura, the chief financial officer.
 
Microsoft Thinks Higher Video Game Prices Are Warranted

Okay. My ps5 waitlist is still short. I was tempted to buy Miles Morales this week but then I realized I already spent at least 110 dollars for the new Ubisoft games this month, and its a bit much especially if I managed to get a ps5 neXt month.

So I just hope these games well ps5 games cut their price in half, eventually like in less than 12 months. I'm still waiting for a lot of 2019/2020 games to go under 30 dollars.
 
What are the odds that the millionaire video game CEO thinks the price increase is fine?

I can't believe it happened and gamers just ate up that plate of poop, and even defended it in some cases. All in the middle of a global pandemic too, the greed is shameless.
 
Microsoft Thinks Higher Video Game Prices Are Warranted

Okay. My ps5 waitlist is still short. I was tempted to buy Miles Morales this week but then I realized I already spent at least 110 dollars for the new Ubisoft games this month, and its a bit much especially if I managed to get a ps5 neXt month.

So I just hope these games well ps5 games cut their price in half, eventually like in less than 12 months. I'm still waiting for a lot of 2019/2020 games to go under 30 dollars.
Sounds like a bit of a deception as Microsoft know the higher game prices go, the more attractive a monthly subscription like their gamepass gets.
 
Sounds like a bit of a deception as Microsoft know the higher game prices go, the more attractive a monthly subscription like their gamepass gets.
Higher prices for new games could benefit their game pass.

Personally, I'm just hoping the big ps5 games would cut their price up to 20 dollars, several months after their launch release.

70 dollars is too eXpensive for me, unless that game could have a single player campaign over 100 hours. I wish they only increased the price to $5. This definitely gave me more reason to wait til the games are much cheaper.
 
Game prices by inflation are cheaper than they used to be. I know a lot of people don't care but compared to 20 years ago, you are getting a deal now. Of course it's been offset by DLC, microtransactions and a host of other ways to nickel and dime gamers.
 
Game prices by inflation are cheaper than they used to be. I know a lot of people don't care but compared to 20 years ago, you are getting a deal now. Of course it's been offset by DLC, microtransactions and a host of other ways to nickel and dime gamers.
Also people play a lot more games than before and the percentage of people playing that are adults with disposable income is much higher. Most of my gaming friends have played hundreds of games since the PS3/360 generations but far fewer in the generations before that.
 
I mean, given how the budgets of these games are just going out of control, yeah, a price increase was always inevitable.
 
Game prices by inflation are cheaper than they used to be. I know a lot of people don't care but compared to 20 years ago, you are getting a deal now. Of course it's been offset by DLC, microtransactions and a host of other ways to nickel and dime gamers.
The thing though is there are also so many free to play games out there especially compare to the 2000s. They could possibly turning away potential new console/pc gamers with that 70 dollar price tag.

And aren't major studios getting so much money from microtransactions, paid costumes and dlcs?

The videogame industry is literally more profitable now than TV and movie industry.
 

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