Next gen console game prices .. the $20 bump

I see that happening too, but I somehow doubt that the consumer will gain any cost benefit from that, they will charge the same price and just keep the extra cash for themselves.

 

...Think 'yourself' lucky, 360 games will cost us double in the U.K, what they cost you peeps in the U.S.


:smt045

 

i had to do chores and stuff to scrounge up $65-$70 for a goddamn N64 game back in the day, but now I have a steady job...so it's not that bad. I guess it's just what you're willing to pay. I'm sure I'll do more reading about a game if I'm gonna pay that much for it though. I'm tired of buying games and they end up blowing ass and can be beat in like a day...like Doom III.

But yeah, I don't see how this is gonna encourage parents to buy their kids this stuff for christmas or whatever.

 

^microsoft leaving the market, and Nintendo deciding (in its own words) not to compete with Sony (and currently MS) spells trouble... As sony will just dominate and abuse its possition, which isn't good... Sony is already turning into an arrogant beast

 

The 360 costs too much and so do the games it'd be cheaper to build a gaming pc and download all the games you want and get all your old emus at the sametime. I think the prices are too high and they need to cut them down alot Its expensive gaming now at these prices you'll be in debt becuase you wanted to play halo.

 

hey hey hey...what about the phantom? Sony will not be unopposed...

 

DOn't you guys remember that before the PSX, games used to cost $60+ because they were cartridges. These new games will cost that much because cost of making the disc is rising a bit and because it takes more money to develop a game now, regardless if its a game from a AAA company or a small developer.

 

i bet we'll see a second crash, or something (maybe not as dramatic, but we'll definitivly see something), since sony have reached a technology standard that is more than adequate to pull large and beautiful worlds. what will they do next? Make a bigger console? Nintendo will start something else, apart from sony's plan, so the competition will be...low. Low competition means, i-don't-care-if-it's-shit-'cause-it's-the-only-thing-on-the-market-anyway attitude. pray that Nintnedo save the industry again, and that sega come back to life and make the war to nintendo like in the old days. :-D

 

If M$ goes out, it'll just be like that era of PSX vs. Nintendo, again. Sony is one of the leaders in making casual titles, but they have some awesome RPGS, too. With Microsoft gone, its one less contender for Nintendo to deal with, so they may thrive, again. Why would Nintendo say they dont want to compete with Sony? Have they given up? I hope not. We need at LEAST 3 systems on the market.

BTW, "tac on all that hidden pay per play crap"

Whats this pay per play shit?!

 

I wonder how many more Final Fantasies are going to be made...

 

...So true, Megadrive carts / MEGA CD games / Saturn games / P.C games, used to cost me £30-40 at release, making current and future gen titles cheaper in real terms, allowing for inflation.

...It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out the maths!

 

its funny too cause i remember it was not shocking to pay $80 for a new super nintendo game, the thing is, how did people afford it back then, its not like now where $50 is just standard and you got your $20 and $40 titles, i mean how were they able to sell games so well at those prices. Not only that, but when 64 first came in japan, for awhile i belvie they were paying $100 a game easily, can you imagine how much that was to import yeesh, hey it could be worse, it could be alot more if we were still using cartridges. Still i wonder, how the hell did people easily afford games at those prices back then?

 

...So true, it's all relative, it's like when the first Video Recorders came out in the 70's, they cost like £2,000 to buy, you were lucky to earn much more than that per year, I don't think new technology ever did come "easily", you saved and if it's what you wanted you bought it.

...Nowadays it's peanuts compared to the price's of old, it's only now that things are 'easy' in real terms.

...One of the best comparisons I always use is the price of RAM, just remember how much that used to cost per stick, then think yourself lucky nowadays!