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You can buy a new game for like $70 (after taxes) these days.

Does anyone else find this ridiculous? I mean they put in alot of work and all but $70 per copy? I think this is way over the top for game prices.. I have 18 XBOX 360 games, and after doing the math, that's $1260 in games. Over one thousand dollars for a little stack of games.. and the price is just going up.. Why don't they just lower the price $20 atleast? If people see the new CoD for $50 opposed to $70, won't more people buy it anyways? I jsut think it's very stupid how games cost this much, just a rant.. I remember new PS2 games going for like $40, and NES games were like $25-ish new? Why do they keep going up? Better graphics ooooo better spend more money - it's retarded.

So if you agree, what do you think the game prices should be?
 
Dog-- said:
You can buy a new game for like $70 (after taxes) these days.

Does anyone else find this ridiculous? I mean they put in alot of work and all but $70 per copy? I think this is way over the top for game prices.. I have 18 XBOX 360 games, and after doing the math, that's $1260 in games. Over one thousand dollars for a little stack of games.. and the price is just going up.. Why don't they just lower the price $20 atleast? If people see the new CoD for $50 opposed to $70, won't more people buy it anyways? I jsut think it's very stupid how games cost this much, just a rant.. I remember new PS2 games going for like $40, and NES games were like $25-ish new? Why do they keep going up? Better graphics ooooo better spend more money - it's retarded.

So if you agree, what do you think the game prices should be?
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I'm pretty sure that I read in PC Gamer that the reasoning for the price increase of MW2 was because for all of the money allocated to game design, companies received little profit because of the profits of the game being shared among the publisher, vendor, and the developer itself. With a higher price, the developer would be able to make more of a profit.
 
Thats why PC is best.

And games have always been overpriced. However, their profits have actually been going down, since it takes a lot more money to make games these days, yet they still charge almost the same (new n64 games were 50 bucks before tax). And most games today sell for $60 on consoles. $40-$50 on PC, so its actually better value than it used to be.

@ Xev: Thats a bullshit excuse for the price. They just wanted to make more money, because they knew it would sell like hotcakes and they would easily make their money back within hours of the release.
 
Xevrex said:
I'm pretty sure that I read in PC Gamer that the reasoning for the price increase of MW2 was because for all of the money allocated to game design, companies received little profit because of the profits of the game being shared among the publisher, vendor, and the developer itself. With a higher price, the developer would be able to make more of a profit.
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I actually never even knew about this MW2 price increase, I'm literally just learning it from you now.. Now I'm even more pissed.
 
I guess its like everything else, the price goes up over time.
 
Stop being poor.

Problem solved

WHAT?! VIDEO GAMES SELL WELL SO THEY INCREASE THE PRICE?!
 
Fairly interesting article
EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich is expecting the median price of videogames to drop back to a $49.99 price point as early as next year, noting, however, higher rated or "premium" titles (80 and above) will likely remain unchanged for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Divnich believes the new motion control devices from Sony and Microsoft, both expected for release next year, will cause publishers to release a catalog of lower budget, lower priced titles attractive to the casual audience, as well as a decrease in overall development costs.

"EEDAR believes that median pricing for titles released in 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will decline to $49.99, but likely will not occur until the beginning of the 2010 holiday season," Divnich wrote in a note to investors this morning. "The expected decrease to $49.99 will be a directly attributable to the continued penetration of the casual market, an increase in quantities of low?cost casual games, and a decrease in development costs."

"Additionally, Sony Motion and Project Natal will play their role in driving prices down," he added. "EEDAR believes that both the Sony Motion and Project Natal will create resurgence in demand among the casual market. Given that the casual market is more price sensitive and that overall economic health is not expected to dramatically improve in 2010, it is expected that there will be a sufficient increase in lower priced games targeted at this casual/mainstream audience to drive down the median price of titles for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3."

Divnich also believes the only scenario where we could see premium titles receive price drops is if a large publishing is willing to give up profits to gain market share, such as Take-Two releasing its 2K sports series for $19.99 back in 2005 to compete with EA's titles.
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Mostly about how gimmicky games for Sony Motion and Natal will be cheaper than AAA games, but there's a little in there about most AAA game prices dropping if just a single publisher greatly drops its prices.
 
Dalamari said:
Stop being poor.

Problem solved

WHAT?! VIDEO GAMES SELL WELL SO THEY INCREASE THE PRICE?!
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I'm not poor, didn't I just say I spend a retarded amount ($1260) on 18 XBOX games?
 
Dog-- said:
NES games were like $25-ish new?
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HA HA HA YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT

Listen up underage fags, games have always cost an exorbitant amount of money. You remember the Turbo Grafx 16? Remember 3DO? Remember the goddamned Neo FUCKING Geo with its games that cost HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS PER GAME? SNES and Genesis games used to cost $60. N64 games could go up to $75. NES games were in the $50 price range, and--get this--ET for the 2600 sold for like $60!

People seem to have really short term memory when it comes to game prices. You know, on Black Friday there was a deal at TRU where you could get a 360, two games of your choice, and another controller for $260. I remember when the 3DO was $800 shit-eating dollars, with NO GAMES. Shut the fuck up, kids.
 
I got my copy of Chrono Trigger for $70.....

I don't know what you guys are talking about "Really expensive games"...
 
I could swear they used to be $25 new around there.
 
The Atari 2600 I got for my Birthday long ago was about $220 I think, and that was back when $220 was like a million dollars.
 
Dog said:
I could swear they used to be $25 new around there.
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Guy you weren't even born until 1991. What the hell do you know about NES prices? You know how much Ninja Turtles cost me? DO YOU?!
 
Well back then we were poor maybe my parents just bought used games then lmao I dunno, I was a Genesis kid anyways so **** you. (although I still had a Nintendo and a billion games)
 
Dog said:
I was a Genesis kid anyways so **** you.
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Warbie. Warbie get in here please. Will you please tell this guy who he's talking to?

Tsk...conscription brats. You don't even know who you're talking to these days. "I was a Genesis kid," he says. While you were still in diapers I was out there in the trenches telling people about how Sega does what Nintendon't. You think you're hot stuff 'caused you owned a Genesis, but you were a kid; you got drafted. You played the Genesis on your momma's teat, boy; those of us who were old enough to remember the wars had to pick a side voluntarily. They didn't just hand us a console and say "Have at it," we had to make a choice, what we thought was the educated choice, and then every friggin' day at recess we had to prove to the other bastards on the blacktop why WE were right, and THEY were wrong.

You son of a bitch. I lost an arm in those wars fighting for Genesis. And then I ripped off some SNES kid's arm and took it for my own like goddamned CYBORG JUSTICE.
 
I'd pay $49 max for a game I REALLY want, which doesn't happen too often. Otherwise I get them on sale for $29 or less depending on the game.
 
Dog-- said:
You can buy a new game for like $70 (after taxes) these days.

Does anyone else find this ridiculous? I mean they put in alot of work and all but $70 per copy? I think this is way over the top for game prices.. I have 18 XBOX 360 games, and after doing the math, that's $1260 in games. Over one thousand dollars for a little stack of games.. and the price is just going up.. Why don't they just lower the price $20 atleast? If people see the new CoD for $50 opposed to $70, won't more people buy it anyways? I jsut think it's very stupid how games cost this much, just a rant.. I remember new PS2 games going for like $40, and NES games were like $25-ish new? Why do they keep going up? Better graphics ooooo better spend more money - it's retarded.

So if you agree, what do you think the game prices should be?
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Big name games here go for $100 - $120 depending on where you are, I often find game expansions being close to $100 too (For example I saw Wrath of the Lich King for $99.92 at EB Games)

Even those WoW prepaid game cards were $40.
 
Danimal said:
Big name games here go for $100 - $120 depending on where you are, I often find game expansions being close to $100 too (For example I saw Wrath of the Lich King for $99.92 at EB Games)

Even those WoW prepaid game cards were $40.
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Yeah I remember seeing Far Cry for $119 when I lived in Sydney. Frikkin crazy...
 
Darkside55 said:
Warbie. Warbie get in here please. Will you please tell this guy who he's talking to?

Tsk...conscription brats. You don't even know who you're talking to these days. "I was a Genesis kid," he says. While you were still in diapers I was out there in the trenches telling people about how Sega does what Nintendon't. You think you're hot stuff 'caused you owned a Genesis, but you were a kid; you got drafted. You played the Genesis on your momma's teat, boy; those of us who were old enough to remember the wars had to pick a side voluntarily. They didn't just hand us a console and say "Have at it," we had to make a choice, what we thought was the educated choice, and then every friggin' day at recess we had to prove to the other bastards on the blacktop why WE were right, and THEY were wrong.

You son of a bitch. I lost an arm in those wars fighting for Genesis. And then I ripped off some SNES kid's arm and took it for my own like goddamned CYBORG JUSTICE.
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I totally beat that game in one sitting once. Shit was amazing, last boss is so cheap as well, but I ****ed his ass.
 
Darkside55 said:
You son of a bitch. I lost an arm in those wars fighting for Genesis. And then I ripped off some SNES kid's arm and took it for my own like goddamned CYBORG JUSTICE.
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Pff, Genesis. It's the same old thing isn't it. 'Genesis saved our asses in that war' right? ****ing yanks. Where were you when I huddled with fifteen other souls in a Master System re-purposed to get us back across the channel? Where were you when Sheffield was levelled by Super Mario Bros. 3 or when the brave aces of the Alex Kidd squadron repelled wave after wave of better designed, mass produced Nintendo devils? Oh... where were you when our RF units no longer gave a decent signal without being at Just the right angle, so you had to get the box and a stool to rest the damned thing on? Huh?

Oh yes. We held fast against the enemy, with our inferior equipment we stood up for what was right - not what was easy. And then you strolled over here, with your self-righteous hoohah and your Castles of Illusion and dared to tell us how the war could be won. With 14 different add-ons and two-part blockbuster titles that could just have easily sold as a single unit. And history will always tell your story, of how the 'Genesis' fought back the enemy for those sorry years. But it was not so.

It was not so.
 
Don't you talk bad about Castle of Illusion! And don't you talk down to me about the Master System! We all saw what happened with the Master System. You can barely call yourselves a Sega system; you sold out to everyone under the sun! Tonka in America! Virgin in France and the UK!

People were scared in those days. Nintendo...Nintendo owned everything. They had Metroid and Megaman. They had Super Mario Bros. 3. They spent their money funding weird perversions of warfare, like robots and gloves that could control the game. They stamped out Atari. As a child I watched as the color faded from the rainbow logos of crushed ColecoVisions. Even if you disagreed with Nintendo you couldn't speak out against them. You couldn't say you liked Alex Kidd or Wonder Boy. Your own friends would ostracize you and report you to the Nintendo Power Club.

I admire your courage, but make no mistake: there was no console war in those days. What you had was a slaughter. You had, what, three, four years hiding in the shadows before we pulled your butts out of the fire with Genesis? Comix Zone saved your ass when Donkey Kong Country came.

So don't act like I just waltzed in and had a grand ol' time. I've seen men huddled around a TV too, men crying for their mommas 'cause they didn't have controllers and AC adapters. Well we tore the joysticks and cables from an old 2600 and we MADE it work, so we could fight Nintendo with our superior version of Jurassic Park. We cannibalized good systems...we even sold our souls to CDs before Nintendo could solidify their alliance with Sony...they would've crushed us all if they got their hands on that technology first. We even learned to miniaturize the Master System and put it in a handheld device.

It was because of us Genesis soldiers that all of us Sega gamers got to play through two more eras.
 
Comix Zone kicked so much ass on my SEGA Nomad

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Comix ZoneComix ZoneComix ZoneComix ZoneComix ZoneComix ZoneComix Zone

VirusType I think I am falling.
 
I remember buying WCW/NWO Thunder for the PS1 for $69. Shit was awesome.
 
Reading this thread just makes me more and more glad that I never touched Nintendo in those days.
 
Games used to cost like $30 for new releases here, but they've gone up to $40.


Also, you console gamers. pfft. I never did need a console. Oh all the other boys had their Nintendo 64s and their Playstations but I had a damned PC with MS-DOS. Enough for me. I was 4 years old when I learned how two navigate the Command Line Interfaces of those shit.

Atari? My uncle had an Atari; prolly the only guy in the nation that did. That didn't save him when the PCs came for him and threw his Atari out the window. You can't play Starcraft on an Atari, nor a Nintendo, Nor any console fagshit.

Also, LOL @ Darkside :P









....

:( Oh how I loved Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo 64..... I used to sleep over at my cousin's just for that.
 
Darkside55 said:
HA HA HA YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT

Listen up underage fags, games have always cost an exorbitant amount of money. You remember the Turbo Grafx 16? Remember 3DO? Remember the goddamned Neo FUCKING Geo with its games that cost HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS PER GAME? SNES and Genesis games used to cost $60. N64 games could go up to $75. NES games were in the $50 price range, and--get this--ET for the 2600 sold for like $60!

People seem to have really short term memory when it comes to game prices. You know, on Black Friday there was a deal at TRU where you could get a 360, two games of your choice, and another controller for $260. I remember when the 3DO was $800 shit-eating dollars, with NO GAMES. Shut the fuck up, kids.
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The Neo-Geo system itself was like $799. The most expensive console ever tbh. The reason for it's pricing was because it was touted as THE home arcade system with arcade quality graphics. Back then when the market was geared towards the younger crowds who loved to hang out at arcades, (R.I.P:() arcade graphics were all the rage so SNK thought for some reason that the thing would sell like crazy even with a high price tag.

So you see, it had nothing to do with development costs, just moar $$$$.

BTW, my parents got me an NES for Christmas back in 88' and it was like $199 at the time. The same price as an Xbox 360 Arcade.


VirusType2 said:
Comix Zone kicked so much ass on my SEGA Nomad

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Shadowrun on the Genesis would rank as one of the top 5 games of all time on my top list fs.
 
When I got my first SNES, it costed about 200 bucks. That was back in 93-94. I bought Sega Genesis in 95, the price was about same as SNES. But the game cost more.

The games also did cost close to anywhere between 40 to 60 bucks. I still remember paying 70 bucks for Strider.

So people who constantly bitches about today's game prices probably have never owned any old school game consoles before.
 
The SNES was about $200 when it came out, but how much was the PS3 when it came out, $599?

SNES is better TBH.
 
I remember my dad got me the genesis in 93' for like $100 and it came with Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. Don't know how much games cost then, I didn't really look at prices :P Knowing my parents, anything I got was probably on sale. I never really 'caught up' to the current times till like high school, till then 'new releases' remained a relatively unimportant concept for me. It was cool, ignorance is bliss :P
 
The topics are related.

Nintendo has done it again with the Wii. The system's success had been phenomenal at $250; the PS3's sales were dismal at the $600 launch price.

Sony did better [than Neo-Geo] by offering it as a media center (and because the games weren't ~$200), but the thing is, by the time the PS3 can match the ~$200 price point (which has proven time and again over the decades to be the price that the majority of parents are willing to spend on a game system), there may be PS4's and Xbox 540's on shelves by then.

More on topic, at one time, I may have paid $50 for a game, but these days, the most I'll pay is probably $30, even for something I really want. A sign of the times (economy) more than a sign of my age... I think.
 
Yeah, but it's pretty funny to see people complaining about game prices, when the price has always been fluctuating between 40 to 70 bucks (normally) throughout the gaming market.
 
Well, we are in a depression in the US. Not as bad as the one my Grandparents lived through, but never the less, the economy is in turmoil.
 
Naph said:
Try living here.
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I can't figure out why your country would value games so highly that they can charge that much. How much does a new DVD and BluRay cost, and a new music CD?
 
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