I'd never pay that kind of money for a videogame, let alone in Argentina, where the price would probably double by the time the game makes it here.
Poll: If games cost $69.99 next gen?
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This.tippy2k2 said:It would barely affect me at all.
Games drop in price so quickly now and there are SO many of them to chose from that unless I MUST HAVE IT NOWZ! (maybe once a year), I don't ever buy at full price. So they can do what they want with the price for I will just continue waiting to buy the game until it gets to a price that I find reasonable.
So I suppose "Other" would be my choice since I wouldn't say Yes or No because I don't care. I also don't buy used games all that often so that wouldn't matter and I don't think we need to overthrow the gaming government because the prices of our games have gone up
I haven't paid 60 bucks for a game since... **thinks** Mass Effect 3 - no wait, I didn't pay full price for that either. I got it for 55 buck at a Midnight release because a local hole-in-the-wall game store gave a 5 dollar discount for pre-orders.
Before that...
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Catherine, maybe? I can't remember if I paid full price, but I preordered that one too.
This is the reason why I never buy games on release. That and because I don't care enough pre-release, I have to know post de facto if it's any good before I consider buying it. Or it's really cheap in the DS library. Sometimes other libraries, but mostly DS.
So even if they do increase the release price, it won't affect me unless it's like a really good game, in which case I will pay the extra price to make sure I get a copy.
So even if they do increase the release price, it won't affect me unless it's like a really good game, in which case I will pay the extra price to make sure I get a copy.
Welcome to the world American gamers!
I live in Europe where xbox360 games cost 75 euros (97.57US$), ps3 games cost 60 euros (78.06US$) and Wii/WiiU games cost 50 euros! (65.05US$)
New PC games range from 30 to 50 euros depending on the game's publisher. (39.03 to 65.05US$)
I live in Europe where xbox360 games cost 75 euros (97.57US$), ps3 games cost 60 euros (78.06US$) and Wii/WiiU games cost 50 euros! (65.05US$)
New PC games range from 30 to 50 euros depending on the game's publisher. (39.03 to 65.05US$)
Nope. Game prices got arbitrarily raised this last generation, when they did not need it. I'm not buying into the "next generation" of gaming at launch (because of Sony's lack of support for my existing library), and I will be even less likely to bother at all if games go up. Unfortunately, there are enough hypocritical people with no spine that will just shrug and accept it (all while bitching about it) that it will be done anyway.
$70 for a new gen game, I would love that if it was AUS dollar! The absolute cheapest I can find for new release games is $80, but at some places you can be paying $100 - $120
This person's post is worth repeating. When the switch to $60 happened in the US, that price would be $77 using the Consumer Price Index to adjust for inflation. That sounds bad, but that also means that prices for day-1 triple A games has dropped $17 USD in real dollars, not nominal dollars, over 11 years. 2013 prices will have to wait a bit.Trivun said:
In 1994, $50 USD would equate $76 in today's money. I remember it as the year $80 USD got a copy of the SNES' Final Fantasy III (US).
And in 1986, Metroid would cost a little over $100 USD in 2012 dollars ($50 USD then). That's Australia pricing, damn it.
That said, as Trivun brought up inflation I will mention elastic demand. Inelastic demand means you buy a similar amount of the product regardless of the price changes (within reason). Gasoline generally has fairly inelastic demand, since the decisions that control how much gas you buy were generally made by where you decided to buy your home, where you attend school, and a host of other bigger things. If demand is elastic, then consumers will sharply decrease purchasing over even modest price changes. The question is where video games are in this regard. There's four options:
1) Video games have high price elasticity of demand (PED, ok?), as even small shocks will lower sales significantly.
2) Video games have low PED, and modest shocks will barely change demand.
3) Video games have moderate PED and companies should think over how the change affects demand.
4) Video games should not be thought of as a single good with one level of PED. Instead, each series and IP and game is its own case.
I tend toward number 4. A single day-1 price of entry for every console game out there makes about as much sense to me as a single price for every car by a manufacturer. There are games I'd happily pay full price for on day 1, games which are worth more than that to me on day 1, and games which frankly you couldn't sell me at any price short of one that let me resell it on eBay.
Short answer: day 1 $70 USD pricing would not affect my demand for some games, would cause me to wait on others, and would be irrelevant for some games I've no interest in because my demand for games follows model 4.
While I doubt it would happen especially with Sony saying it wouldnt if it did it really wouldnt bother me at all. Even at $70 a game that is still cheaper then we were paying five or six years ago. While game prices have been relatively stable inflation and minimum wages have got up considerably.
70 dollar is about what, 50 euros?, well 53,80, but my guess was close. Games here usually cost about 50-60 anyway, which is why I use steam to buy everything on sale. and second hand stores to buy console games. cheap, effective and the game was originally bought, so the publishers already have their money. Everybody wins!
There's a reason I almost never buy new games anymore unless I can get them for under $10 (Steam, GOG, etc). But for physical copies on handhelds or consoles.. I refuse to buy a game for more than $30, even that's pushing it. I'll buy it a year or two later, as I have done for a very long time now.
Then again, if Used Game sales dry up, I can always play any of the 500+ games I have in backlog. If I can't get the game at a huge discount, I just don't fucking need it. A rare exception would be something that I know already had a shaky release and needs to do well.. such as Phoenix Wright or possibly Adventure Time.
There's a reason I only have a handful of games for my Xbox 360, and why I stopped buying Wii games even though I saw plenty worth being interested in. I'll probably never get to play ICO because GameStop won't stop asking 30 gods-damned dollars for a game that's scratched up in a fucking sleeve! Nevermind the exorbitant prices for it online when the friggin' PS3 version is out there. It's no surprise people are pirating more games these days, too.
Publishers are demanding too much as it is, and development costs are rising too high for games to make the proper amount in sales. If a game NEEDS to sell over 5 million copies to break even, somebody needs to realize that they're making the games WRONG.
Then again, if Used Game sales dry up, I can always play any of the 500+ games I have in backlog. If I can't get the game at a huge discount, I just don't fucking need it. A rare exception would be something that I know already had a shaky release and needs to do well.. such as Phoenix Wright or possibly Adventure Time.
There's a reason I only have a handful of games for my Xbox 360, and why I stopped buying Wii games even though I saw plenty worth being interested in. I'll probably never get to play ICO because GameStop won't stop asking 30 gods-damned dollars for a game that's scratched up in a fucking sleeve! Nevermind the exorbitant prices for it online when the friggin' PS3 version is out there. It's no surprise people are pirating more games these days, too.
Publishers are demanding too much as it is, and development costs are rising too high for games to make the proper amount in sales. If a game NEEDS to sell over 5 million copies to break even, somebody needs to realize that they're making the games WRONG.
I probably would still buy games, but I would *never* pre-order. To many companies pushing out crappy games at full price.
Honestly I keep hoping these high game prices will eventually kill the console market. High prices, and constant attempts to reduce the used market?
Honestly I keep hoping these high game prices will eventually kill the console market. High prices, and constant attempts to reduce the used market?