PS4 Games to be $100?
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So i'm guessing that's probably a placeholder speculative price or possibly a special edition or something (here's hoping) because you can be sure that if there are $100 games in the U.S that'll mean $150 games over here in Australia. Not that it would really affect me too much as I mainly get games through steam these days.....then again even steam prices are higher in Australia....
It's also perfectly plausible that your friend is just full of shit.
It's also perfectly plausible that your friend is just full of shit.
The Amazon [http://www.amazon.com/Watch-Dogs-Xbox-360/dp/B00BGD6LMG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361554711&sr=8-2&keywords=watch%20dogs&tag=vglnk-c21-20] price is a place holder price;
"Watch Dogs Placeholder Pricing
Please note that the current price on Watch Dogs for PlayStation 4 is a placeholder price until we receive more information from our first party and third party partners. As with all pre-orders, under Amazon's Pre-order Price Guarantee (POPG), if customers pre-order an item, then they are guaranteed the lowest price between the order date and the item's release date. We will update the price as soon as we know more. Thank you for your patience."
I wouldn't be surprised though if there was an increase in price for games at least initially but I doubt it would be a very large increase.
"Watch Dogs Placeholder Pricing
Please note that the current price on Watch Dogs for PlayStation 4 is a placeholder price until we receive more information from our first party and third party partners. As with all pre-orders, under Amazon's Pre-order Price Guarantee (POPG), if customers pre-order an item, then they are guaranteed the lowest price between the order date and the item's release date. We will update the price as soon as we know more. Thank you for your patience."
I wouldn't be surprised though if there was an increase in price for games at least initially but I doubt it would be a very large increase.
If this would occur i would expect console gaming to take another hit, Because at the end of the day people only have so much money and games getting shorter and more expensive will lead to alot of gamers just not buying.
Hopefully it is a fake or a mistake.
Hopefully it is a fake or a mistake.
Well I live in the UK and still have the original price on a fair few of my PSX games usually they would cost 40 to 45 pounds some even went for 50 in some places with the PS2 the price became more standardised with usually 40 pounds across the board they tried to raise this with the PS3 and 360 but people werent having it so it stayed at 40 mostly although they get around this with Collectors editions. If you are foolish enough to buy digitally especially on the PS3 or 360 store you will pay more usually 50 pounds for a new release already.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
Saying all that game prices did go down with the PSX many SNES cartridges would cost you 50 or even 60 pounds back in the day I dont know what that would be with inflation but a fair amount many N64 games were also similarly expensive.
100 USD is about 65 pounds and I cant see them getting away with that especially with the more regularised prices across the board we in the west have enjoyed for so long. They need to find the sweet spot though making games more expensive dosent necessarily mean they will get more money if it means not as many people buy them.
What I dont get is why not just make games they can afford instead of pumping ridiculous amounts into a project and then complaining they arent making any money not all games have to have 100s of millions behind them, you never know making games for the PS4 may be cheaper if they have streamlined the process or at least not hugely more expensive than it is now but thats just idle speculation on my part.
Obviously not gone to be the official price. People ***** about 60$, they're not gone to be stupid enough to make this mistake. They'd be putting the nails in their coffin. I would assume that Sony must've learned by now that the PS3 and Vita's poor pricing screwed them over in sales.
Gee, I'd be all in favor of something getting done to bring the prices down under down to par with the rest of the world myself, but I suppose that getting unscrewed is less important to some people than schadenfreude over others getting screwed.UrieHusky said:
Or in other worlds, if we're gonna play the "I'm going to treat anyone who has it less hard than me, but still has the audacity to complain, like a whiny brat" game, then I'm pretty sure I can one-up you on that *snicker* Sure, it wouldn't be on the specific issue of game prices, but...
Also, yes, pretty sure $100 is a placeholder.
I don't know where you are, but in Canada games have gone down in price. 59.99 to 69.99 was the usual price for a game on the NES. Now they're firmly at 59.99. During the N64 era, they were even as high as 99.99 for Zelda and 89.99 for everything else.cloroxbb said:
Video game prices have been hovering around the same amount for the longest time. I wouldn't mind paying 80 to 100 dollars but then I want all the content, on the disc, on day 1.
Games in Sweden have cost $100 or over for a while now. You should consider yourselves lucky.
Prices are probably gonna rise, as is natural, and $100 will turn into $150-200 here in Sweden, no doubt.
It's a bummer, and probably one of the causes of the high piracy rate around here. No one's got the cashish to spare for those kind of purchases.
Prices are probably gonna rise, as is natural, and $100 will turn into $150-200 here in Sweden, no doubt.
It's a bummer, and probably one of the causes of the high piracy rate around here. No one's got the cashish to spare for those kind of purchases.
