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Forums - General Discussion - $59.99. Who determines a video game's standard price?

SKMBlake said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Too low? They make hundreds of millions in profit by selling AAA games at $60. How on earth is that too low?

Let's take a popular game: Super Mario Bros. released on the NES in 1985. In today's standard, it's an AAA game. But only 4 people were involved in its development. And still can be selled at full price.

Today, an AAA game demands hundreds of people involved in its development (and assets bought to several companies or developers) but still costs the same 60$ as the 60$ game you bought 10 years ago.

 

The same thing happened with the film industry. A 2017 blockbuster costs at least 250 millions $ so they have to hope people will eventually see their movie to make benefits.

Movies still have this big advantage. A blockbuster production doesn't have to share its cinema audience simultaneously with torrents of independent productions and movies of yeasteryear.



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Maybe supply and demand. Maybe they do surveys to determine that price. Just speculating though.