Will we start to see an increase in the price of games?

[Ail]

CrazyHorse said:

Ail said:

I doubt you will see price increase for games outside of England.
If the pound stays weak for 12 more months though, price of games are going to be the least of your worries though.
Price of many imported commodities is going to rise too....( in England that is).

 

And people need to stop getting into their head that Activision is raising price because it's evil.

It's raising price because the Pound has been weak for a significant amount of time and it doesn't look like it will get any stronger soon.....

If you want to blame someone, blame the Citi for playing so much with leverage in it's investments and your country for deciding to snob the Euro.

 

While I accept Activision have raised the price of MW2 largely due to the weak pound I still worry that the increasing development costs will not be able to be sustained with the current price of games. I doubt developers will be able to keep costs at the current level as I don't see the industry performing well if it doesn't continue to progress (whether that be through continued improvement in game production or through innovation).

Very doubtfull.

For one thing as the generation gets older development costs are going down ( developer knows the hardware better and can reuse code from earlier games developed this gen) and install base are growing to a point where releasing games is less risky( releasing games during the first year of the 360 or the PS3 wasn't something that was going to bring any significant amount of money).