Dno said:
NJ5 said:
Dno said:
best quote of the tread... if i am gonna spend my 65 bucks (10 bucks more then last gen almost one hundred freaking dollars!!!!!) on a game it better be fucking awesome.... most games this gen are not but there are some gems.
i cant believe a poster is willing to accept underpar games so the greedy company can make MORE money out of us.... we are stupid consumers and companies will keep on rapping us because we will still buy crap.
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The thing is, most companies are not making money during this gen. They make a lot of money on a few blockbusters but then blow it all on other games which don't make profits.
You can bet that if all games cost less than $50, a lot of studios would not exist today.
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thats not true. M$ first games in 2005 were 50 bucks each all sold well and made a profit. the 60 dollars is just to get more money out of us because of stores like gamestop and used game sales. they tested gamers to see if we would buy a game for more then 50 bucks and we all fell for it. If companies were worried about sales so much they should of pushed one system that sells world wide and made all the games on that... ( like in the past ps1 ps2, now the wii etc). game devs costs went up thats for sure and people are losing a lot of money thats for sure but that because devs made games on different consoles and took bribe money from all console markers. the jp devs are suffering the most because they choose to make games on xbox and not the wii and the ps3. they are suffering because of bad choices not because of a 50 or 60 dollar price tags. if all those RPGS that were only on xbox came out for the pswii the fan base would be much larger in japan and they would not be in this mess.
Also there is another reason companies are going out of business and thats called a recession. (which i would place my money on that being the most inportant factor since you can always make cheap games on DS and psp and now XBL, Wii ware and PSN)
Lastly we must not forget that all PC games are still 50 bucks... why is that?
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Games published by MS are a different matter, as they don't pay licensing fees to themselves. With PC games there are no licensing fees involved, that's why they're cheaper.
EA, Take 2, THQ and now Ubisoft as well aren't making money. Activision-Blizzard is, but judging from their reports it looks like most or all of it comes from Blizzard.
Those are 4 or 5 of the biggest publishers, if not the biggest.
