For the most part games have gone up $10 for the last couple of gens, right? I remember $40 PS1 games, $50 PS2 games, and now $60 PS3 games. I know Wii does $50 and N64 was $50 too or something. Anyway, now with DLC and digital distribution methods games might stay at $60. They might even be more accurately priced, like Vita games run a gambit of pricing schemes. Some games today launched at lower price points, like Catherine. I hope we see that next gen.
Console prices will be around the same if not cheaper as for inflation. I see $300 to $500 consoles next gen. BTW because I see some much misinformation out there, PS3 launched at $499 20gb and $599 60gb. Really people should be saying $499. Hopefully $499 is the ceiling for next gen's high end model price point or they should just get rid of large internal hard drives and just put in a small SSD and let us buy external, even their marketed brand external.
Wii U is under scrutiny for their controller obviously but there is no way it will be over $100. Controllers won't be that great of a source of revenue for them as controllers are normally. As for the other companies, we have no idea what they are planing on doing. (lol, Sony could even have Vita's as their next controller, but even if production costs went down and it had a redesign as well as double battery life it'd still be expensive. That and it would be a strain having accounts across devices. Maybe a stripped down version that's non-portable and designed more like a daulshock, but that would be the same boat Nintendo is in. Probably just a new daulshock model)
Development costs will go up for big games, but online distribution has made plenty of lower cost amazing games so we will see variety.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
