ils411 said:
Depends on who you're asking. I have Persona 4 and its one damn awesome game! But I only play it every now and then for a bout 30 mins or so. Then I go back to farming in Ragnarok Odyssey where I've already clocked in over 180+ hours. Different folks, different strokes I guess. Anyways, $40 for VLR is too much indeed. I understand that they are a small developer and they need to charge higher, but I think that if they released it at $35, they'd probably have sold a lot more copies. As the Chinese say, "doesn't matter if we sell low, as long as we sell a shit load". Not to mention that the game is a niche title. Its hard to get people to try it out at $40 a pop. As for balck ops declassified, is it really that bad? both single and multiplayer? I dont really care much for it really, nor do I care for any FPS game, but I'm thinking of getting at least one FPS game that has adhoc so that I can play with my son. Yes, I know, my son is 5 and I'm letting him playing a war game...I'm a horrible father...ahahah! Not to mention my intention to go out and dominate him on the fps...I am one BAD father ahahaha! |
Bolded:EXACTLY!!! This is partly why the small iphone games do so well, and the HD generations of games are failing. Hardcore gamers are fairly good at percieved value from looking at a game. We all have at least basic understanding of what goes into these games to be made, and sometimes the full price doesn't cut it. Basically ig goes like this....
-$5 for the Cartridge its on, 1.50 for the packaging, $3 is Sony's cut, the rest goes to developer to cover costs and make profit.
-out of a $40 game, that comes to $9.50 in derivitive cost for each game sold at full price. Leaves $30.50 to be devided amongst the develoepers needs. The idea behind this is that you "know" your game is not going to sell butt tons so you want to maximize profit gained on each individual item. Sneakers and food industry works the same way, costs them like 10-50 cents to make, they charge you at least 10 times that.
-Yet what this does is CREATE a barrier of entry for anyone who wants it. Less people can buy it because it costs more.
-What small app games and smartphone industry is realizing is that if you sell something that only demands $2 of initial costs at $4, you will see 3+ times as many buyers as you would if you sold it at $10 in an attempt to maximize profit margin. In the long run, the products with less distance between what it costs to make them and what they charge do better in the short and long term.
-The trick is that the common consumer does not want to think they are gettingg even amount for their money , definitely doesn't want to pay more than the product is worth. Consumers want to feel like they are getting something for almost nothing, or at least pay less than what the current "market worth" tells us it is.
-Just think, If the Sneaker industry stop selling at like a 120%+ profit margin, they could see a lot more sales then they already do, only thing stopping them is their greed. If Sneakers cost something like 30 dollars as opposed to the 150+ they often do(remember, it costs like 50 cents to fully produce a sneaker), more people would be in a serious rush to get them to the point of quadrupling their existing customer base and then some. This would require more shoes to be made on the regular which also means they could hire more people and expand the job economy, etc. If everything was based on this truth, we wouldn't even be in a recession right now :/
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