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I don't think game prices are likely to come done even if costs plummet, the companies know that gamers have accepted the $50 (and now $60 blech) price point and won't have any motivation to drop the price. They'll just make more games. Which I think is definitely a mistake, just look at how well all the $20 Touch Generations DS games have been doing. It definitely seems strange that the console makers aren't doing more to develop console-specific middleware engines themselves. It'd net them more exclusives and more profit by licensing out the engine. You know Nintendo at least makes their own engines for their systems, maybe they're still thinking like they're competing as a software company and want to maintain that edge over other games or something. It's bizarre.