Hell yes it's too much... and considering in the UK games are releasing at £54.95 (that's $90), you can consider yourselves lucky over in USA, but I still think it's too much. $60 is about £37, which is about what Wii U and 3DS games release at (usually £35.99), but other consoles routinely release at £45+ with a few key games (namely the last two Call Of Duty games and GTA V) releasing at £54.95. The average collector's edition runs us £80+ (that's $132), and now you can see we're into ridiculous plus stupid pricing.
Honestly I'd be happy for people to switch to a standard 6-10 hour game with a reduced budget if it meant games where £15 at release. Take GTA 4 as a perfect example. I would have happily bought Ballad Of Gay Tony and The Lost & The Damned as separate games in their own right. I think, shorter, more focused, cheaper games are the way forward... though not Ground Zeroes short. If it takes me longer to have a shit than it does to finish your game, it's too fucking short.
But yeah, price wise, I almost never spend more than £20 ($33) on a game so prices going up and up are simply pricing me and other gamers like me out of the market and forcing me to buy second hand. Publishers say they don't make enough money so have to raise prices but I bet if they lowered prices they'd make up the difference in sales. Imagine if any one publisher started putting out games at say $35 for new releases. Compared to their competition they're a bargain, consumers would snap them up and it'll take a massive chunk out of the used market as people who couldn't previously buy new now can.
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