JazzB1987 said:
sabastian said:
In this world that we live in, EVERYTHING drops in price after time, EVERYTHING. Unless its a collectors piece.
Its the nature of itself. Bigger and better comes out, the newest edition comes out, black and white moves to color, 20 inch turnes to 42 inch, DVD turnes to Blu-Ray, NES moves to Gamecube...........
There is no reason for Nintendo to still charge full price for say Mario Kart Wii. NONE. Other than they think that consumers will still buy it, in which case the consumer is indeed part of the problem itself.
And gamers are not stupid. We gamers buy games, and we buy games all the time, so if your racing game comes out in January priced at $60, you better believe that we who want to play the game will go out and pick it up, but here is the catch, next year you are likely to release another racing game. More tracks, better tech, hopefully better gameplay, better graphics. You Set them both side by side on the store shelf priced at $60 each. Why in the world would any self respecting gamer pay $60 for the last years edition ?
Your logic is flawed. You are aiding Nintendo in lining their pockets, while they drain YOURS.
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So why is the PS4 400 bucks then? Its out for more than 4 months now! Why is a Intel i5 2500k and equivalent CPU now more expensive than 4 years ago? As long as a game is the newest isntallment in its franchise it can keep its price. I am not saying I dont want games to be cheaper of course I want. But i want that to happen in slow pace and with moderate price drops (moderate as in 60 -5 = 55 instead of 60 -30 = 30 because that feels like a FUCK YOU EARLY ADOPTER!)
"next year you are likely to release another racing game."
Thats the problem there is no need for annual racing games OR Fifa12 Fifa 13 Fifa 14 etc thats actually DLC content they want to sell at 60 bucks. its 10x overpriced. Annual "games" that you mention are things i dont even look at because those are not games in my opinion I am talking about "real" games.
btw "And gamers are not stupid" + buying the same game a year later for 60 which actually should be 10bucks at max is somewhat contradicting but thats just my opinion so no offense.
Make Assassins Creed and then WatchDogs and then PriceOfPersia and then start with AC again. So you dont have to lower your games price because its not competing with its own franchise. And again noone is forcing devs to offer bad value or the same game for 60 bucks.(in theory sport game devs have to buy a licence for each year BUT if they would just release DLC they would NOT HAVE to buy the same celebrity/sportsman's face/name etc)
Also price your anual game at 30 or better 20 and its not the end of the world if the same game goes down 5 bucks within 3 months. But going from 60 to 30 within a few months does not really help convincing me to buy it for 60. Whats the advantage in buying it for 60? Playing early? Making the devs rich? wow what an advantage.....
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Why is it $400 ? Because DEMAND IS STILL HIGH FOR IT... Demand for a Wii Mario Kart cartrides is NOT !!!!!
And about annual sports games, again , Technology jumps month after month, year after year. Developers learn more and more what more can be done with the hardware, so if the developer can creat better stadiums, better character movements, new roster, new moves, then the last years sport game is now what you call OUTDATED. Hence a new sports game.
Again, YOUR LOGIC IS FLAWED.
You want to support Nintendo selling you a 2008 game at $60, then go ahead. You want to support Nintendo selling you Mario Bros on the Wii-U for $10 , when you already purchased it on the Wii under your same Nintendo account priced at $10, and again on your 3DS again on your same Nintendo account priced at the same $10, THEN GO RIGHT AHEAD.
The smart gamer will use these 3 words, F U Nintendo.
