| forevercloud3000 said:
You basically just equated the game industry to a bunch of talentless hacks who peddle graphics as a differeciator due to having no vision to expand in other ways.......which is an entire nother problem within itself. That basically calls it the movie industry. And if it is the movie industry we know that movie theatre costs have been the same for decades now even though the movies they show budgets have skyrocketed.....yet they are making record profits constantly and movies are the same length and or longer. Why? because they are on the same premise that smartphone apps are. If you sweeten the package instead of increasing price adjacent to what you are offering you encourage more and more sales. Price is always barrier to entry so even if you are only making a penny off of each thing sold but you only charge 2 cents, you are much more likely to get 10million sold, as opposed to charging 5 bucks where you only sell about 10,000. I am not saying game prices should drop but if they were packing these games with more content(and entertainment) you would have less trade ins and encourage more people to buy it simply because it is a better deal overall. |
I don't know where you live, but 20 years ago a movie ticket cost me 6 bucks. Today it costs me 16.50. Matinees cost me 11. The prices have gone up just like movie budgets have. May not be on the same scale, but they have increased. Games on the other hand have seen increased budgets and steady base costs.
