Warner Bother: Jimquisition takes a stab at WB

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MikeRox said:

foodfather said:
To be honest, 8th Gen prices are still around £44 - 49 RRP. Not sure you can find a next gen game for less than £40 unless its been out for a month of two.

In general, install base / attach rate has increased with the rise in development costs.

They still need sales beyond launch week.. I took a quick look on shopto and even stuff like Mortal Kombat X had hit the £40 mark. Even with that, it's still clearly way below historic prices. I stated this was offset by increases in userbases. However that has now halted so something is going to give somewhere.

It's either going to be higher prices, more necessity to sell add ons/DLC or developers going bust, and we saw a good chunk of the latter last gen.

I think what you forget with UK prices is pound to dollar conversion, for every £40 game it's converted to $60/$70 depending on rates. Also MKX is a bad example as fighting games are historically extremely cheap to produce, even with all the cutscenes they likely didn't pass $20/30m for it's development unlike say Arkham Knight which is open world so will quite likely hit $50/100 million for development of everything. Plus sales volume counts, if they hit 10 to 15 million copies they'll be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars for Arkham. So do they need to do it? Nah. Will they do it? Of course. Companies do whatever they can to make money. Customers are always secondary to shareholders.

To be completely honest I think Warner would of been a lot smarter splitting the bat girl dlc off as a stand alone for $15. It takes away from the sting of a $100 game. Really it does kind of boil down to will people stand for this? Some will, smarter consumers will wait for the GOTY/Ultimate edition where it's all bundled together. The only reason any company can do stuff like this is if consumers pay for it. If they don't they'll try something else.

For everything against them with this stuff Warner still kick EA's arse at the moment. Arkham Origins was the first properly bad/buggy game they've put out in a long time, EA do it annually with various series.