Amazon U.S. November bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

shikamaru317 said:

Alkibiádēs said:
Selling Horizon Zero Dawn for 20 bucks? Jeez, what a way to devalue your games, it's not even been out a year.

Welcome to the modern AAA business. The only publisher left that doesn't sell their games for $20 within a year of release is Nintendo. It works for them, but the other publishers would rather have higher volume sales than higher revenue per copy sold, they want to get as many people playing their games as possible before the sequel releases so that the sequel will be even more successful at release. 

I guess that makes sense, but it's kind of sad. I wonder how much total profit the developer made from the game? Honestly it's so good it should have been discounted at 45$ at most.

Also kinda sucks because I got it for 60$ in June right before it was discounted for 40$ xD