$59.99. Who determines a video game's standard price?

[Teeqoz]

Veknoid_Outcast said:

Teeqoz said:

C'mon Veknoid... What EA said is that their projected earnings for the entire fiscal 18 year won't be materially impacted by the temporary shutdown in microtransactions for Battlefront 2. For a company that makes about a billion dollars in profit each year, it's easy to believe that a short shutdown of microtransactions in a single title won't impact it too much, but that does little to disprove his claim...

Without full access to game budgets, we can't know for sure either way. In the absence of hard data to support either side, we're left with circumstantial evidence like that investor report. Maybe it doesn't disprove the claim, but has anyone, anywhere, proven it?

After catching EA, Activision, WB, et al. with their pants down, I'm going to remain skeptical. 

We do know that game budgets have been increasing while game prices didn't. We do know that plenty of companies went bankrupt due to this during the 7th gen. Those seem like pretty good indicators of his point to me..