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

[Teeqoz]

Ka-pi96 said:

Teeqoz said:

Sure, you could argue that "Deluxe editions" and editions that include season passes are effectively an increase in game prices.

The thing is, though, that the trends point to more and more people not waiting for pricecuts. Games are, in general becoming more frontloaded.

Is there actually evidence to suggest that game sales overall are becoming more frontloaded? Or just physical game sales? It makes sense to me that digital sales would be less frontloaded than physical, given that physical copies will eventually stop being produced, they're much more attractive as impulse purchases, and of course there are some pretty good digital sales later on in a games life. It could perhaps be that with a greater shift to digital it appears games are more frontloaded, but that's more because later buyers are much more likely to go digital than they were previously.

Besides, Gran Turismo Sport is a very recent example of a game that initally underperformed, had some price drops and then its sales picked up.

Sure, I'll give you those points - we don't have data for digital, and it seems likely that the digital ratio of a title should increase over time as the game remains easy to find digitally but becomes harder and harder to find phyiscally.

As for GT Sport, well, you can always find a few outliers, but they are just that - outliers.

Last edited by Teeqoz - on 02 January 2018