DonFerrari said:
GoOnKid said:
Some people think the price of Labo is too high because the development costs must have been quite low. But there are two major flaws with this logic:
1) We don't know how high the development costs are. Simple as that. Guessing and comparing to other titles won't work here because Labo is not comparable at all.
2) It doesn't even matter how high they have been in the end, because the only thing that matters is the price and the perceived value the consumer expects from a purchase. If the perceived value doesn't match the price tag, then you simply don't buy it. End of story. If you think that the price is okay and you will enjoy many hours with it, you buy it.
Production costs have nothing to do in this thinking process because the consumer should never be the one who needs to iron out how little a developer can handle money. The consumer should never feel the need to help the developer recoup on the production costs. The consumer shouldn't care if the oh so poor developer spent oh so many work into this game and it cost oh so many big piles of money. Because if we applied this method of thinking to other games, we would see that Destiny, FFXV or Duke Nukem Forever must had a price of several hundreds of $. But they don't. Strange, isn't it?
Back to Labo: yes, there is a correlation between the price and the sales volume. Everybody understands that. Labo sells, but it doesn't set the world on fire. If the price was lower, it could sell more units, obviously. But all I'm saying is that if you really want to lament on the price, then lament on the content and not on the production values. And even then, the content and the value you get out of it is completely up to you. It gives you the tools, you just need to use them by yourself.
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So as a customer you never looked at any product and thought the price was to high because it didn't look like it costed a lot to make it? May surprise you, but that is the main thing in consumer electronics and reason me and a lot of people avoid iPhones.
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No, I compare the price to how much I want to have a certain product and what alternatives there are.
Doesn't surprise me anymore since you've already mentioned that like a thousand times. Funny side note: I avoid iPhones, too. High Five. For different reasons, though, but still.
