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Farsala on 21 July 2018
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Shaunodon said:
Farsala said:

I prefer Japan's pricing better, as in its all over the place and fits the game. A highly sought after game like MHW can be $70-$90, while the simple anime games are as low as $40-$60. Lower prices on launch generally have very good legs too, without having to cut the price.

Lets compare MHW, Octopath Traveler, and Smash Ultimate in Japan.

MHW was 7922 yen or $71.10.

OT was 6333 yen or $56.84.

Smash is 6705 yen or $60.18.

So you see $60 for everything isn't best imo.

Well it's documented now that Square heavily underestimated how sought after Octopath would be, which is why they're having stock issues. If they could go back they'd probably have priced it higher along with more stock. $60 hasn't stopped it from selling out in the US either, so I'm not sure why this should be relevant.

I don't really care about SE's expectations, they are usually wrong.

I personally prefer price variety. If games like CoD go up in price while JRPGs go down in price I would be happy, because then CoD buyers pay more and JRPG buyers like me pay less.