Barozi said:
"Games this gen are also selling far better now then they were in the year 2000." Nowadays games are also far more expensive to develop than games in the 2000s. PS2 games only had a budget of a few millions. You'd need at least a million or two in extra sales to break even on 7th and 8th gen games. For EVERY SINGLE game. "COD franchise is more popular than ever" Where did you get that from? The best selling CoD games were from the PS3/360 era. "Many other franchises like Uncharted, Witcher 3, NBA 2K and more are selling better than ever this gen" I can list several franchises that are in decline: Just Dance, Gran Turismo, Battlefield etc. What's your point again? "The gaming industry has also grown exponentially since the PS2 era and will only keep growing." The gaming industry as a whole - yes, but the console market has NOT grown exponentially. 50% of the revenue comes from smartphone-, tablet- and casual browser games. How does that help the devs and publishers of console and PC games again? "also there's DLC, Microt-transactions, digital distribution that cuts out the middle man, making more money for these developers." Which was exactly the reason why the $10 raise didn't come earlier. |
1.I'm acknowledging that game development has risen significantly since the PS2 era, my point is that the increased AAA game sales,DLC, and micro-transactions more than makes up for these rising development costs.
2.Modern Warfare 2019 is on pace to become the bestselling game of the series, plus Activison also gets revenue from Micro-transactions in the game.
3.The amount of franchises growing this gen is far exceeding the ones on a decline. Plus even if they're on a decline, they're still more than profitable for these developers. And why in the world does a relatively small budget game Just dance needs a price hike? The game's budget is barely increasing if at all since it doesn't have to deal with creating worlds or environments, using Just Dance's decline is an extremely bad example.
4.Console gaming is growing, total console sales been growing gen after gen and also console revenue. Market share revenue for consoles does not show it growing because it's slighty losing market share to the other game platforms since the others are growing faster. It doesn't mean that console gaming is not growing, it just means console gaming isn't growing quite as fast as the others.
5.Why should it come now if developers are doing more than fine with DLC & Micro-transactions?