Azzanation said:
Thats absolutely nonsense. Not all MTs are the same. Some MTs actually release after the game was launched and some $60 games also offer a wealth of content while also offering MTs. Yes, you have games that offer bad MTs like where they purposely extend grinds or actually remove content from the games. However you are just generalizing the MT system. I'll give you a perfect exactly. I've played WoW since 2005. Over the years Blizzard added some MTs like Store Mounts and Pets, stuff that wouldn't exist 15 years ago. They cost as much as the $10 price tag that current games are raised to, and id argue that WoW has more content than any game you can point out that cost $70 today. No game this gen has justified the extra $10. Nothing we haven't seen last gen or even the gen before that, so far. Also the PS3 and 360 was billions on hardware and they couldn't recoup that, Xbox might have, with its Subscription service, but no figures are out and we can only do our own maths on it. PS5 and XSX are not systems in the same situation. This inflation crap is nothing Sony, Nintendo and Xbox cannot just eat up, as they are making more money than they ever have with Subs, software and overall sales. They are just making excuses to justify the price hike. They are multi-billion dollar profitable companies. They just want to please their share holder pockets and making you pay more for literally nothing extra. |
New stuff can be added through DLC instead of MTX, so there is nothing MTX really add except of money rolling through pubs pocket.
Sure companies can eat the cost. But if you look for the sources that were already given in this thread, PS revenue and profit have dropped on the past year or two, so they aren't making more money they are making less, so now is it justified?
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."