EricHiggin said:
Soundwave said:
I grew up close to the US/Canada border, I remember my dad paid $90 for Super Mario Bros. 3 back in the day, lol. Street Fighter 2 on the Super NES was marked up by some retailers to that as well. $80 CAD/pop for N64 games for 3rd party games was pretty standard too. They do want to hike the price of games, Capcom's president even openly admitted that he feels games should cost more, it's just a delicate balancing act for them, it's coming, but in the mean time they really like that GAAS model. Why settle for $80 when you can sucker gamers into getting $100+. I imagine GTA6 is going to have a heavy GAAS component. |
That's why I think it's weird. The industry is calling for higher prices, yet SNY isn't doing it. They typically lead when it comes to moves like this. Maybe just because their image isn't as peachy as it was for PS4 so they're more careful about making these moves perhaps. I agree, GTA VI online is going to 'bankrupt' many casuals. I have to assume SNY and MS are battling for some type of partnership for that very game. The profits are going to be astronomical. Soundwave said:
Those decisions were probably made a while ago, recently now Sony themselves came out and said they must invest more into GAAS titles, so that basically tells you where their head is at today. Their new president is talking all about how they must get higher margins and wants more multiplatform games. |
I can't see why they couldn't go from let's give it away free to let's charge $20 or $30 or whatever, as they got closer to launch and realized more income would totally be beneficial and not just from a pure greed perspective considering the layoffs. |
Gta 6 will be a dissapointment, if ff7 rebith was one. I don't the ms or sony will be jumpojg with joy. They probably won't thinl the profits are good enough.
