basically this.  That is why I did not bought Rayman.  60 bucks for a 2D sidescroller? It should have been a $15 PSN/XBLA title.

I understand why they cost as much as they did.

I just wanted to correct you.

i waited for the price to drop for it 2 and got it free with my vita instead cause even though i loved the demo and it had amazing reviews that game isn't worth 60 its like a 10-20 dollar psn title, but a little longer then most so 30 is the most they shuld have released it for plus, it was dumb to make it a disc game in the first place

$60 is no different than their PS3/Xbox 360 counterparts, so no; Wii U games should not be priced the same as Wii games.

The real issue here is whether the default price for all console (and increasingly for new release PC games) should automatically be $60, when there is a huge disparity in production and marketing budgets between various games being sold at the same price.

Sure, this is how it is in the movie industry where a ticket costs the same regardless of whether a film is an indy film made on a shoestring budget, or Avatar, made for a quarter of a billion, but with games being a license and or piece of inventory, the two products being sold aren't comparable.

But as the boxed game retail model decreases in relevance, it's likely there will continue to be a shift in terms of tiered game pricing for new release titles as we have already been seeing with games distributed through DD services like PSN, XBL and Steam.

So maybe the question is which games being sold for the box retail model should be allowed to get away with being priced at $60, regardless of platform, because there are plenty of games being released as such specifically because so many consumers have been conditioned to pay standard box retail prices for anything that isn't clearly a low budget release.

Okay, what are you talking about now? Did I say anything about a games fun factor or am I talking about what the game offers? I'm no a CoD fanboy or anything but it has Co-op a single player and a multiplayer people play for years. Whether it is all rehashed and reused over and over isn't my point. My point is a game with more things to do is worth more. NSMB series hasn't done anything really with nsmb2 or nsmbu and honestly shouldn't be a expensive game. By your logic NSMBU should be the Same release price as Uncharted 3 was? Am I correct? All i know a typical sidescroller whether mario rayman megaman etc seem overpriced at 60. I'm a BIG Megaman fan, but if they made a new Megaman game that was Megaman X series, and it was 60, i wouldn't buy it till it atleast hit 40. But if it was Megaman Legends 3 on PS3 or something and it was over 20 hours and so on I'd pay 60 for that hands down. It depends on the game. The only sidescroller I can easily pay 60 for is a LBP and thats because its online 4-player and has all kinds of otber things and has millions of stages(over 7 million). Also has different things like racing, top down rpgs, i played a rpg someone entirely made where you buy armor abd so on and its like a hour. So point is, don't flip what i said. I don't care what the fun factor is for the simple reason people have different opinions. Me one of my most anticipated games this year is Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and I see alot of haters, saying its a MK7 clone yet its not like it other then the genre. I loved the first game also. I also think the Sonic the Hedgehog '06 wasn't that bad other then The lack of debugging and i loved silvers gameplay since most hated it. 

$60 is cheap but it was expected. Only Sony and MS will dare to increase the price to $70 in next gen. We will see, it depends on the big publishers too.

But I agree with the guy who said it sucks that games drop in price so fast. It sucks to buy a game at $60 and perhaps you don't have the time to play it for a couple of months and all of a sudden discover that it's sold at half price.

60$ is too much for all consoles, the price kills software titles for smaller marketed games. If PS4/720 goes to 70$, then I do not think many games will be bought until it becomes used. Slightly like the Japanese market.

$1 per hour is still the limit. if the game is short don't buy it.

The prices doesn't bother me at all, besides i only pay full price for selected games. If i don't want to pay full price, in less than a year, you could find the game at half price, but we all know the problem with nintendo, the prices will be the same for years.

Nothing wrong with the $60 price tag, except you can't price everything the same. A game like mario is made so many times that it does not take that much effort to build a game. There should be tier system in pricing according to quality of games.