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Damstr8 on 30 March 2008

In my personal opinion yes, $60 for a game is absolutely ridiculous,i thought 50 was a little high but more reasonable and 60....i work extremely hard for my money,and i love games....but i cant drop that large of an amount like i used too....i only buy games nowadays for theese reasons

1: A Hyped game that i really want and was looking forward too

2: theyve been out for a while and have become budget titles


and actually my ps2 has been getting the most work out of any of my consoles(360 got red ring....damn it) because its cheap and the games are awesome....matter of fact i might go buy the MGS essential collection tomorrow....



 

 

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hufter on 30 March 2008

well it depends on where you look, second hand can be very cheap



CaptainPrefrences on 30 March 2008

when ur buying sports games, like fifa 08, nba 08, etc they usually come out in september rite? what until january of next year and the price goes down by 10 bucks

just a tip



timmytomthegreat on 30 March 2008

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

"$50 in 2000 has the same buying power as $61.47 in 2008"

games are actually getting less expensive.



vaio on 30 March 2008

Europe has been this way for a while now and the prices keep going up.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 30 March 2008
MontanaHatchet said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
I blame stagnant wages, as well as Microsoft and Sony for not having the balls to keep the prices at $50 like Nintendo and PC game makers did. They act like they're charging a premium for a real next-gen experience or whatever because they have higher resolutions, and it's costing them because people aren't falling for it. And besides, PC games look better and cost less.

Looking at the software sales of the 360, I don't know how you can say that. How did Call of Duty 4 vastly outsell its last generation predecessors when the game itself cost more than them? How come the 360 is kicking the Xbox's ass at similar points in their life spans? How did the Xbox family go from having only two games selling over 3 million to three gmes selling over 5 million?


While the 360 is a great success compared to the XBox, I'd say that's just because the XBox was an abysmal failure.  I'd say the same about the Cube sales-wise, but at least it made a profit.  I think CoD4 vastly outsold its 6th gen predecessors due to better name recognition, being a better game, being more critically acclaimed, and having better online, and being released when more gamers have their consoles connected to the internet.

But compare any of that to the Wii, and it's a different story.



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HappySqurriel on 30 March 2008

When you combine the increase in cost of the initial hardware, the increase in cost of the controllers, the increase in the cost of games, and the introduction of for-pay content downloads with shorter single player campaigns console gaming has been getting more expensive.



Mummelmann on 30 March 2008

Game prices here are outrageous in my opinion.
@rubang; I don't think Nintendo should be striken into knighthood just yet, DS and Wii games cost a little more here than PS3/360 games so this "rescue" of gaming is perhaps not enforced globally.



The Ghost of RubangB on 30 March 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Lawl.

Blame PS3 and 360 for rising costs. And Nintendo is the savior with the Wii.

What a load.

The rising cost of games is because of rising development costs, which we all know. Since most games are developed on the PC, then ported to a console of choice, they will always be cheap, because any developers worth anything can develop on the PC. Nintendo Wii games can come out at Fifty bucks because it costs less to develop for the Wii, and for most multi-platform games that it shares with PS2, it's simply a port. Like Rock Band. The Wii version is a port of the PS2 version, but it still costs 170 bucks. And this version has LESS modes than it's next-gen counterparts... So, I think I just totally debased your whole argument Rubang.

To restate:

This has nothing to do with the XBOX 360 or PlayStation 3, it has to do with development costs on those two platforms, and the fact that people are willing to pay sixty bucks for games. Look at XBOX 360 software sales. Close to 2 million this week. Doesn't look like ANYONE is having a problem buying sixty dollar games.

You're fighting and supporting the same exact argument.  It's Sony and Microsoft's fault for having higher development costs, isn't it?  They price their games accordingly, but it's still their fault for rising the cost at every step of the process.  PS360 has budget titles at $50 while Wii gets them at $30 and $40.  Hell, Link's Crossbow Training is $20 and Wii Play's basically $10 with a remote.

 

 

@Mummelmann, damn, sorry to hear that.  I didn't know Norway was getting the shaft that bad.



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Mummelmann on 30 March 2008

We get the short end of the stick most of the time... High average income = steep prices, thing is; my income is below average...