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LordTheNightKnight on 06 August 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

It doesn't matter what I want. I'll get the game when I need it. The point is you claiming the game will not sell well at full price, to people other than us, and you have given no proof.

What would you like him to prove exactly? 

That re-released games usually sell fewer units than their counterparts? 

That a lower price generates more sales?

I think it's perfectly logical to say that a game that has been on the market for some time being re-released at full price (if on a different platform) is likely to sell fewer copies than it would without those two facets.

 

A re-release is the same game on the same system. This is a port.

And it doesn't have to outsell the 360 version. It just has to turn a profit.

And since the game has to remake most of the assets, unlike RE4 Wii, they can't exactly sell it at a bargain price.



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Words Of Wisdom on 06 August 2008
LordTheNightKnight said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

It doesn't matter what I want. I'll get the game when I need it. The point is you claiming the game will not sell well at full price, to people other than us, and you have given no proof.

What would you like him to prove exactly? 

That re-released games usually sell fewer units than their counterparts? 

That a lower price generates more sales?

I think it's perfectly logical to say that a game that has been on the market for some time being re-released at full price (if on a different platform) is likely to sell fewer copies than it would without those two facets.

 

A re-release is the same game on the same system. This is a port.

And it doesn't have to outsell the 360 version. It just has to turn a profit.

And since the game has to remake most of the assets, unlike RE4 Wii, they can't exactly sell it at a bargain price.


I think that's where risk assessment and cost/benefit analysis should kick in.  I assume Capcom has a pretty fair idea what they're doing (if they didn't smell profit, they wouldn't do it after all), but I think it's a fair point to say that it's unlikely to see this version outsell its counterparts (especially at full price).

I believe that was DMJ's point.

 



LordTheNightKnight on 06 August 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

It doesn't matter what I want. I'll get the game when I need it. The point is you claiming the game will not sell well at full price, to people other than us, and you have given no proof.

What would you like him to prove exactly? 

That re-released games usually sell fewer units than their counterparts? 

That a lower price generates more sales?

I think it's perfectly logical to say that a game that has been on the market for some time being re-released at full price (if on a different platform) is likely to sell fewer copies than it would without those two facets.

 

A re-release is the same game on the same system. This is a port.

And it doesn't have to outsell the 360 version. It just has to turn a profit.

And since the game has to remake most of the assets, unlike RE4 Wii, they can't exactly sell it at a bargain price.


I think that's where risk assessment and cost/benefit analysis should kick in.  I assume Capcom has a pretty fair idea what they're doing (if they didn't smell profit, they wouldn't do it after all), but I think it's a fair point to say that it's unlikely to see this version outsell its counterparts (especially at full price).

I believe that was DMJ's point.

 

 

No, he was claiming the game is sure to sell at bargain price, because it's a port of an older game, forgetting that the bargain price ports on the Wii are from less powerful systems, not more.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

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Madanial on 06 August 2008

40$ ain't cheap but not too expensive IMO,It'll be ok for me if they do it as good as they did on RE4 Wii. :D



leader_e on 06 August 2008

i will buy it even if its 50$ cuz i've never played the first 1



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kira hibiki on 06 August 2008

I think with a lower price it could do wonders, but I think $40 seems alright to me.



Sqrl on 06 August 2008
NJ5 said:
kingofwale said:
NJ5 said:
kingofwale said:
when has "larger text" considered an "improvement"????

I mean, i know people jokingly say that Wii is for older people, but this is getting ridiculous.

I think you're playing dumb, but... for example, I would very much welcome if GTA4 had larger text. At times, I can barely read it on my 32'' screen from a near distance.

 

 

there's a need to read text in GTAIV??? I also play mine at 32 inch Sony TV, and I never actually need to read much of anything.

 

no, I wasn't playing dumb, listing "Larger text" as some kind of "feature" is just sad. I said the same thing about IPhone 3G with non-recessive headphone port, and I'm saying it again about this.

Cellphone messages. If I remember correctly, that's what I had trouble reading.

 

I don't know how the only person to mention this is someone who doesn't own the game but you can increase the size of text in the game.  Its in the cell phone menu.

 

And yes you do need to read in the game.

 
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theRepublic on 06 August 2008
superchunk said:
This game is shaping up well. I wonder what it's price will be? $30 or $40 would be fantastic. Wasn't RE4:Wii Edition only $30?

I'm fairly certain that RE4 started at $40, and then fell to $30 fairly quickly.  I wouldn't be surprised if the same happened to Dead Rising.



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Daileon on 06 August 2008

Capcom have said that their expectations about this game is 500k units WW, so I think that with a $40 they can reach that mark quite easily and make a very good profit. After that, surely they CAN (not that they will do) lower the price to sell more units...



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NJ5 on 06 August 2008
DMeisterJ said:

And I think Capcom has learned their lesson about Full-priced port-makes.

Don't do it.

I don't know why we're arguing though, you too should want the game to be budget priced, it'd be much easier to sell that way.


It's not about what I want... It's about what will happen. I'm not saying it will go one way or another, just saying it's not certain that it will be budget priced. It's possible, but not certain.

 



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