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rover on 15 May 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
That doesn't necessarily mean it flopped, though.

Of course, dropping $20 within the first couple on months means: "It's a HIT!  We just don't need that much money!"

 

 

 



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Ari_Gold on 15 May 2009

still too much, will wait for $19.99



superchunk on 15 May 2009

well, i paid $50, beat it, sold on ebay for $30 after sell/ship costs. So effectively i only paid $20. :p



LordTheNightKnight on 15 May 2009
rover said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
That doesn't necessarily mean it flopped, though.

Of course, dropping $20 within the first couple on months means: "It's a HIT!  We just don't need that much money!"

 

 

 

 

Don't pretend I claimed that.



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xlost8 on 15 May 2009

$40 for a 6 or so hour game? I will still wait for the $20 price point that seems to fit that game perfectly!



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Tecmo on 15 May 2009
Chrizum said:


MadWorld is a low budget and short game. It should have been budget-priced from the start.

 

agreed



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tastyshovelware on 15 May 2009
Chrizum said:
tastyshovelware said:
I didn't say it flopped, just that a game that is selling up to expectations doesn't see a price drop within 6 months, let alone 2.

I have never, and I mean never, seen a third party game (on any console) retain it's original price 6 months after release. 90% of all third party games have price cuts within 3 months (at least where I live).

MadWorld is a low budget and short game. It should have been budget-priced from the start.

Noted.

However, just some perspective: CoD: World at War, Sonic and Mario at the Olympics, House of the Dead Overkill, Sonic and the Black Knight, Deadly Creatures, Star Wars: Lightsaber Deul, tiger woods 09, fallout 3, street fighter 4, tales of vesperia, 50 cent: blood in the sand.... etc. all came out before madworld. several of the games even came out in the fall and they are all still at full price.

Also, I wouldn't say Madworld is low budget. Unless, of course, you think all games that take under 6 hours to beat are low budget. In which case, I guess ICO and Mirror's Edge are low budget too. 

 



loy310 on 15 May 2009
NJ5 said:
loy310 said:
Port madworld to the PS2 and watch the money pile up, PS2 gamers are starving.

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=868&region=All

Same developer, same genre... It flopped.

 

LOL, eh it's still worth a shot.



tastyshovelware on 15 May 2009
loy310 said:
NJ5 said:
loy310 said:
Port madworld to the PS2 and watch the money pile up, PS2 gamers are starving.

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=868&region=All

Members of the same developer, same genre... It flopped.

 

LOL, eh it's still worth a shot.

Fixed. Plus that game came very late in the ps2's life cycle (2006 - a month before the launch of ps3 and wii). Still, you do have a point all the same. 

 



Dallinor on 15 May 2009
Chrizum said:
tastyshovelware said:
I didn't say it flopped, just that a game that is selling up to expectations doesn't see a price drop within 6 months, let alone 2.

I have never, and I mean never, seen a third party game (on any console) retain it's original price 6 months after release. 90% of all third party games have price cuts within 3 months (at least where I live).

MadWorld is a low budget and short game. It should have been budget-priced from the start.

Call Of Duty 4 is still full price where I live in Europe.

That's an astonishing 18 months after launch.