see that's exactly my point these companies know the gamer's pretty well...the gamer's have been enticed by the game's and it show's what are the gamer's willing to shell out...their market reasearch show's gamer's are very willing to shell out $60.00+per game not just for the game's only, add in movies, other content its a very large market for a reason..that is one of the Problem's its getting to the point that $60.00+ point has become the standard..and its prob. not going away anytime soon because GAMER's seem to be happy with the price point.

when i was growing up..70's if my dad heard i would wanted a game that was even $20.00 he said it was too much, yea even if i worked for the money myself he still would complain about the price. Today it seem's that parent's reluctant also to say "NO"/just my Opinion and i fully support gameing but it's just my OPINION of the game industry as a whole, i cannot blame the companies though , hell i would do that also from personal experience with some development myself, the Industry is following pretty much how any company would go,,,"give them an inch they would take a mile ..if you let them"

$20.00 was worth so much more in the 70's. I mean the average movie ticket in 1978 was $2.34.

In the 70's weren't games like 100$ each though?

I think the 60$ is pretty justified. High dev costs, and even higher risks if the game will even do well at all. That 10$ over other console games means the game had a high budget, thus it must also be of quality. There are some stinkers either way though.

Another "interesting article", huh?

This is typical of haters, they'll swallow anything. They keep searching through all these random blogs until they find a fanboy rant to use in their propaganda.

Ive had my PS3 for over a year and im getting my moneys worth. I think next gen Microsoft will start charging Halo for online, like they do for World of Warcraft, and it will become a trend. Next will be the CoD series ect.

We are already going in that direction with Madden 10 needing a unique code to play online, so you cant buy used games if you want the most out of it.

I actually didn't know that live has ads on it. If that's true then i'm beginning to see this guy's point.
I think the PSN can support itself and it doesn't have much ads if any at all.

I regret getting Killz2. It was $69.99 at most places, but I got mine for $59.99. It was fun and all, but within a month and abit there was already a new map pack out! After about 2-3 months there was another Mappack! And now theres another one ...

There should be rules that there cant be any downloadable content until AFTER 6 months of the games release. GG obviosly had there mappacks planned out but decided to sell them on PSn instead of with the game.

The best most WORTH IT game was BF: Bad Company. That game got tons of mappacks, games modes, trophies all for FREE. Im glad I paid the $59.99 for that game.

Some games are just getting ridiculous. Look at Skate 2, you can pay 7.99 from PSN or XBL to get this pack that automatically beats the game. WTF?! Thats stupid

I was actually referring to the author of that article...

If MS is ruining gaming then why the hell am I having so much damn fun?!? 

If people hate the Xbox so much, just play the PS3 or Wii, and don't worry about what others want to play.