“Next-gen” pricing not sitting well with game-buyers

Why the fuck did you not put it under “No shit Sherlock” then? I’m disappointed big time here

Oh really?

Edit: Actually I wouldn’t mind paying $60 for a game, cause right now I pay around $84 for them. >:|

Im amazed they’re still calling it “Next Gen”!

I am fine with it… Just don’t expect me to rush out and buy 5 or 6 in one fall.

I’m not. Games are too damn expensive. I like to own them, but I might have to start renting…….a lot.

Prices are not too expensive. Fifteen years ago I remember paying around 40 squids (70-75 greens) for a Ninty game. Now I pay……er……around 40 squids for PS3 game. So, in real terms, adjusted for inflation, games today cost f*ck-all compared to then. So quit complaining. ;o)

So we are not the generation x no more?that sucks!!

@RevolutionBlues: That’s high priced too, but that doesn’t mean what we have now is cheap because it’s lower. wtf

Define cheap. There is no such thing my friend; it is all relative and highly subjective. To some, ten pounds wouldn’t be cheap enough for a disk-based game. To others, like me, the current cost is perfectly acceptable.

Think about how much games cost to make and market these days – probably ten times what they did fifteen years ago if not much more, and in real terms too (i.e. factoring in inflation). Yet, in real terms also, games cost less than a third of the price they did then. But anyway, the game makers aren’t charities but business looking to make a profit to 1) reward their investors and 2) invest in new games for the future. How can they raise funding to keep the new products coming if they don’t turn good profits?

Finally, games have an RRP around twice that of movie DVDs/BDs, which may have already made tens or even hundreds of millions of profit for the producers at the box office. Yet games such as GTAIV and MGS4 cost the same as a medium-sized movie production. There’s another *relative* example of how games aren’t too expensive.

We in the West have spent too long being spoiled rotten by the anti-inflationary – and in many areas, deflationary – effect of a rapidly-growing Chinese economy.

Compared to the US and Japan games in Europe are expensive no matter what you see as cheap or expensive.