News "Games should cost £70 in the future"

Think I paid £70 for streetfighter on SNES to get an early copy, difference there is you knew the game was good, played it loads in teh arcade and it was a top notch conversion, there have not been a lot of titles i'd pay more than £30 let alone £70 over the past few years despite pretty graphics.

 

I would NEVER pay £70 for a game, it's a ridiculous thing to do and would encourage future silly price hikes.
If you pay out £70 for one game thinking " oh I'll pay this because it's a flawless game, no patches needed and it's really really good" then it'll only encourage others to try and get away with the same and as always, standards slip, development costs will be blamed and prices will go up again.

 

Hm.

Solution: Stop going for the best graphics and go for something that's actually good, instead.

Better for everyone :/

 

i think the quote should have been "games should cost £70 in the future.... to make back the money sony lost making the ps3"

 

Just stop chasing graphics, then! Easy! Simple! Maybe then developers/publishers can pay the bloke who thinks up the plot a little more and come up with an original, interesting and above all long plot! No more games that are 98% graphics, 1% mechanics and 1% crappy half-baked attempt at 'a story'.

Because there is no way in Hell I'm paying £70 for a game. I won't even pay £50 in the high street for a game.

Let's go have a look at what is selling on Play.com right now...

• Three of the top ten XBox360 sellers are less than £10. Four of the remaining seven are less than £20. The other three are non-games.

• One of the top ten PS3 sellers is less than £10. Three of the remaining nine are less than £20. Four are £30 or more. Two are not games.

• I'm not going to look at the Wii as most of the list there have games that come with hardware bundled, which pushes the prices up.

• Five of the top ten PC games sellers are less than £10. Four of the remaining five are less than £20. One (Sims 3) is £30.

That tells me that people are more willing to buy a game when the price drops. Raising prices is patently daft. Of course, then maybe they can complain about "Piracy is killing us! Look, nothing's selling!"

Yup. Last game I played on the PC that I got more than 8 hours of play out of was Sins of a Solar Empire. Game before that was Civilisation IV. Both games that are designed to last. I haven't had an action game take more more than 8 hours since Max Payne 1. Max Payne 2 was a record for me: completed it in five hours, the day I installed it.

On consoles it's a slightly different kettle of fish for me; I mostly play JRPGs, which by design have a tendency to last for at least 20 hours.... and usually more if I decide to try to do everything. I'm well into the 90 hour mark for Disgaea 3 now.

Agreed! Problem is, that's a little harder on consoles, since every indie game needs to get through Microsoft/Sony testing.

 

lmfao sony just hates gaming

(sarcasm)hey look at it this way itll push up the price of pre owned games and we all make a fortune on selling our old games that we have at the moment lol(/sarcasm)

ludacris

id say this is a case of aiming high so when the price does raise they can say hey, atleast its not £70 as we thought originally

i for one will not pay a penny more than i pay at the moment. i dont play into the game of greedy publishers. if it cost more than the rest i simply wont buy.

and another point graphics dont make the game

 

errrrrrrrrrrr no!

games are already expensive enough as it is ¬_¬

 

To be fair to the corporate mouth piece, he did say that people wouldn't pay it as its beyond the current psychological barrier. All he's saying is that to make the profits they'd like to they would like to charge more, find me a company that doesn't think that and i'll show you one thats going out of business.

 

When the manufacturing costs of the PS3 have fallen by about 70%, (link) and Sony still haven't issued a price cut, it's no wonder that an ex-Sony exec is suggesting that prices of games go up by a large margin.

 

If they do try and sell games at £70 then I will just wait until they have been around for ages and buy them cheap when they are considered old games. I can only see this adding to the problem of people pirating games, also could see this being a big boost to second hand games which all the developers complain about anyway because they don't get a share of the resale.

 

bah! I rareley pay more that 30 for a game, more often I'll wait till stuff hits the 20/25 mark. Increasing prices will only drive up second hand sales & kill the market for DLC (Why buy DLC when you will sell the game on?)

 

All that will happen is that 90+% of the market will wait until the game is in the bargain bin or will pirate it. The other few percent will be people with more money than sense that will pay any price because they are dumb.
I would never pay more than £40 for any game unless it was something like "Better Than Life" from Red Dwarf.
Pah, £70, you must think I'm stupid. I'll keep my money thanks.

 

indeed, graphics making games cost more?
lets look at the orange box shall we? no game there is smth you could consider 'top of the line' when it comes to graphics, but all games are superb and keep on selling...
and the developers should look at the steam statistics when games are on discount - if i remember correctly, it was smth like 1300% increased sales with a 75% discount.

So, developers, what is better, to sell n games for 50$ each, or sell n x 13 games for 10$?

 

will the price increase affect the pc or will it just be the consles that are affected.

if it is then i'll just sell my ps3 and upgrade my pc.
but in all honesty theres only one game which i would pay that much for and it'll be modern warfare 2 as it will have good online gameplay, but £70
i would send a letter to sony with just two words f*** off and a picture of my pc

 

its not gonna happen hes talking out his hole

 

What a coincidence... just as the prices go to £70, I decide to never buy a game again. Weird!

 

I can just imagine telling "she who must be obeyed" that I spent £70.00 on a game.

How much did you spend on the that bunch of flowers for me ............. £2.50 from Tesco.
and the last meal you took me out for.............. £20.00 at the local inc. drinks.

How much play time WERE you gonig to get with me compared to your stupid game?

Back to BF1942 $6.00 from Amazon

 

Ha, yeah, that might end badly for you!

 

This will end in tears and cries, and i will love every second of it!

 

Gaikai can't come out soon enough.