Price of next-gen games influence your choice?
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I saw this over at Gamespot. It's the rumor at the bottom, about $60 US for Box 360 games.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/03/news_6126948.html
Since I live in Canada, that comes to about $78 Cdn, $89 with tax. That's a fucking lot of money. Anyways. When I first read that, I thought, "fuck that, I'm getting a Revolution". Oh, just a note. I'm thinking that the Rev games will be cheaper. More similar to the current gen's price. Mainly because if it's underpowered compared to the other 2 systems, it might have lower production costs. If it has lower production costs, it might have a lower price for their games. But, we'll see once everything is out. Anyways.
I'm just wondering how much the price of games would influence people's choice in consoles? For me, it's kinda important. I like to buy a lot of games, so I would like to pay a kind of reasonable price. If there were only 2-3 games I wanted a year, then that would be ok, but in the last year, I bought a crap load of games. But, if I don't own the system that these games are out on, I don't really mind.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/03/news_6126948.html
Since I live in Canada, that comes to about $78 Cdn, $89 with tax. That's a fucking lot of money. Anyways. When I first read that, I thought, "fuck that, I'm getting a Revolution". Oh, just a note. I'm thinking that the Rev games will be cheaper. More similar to the current gen's price. Mainly because if it's underpowered compared to the other 2 systems, it might have lower production costs. If it has lower production costs, it might have a lower price for their games. But, we'll see once everything is out. Anyways.
I'm just wondering how much the price of games would influence people's choice in consoles? For me, it's kinda important. I like to buy a lot of games, so I would like to pay a kind of reasonable price. If there were only 2-3 games I wanted a year, then that would be ok, but in the last year, I bought a crap load of games. But, if I don't own the system that these games are out on, I don't really mind.
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the fact is that there are a ton of verifiably great current generation console and PC games i haven't played yet. i'm pretty sure they'll keep me busy for a while
I stood in line 5 hours before Best Buy opened to get my Xbox on launch day, but that's me. Stupid? Sure, most of you might say that. But I enjoy the wait, talking to all of the other freaks that come out for the system.
As far as price goes, I don't think it will affect my purchases much. I remember paying $75 for quite a few N64 games (Turok2, anyone?). I won't buy quite as many games as before, but I'll still buy a game if I really want it.
But if $60 US is the case, I'd rather rent than buy. There's not too many keepers in my case... Maybe I'm just picky :P
edit: I doubt Rev will be as underpowered as everyone believes. Maybe not as powerful, but the focus for Nintendo is gameplay.
Now as far as I go it wont affect me much. Ill own all the systems and buy every platform game that hits the market regardless of price. I can get away with it because I tell my wife and the IRS its research materials.
- BoBo
Hawken: It's just a suspicion I have and also a little bit of a hope. Whichever factors lead to nintendo being top again are great. Sadly, I just don't think they will be. Also, the question is based completely on speculation. We don't know if that is actually going to be the price of games, that they're going to stay that way, that the PS3 games aren't going to be cheaper, or that the Revolution games aren't going to be that much. The power of the Rev is just speculation, too.
I gladly bought serious sam the day it came out cuz it was a cool $20 bux. That was a well priced game and fun as hell.
Thankfully we live in a market where the value of a game drops very rapidly over the course of 4~6months. If you can wait (or just borrow the game from someone) You really can save yourself some serious money. (no pun intended).
Personally, I will never pay $60 for a game. I will gladly wait and/or borrow it. $300 for the ps1 when it first came out was a ton of money, took me like 4 months of saving to buy that and I didnt even get a game til 2 months later...had to rent alot
Even now its close to £40 ($80) for a game on release. Here in Japan games are a little bit more expensive than in the UK.
As Arshlevon states, you guys are living in a dream world, the price of games is actually lower or about the same as it's always been, certainly lower than it's ever been.
With the higher cost of development these days, cheap games games will have to sell in DVD movie quantities just to keep it all going.
hawken: They're 60 Euros (73 USD) in the rest of Europe, except for the more remote countries where they cost even more. You don't get ripped off by that much in the UK. Australian game prices are comparable. The US simply has the cheapest games.
I'd gladly accept lower graphical standards in my games if it meant cheaper games. Screw hours of movie-quality cutscenes or crap like that (though Westwood fit videos into their much smaller budgets back then), games can be fun without having 20 million budgets. Maybe if they didn't attempt to make a completely realistic game the price would be lower.
I'd gladly accept lower graphical standards in my games if it meant cheaper games.
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I would also, as it can still allow lots of originality. Deus Ex 1 vs 2. The newer version with all the ouuhs and auuhs of normal mapped characters was shorter, gameplay not as polished, and totally unoptimized.
I also was/am a fan of Serious Sam.
I hope that the prices stay the same here... I hope they have learned from doom3 that costed 60euro in the benelux instead of the 50 euro in the rest of europe, trying to ripp us off the sells in benelux were pretty bad hopefully they learned not to f*ck around with us again :P
I think they won't raise the prices here, they're still leftovers from the high dollar time and I think not much lower than the prices during the cart gens. The US is paying much less than the rest of the world and I can see why they're going to raise prices there.