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An interview with Shuhei Yoshida, former president of PlayStation (english version)
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PSI: Speaking of the Switch 2, we've seen that Nintendo will be raising the price of its games, just as PlayStation did in 2020. What do you think of this decision, and do you think it will make it easier for other publishers such as Rockstar Games to do the same, or even go further?
Shuhei Yoshida: That's an interesting question. I think it was going to happen sooner or later, maybe not from Nintendo, but it was going to happen eventually. We live in contrasting times, where inflation is real and significant, but people expect games that are ever more ambitious and therefore expensive to develop to cost the same. It's an impossible equation.
Everything in video games today is more advanced and more technologically demanding than ever before, and therefore requires more resources. Each publisher or manufacturer sets the price of its games, of course, but in the end the heart of the matter lies in production costs. And that's why industry actors are so keen to diversify their revenues, in order to continue producing the AAA games that the public buys before anything else. Basically, the proliferation of remasters and remakes doesn't really stem from any kind of nostalgia or a desire to bring games up to date, but is a kind of "easy" solution to bring in profits that ultimately help finance new games. The same goes for PC ports. I'm not particularly bothered by this, because these ports, remakes and remasters are mostly made by support studios like Nixxes Software, so the studios developing the new games are relieved of the burden.
So I don't know if Rockstar will jump at the chance to set the price of GTA 6 at 90 euros or more, to speak with your currency, but the situation is this. And we could even add subscription platforms and games as a service, which, while providing huge revenues in their own right, also help to finance AAA down the line.