That’s perfectly fine. Predictions still have to be logical though
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Probably the same enhanced audio and 4K visuals that are touted in that trailer you shared?
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Microsoft Raising Prices on New, First-Party Games Built for Xbox Series X|S to $70 in 2023
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That’s perfectly fine. Predictions still have to be logical though
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Probably the same enhanced audio and 4K visuals that are touted in that trailer you shared?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
So just the same thing that everyone else is already doing, basically. Ok. Things do go up over time.
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DarkMage619
$MSFT
Gamers are already paying for haptics and improved audio. Those things are baked in to the PS5 inherently. They do not warrant charging gamers every time for the features you already paid for. Let's not forget the PS5 controllers are also more expensive than last generation too and they upped the console prices as well.
Xbox also gives gamers an alternative price for people who don't want to pay $70 for new games. You can also purchase digital games from non-MS sources as well. Those options do not exist on PS5. Again let's not act like all things are equal. I'm willing to say none of these prices increases are warranted are you?
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
If by "everybody" you mean just PlayStation sure. Nintendo and PC are still cheaper. PC always will be of course.
I just checked the "Sony is increasing prices" thread.
Wasn’t that about console prices?
Second time in this thread you’ve made that mistake. Strange.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Game Pass will absolutely go up at some point, it has to. Same as every other subscription service does over time.
MasterCornholio
Member
I wouldn't be surprised if they also increased. I mean there's plenty of proof that costs have been going up.
DrumNBassDanTTV
Member
Game Pass FTW
MisterXDTV
Member
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Well Nintendo is still selling 2017 Switch games for $60, tho. So in the end as a blended price of games, who's really the one nickel-and-diming? PC is obviously different. But hey, complaining is pointless, this is how the market system works. You want it? You pay it.
Don't get me wrong, I love my OG launch Switch. But damn almost 6 years in and no Nintendo Selects yet? They've been double-dipping on MK8 Deluxe for almost 10 years now. Like, c'mon.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
They already did in their India territories.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
sainraja
Member
They held out?
Third-party games on Xbox are already $69.99 dollars if you haven't noticed and only now that they are coming close to releasing notable next gen games, that they are acknowledging the price increase. They were always going to do it. Why would they increase the price when they had nothing to increase the price on?
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Xbox one and X are included.
LordOfChaos
Member
Console prices are also most likely going up early next year
Microsoft Holds Off Xbox Price Hike Until After Christmas
The cost of nearly everything is going up these days. So, it’s unsurprising that Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console will soon see a price hike. However, the software giant is delaying that pain a bit to give customers a chance to get an Xbox at the current price before Christmas.
www.reviewgeek.com
bender
What time is it?
It's going to have a knock on effect everywhere though. as you'll be discounting from a higher initial price point. I do think all big budget releases will go to $70 no matter the platform and I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened already.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
I remember some N64 games being $60 in the late 1990s. And I don't even want to know what my parents forked out for that in 2022 adjusted dollars. And people are upset over $200-300 million budget games going up by $10 in 2022? Oh my God, boo frcikin' hoo cry me a river.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
My parents paid 80 dollars for Doom 64 when that came out for me.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
We only have UK sales splits and it was 70% for HFW in PS5s favor even though it was a free upgrade. GOW was 80 or 90%.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
$146 in today's money!! Cah razy.
MisterXDTV
Member
Exactly my point, Xbox One is dead...
We should count next-gen users, not retro gamers...
Tomi
Member
What about salaries?
Raising prices are ok, but when we talk about raising salaries that is like you asking your employee a jackpot or something
This world is fuc*ed place
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
This article in context is talking about game prices. To be clear, this is absolutely not some new reporting that indicates Msoft is planning a console price increase after the holidays.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Tell MS to stop counting them then. They have gamepass access. That's the point. You also can't readily pick up an x still. There's more xbox one gamers out there.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Probably because game studios have had record profit lately. And covid boosted it more. Even before covid, game companies were already ramping up gangbuster sales and profits as the more Gamestop and Best Buy get cut out, combined with MTX, the more money the first and third party companies make.
They were all probably thinking whether or not to rock the boat driving for even higher profits. Increasing games $10 isn't a pricing strategy for survival. It's a pricing strategy to accelerate into even higher record financials.
Since it seems to have no detrimental effect, every full budget game maker might as well join the herd. If $70 US games were that bad, all those games would have bad sales. Not happening.
Stuart360
Member
Yeah i remember paying £69 for Turok 1, which back then would of been atleast $80.
For all the moaning about game prices, we really havent dont bad since games went to disk,. In fact there were still some Snes and Genesis games that were in the $50-60 range way back then.
GHG
Member
They list the prices from those sites on there as well, it's just an aggregator.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
My bros and I all chipped in to buy Phantasy Star II on Genesis for $120 cdn. So was Sword of Vermilion. Big meg games with battery back up were insane. Years later, my bro upgraded his PC to buy 4 megs of ram. $200 cdn. That was when ram blocks were about $50/meg.
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sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
Its only a matter of time too until Gamepass prices go up as well
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
N64 games were routinely $60, especially the major titles. Do you know how much $60 in 1998 is worth now?
And people are complaining about game prices going up $10 for the first time in like 10 years? Give me a break.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
It is logical.
To say it's NOT logical then you're saying they wouldn't consider increasing the price of Game Pass or even consider releasing their games months later instead of day one on the service if they're not seeing enough improvements in the future.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Nintendo will once they launch a successor, 100% guaranteed. But they'd be silly not to.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Gamepass will almost certainly go up in the future. Didn't they try to increase the price of gold at the beginning of this generation? It's only a matter of time.
oldergamer
Member
He never lied about this or said it would never happen. Its only forum dwellers (not xbox fans) that seemed to think this wouldn't happen.Phil "the honest man" Spencer.
These consoles launched 2 years ago, one raised game prices 2 years ago then raised other prices more recent, the other did not. You can guess who is who.
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bentanchorbolt
Banned
The one thing you can count on is something going up in price, that is just how it works. Game Pass Ultimate is $15/mo or $180/year if you look at the total cost per year. That is the cost of about 2.5 $70 games per year. If you play a lot of games, you'd have to see prices double or worse before it started to become a bad value.
LordCBH
Member
Yup. They won’t do it this close to when they announce the game price increase to $69.99 though. I feel like it’ll go up right after Starfield
Edit; meant Starfield. Had brain fart
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But that's not what that article says, though.
The competition has been happily charging $70 for cross gen games since 2020. MS has similarly released AAA first party games in that period and still pegged the price at $60 in that time.
Such a weird post. Cross gen GT7 can be $70, but it would have been haram for MS to put a $70 price tag on FH5?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Probably because back then rom chips cost a lot and no game companies were making giant profits. Even Nintendo wasn't raking it in like now. Video gaming back then was such a mosh pit of weird shit like Atari, Turbografx, a half broke Sega, and the industry was the fraction of the size now.
Now, game companies are raking in tons of profit due to digital being cheap form of distribution (no inventory or packaging) and mtx fees can make any game a big money maker.
Any big company claiming they need $10 more per game for survival is lying. It's purely about profit boosting.
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ChiefDada
Gold Member
We've been at $60 since PS3/X360. Price increase was long overdue and long-term COL only goes in one direction (up) over time.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
So far, the only defense I've seen is "gamepass" Completely ignoring the majority of users who don't have it. Fuck them, I guess.