SmokedMeat
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We noticed other publishers sell their games for $70, so we’d like to as well.
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Sega suggests it could become the latest publisher to raise game prices to $70
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NeverYouMind
Member
I would willingly pay 100 USD for Virtua Fighter 6. Can't say the same for any of their other releases.
Killer8
Member
Gamers think they are immune to inflation.
A Big Mac costs double what it did in 2005 but lord forbid the heckin gamerinos go up by 15%.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Don't do it Sega! Nobody loves you.
Nydius
Gold Member
Always love these threads when people whine about $70 games, all while $70 dollar games are setting sales records.
Until Sony raised the price to $70 in 2020, the cost of games hadn't increased from the $60 price point in fourteen years. Before that, they hadn't increased from the $50 price point for ten years. Name any other entertainment industry whose price remained the same for such long stretches without increases. You can't. They have all increased while offering fewer features. Movie prices are higher, music prices (both physical CD and digital MP3/FLAC) are higher, subscription services have increased the total cost of access to media. In the same time span we went from DVD to Blu-Ray to HD Blu-Ray to digital movie purchases, each one increasing in price.
You all bitch and moan but are going to buy the games regardless.
The cost of creating games has become astronomically high. There was an article back in 2012 that stated the total development budget, including marketing, for Mass Effect 3 was $40M. CDPR has stated it cost them a total of $316M to make Cyberpunk 2077. The development budget for Hogwarts Legacy was $150M. The cost of making games has tripled, but asking an extra $10 for them (when literally everything else in the world is increasing in price) is somehow a bridge too far...
Until Sony raised the price to $70 in 2020, the cost of games hadn't increased from the $60 price point in fourteen years. Before that, they hadn't increased from the $50 price point for ten years. Name any other entertainment industry whose price remained the same for such long stretches without increases. You can't. They have all increased while offering fewer features. Movie prices are higher, music prices (both physical CD and digital MP3/FLAC) are higher, subscription services have increased the total cost of access to media. In the same time span we went from DVD to Blu-Ray to HD Blu-Ray to digital movie purchases, each one increasing in price.
You all bitch and moan but are going to buy the games regardless.
Not just inflation but also the basic cost of doing business.
The cost of creating games has become astronomically high. There was an article back in 2012 that stated the total development budget, including marketing, for Mass Effect 3 was $40M. CDPR has stated it cost them a total of $316M to make Cyberpunk 2077. The development budget for Hogwarts Legacy was $150M. The cost of making games has tripled, but asking an extra $10 for them (when literally everything else in the world is increasing in price) is somehow a bridge too far...
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DirtyBast8rd
Member
I just push my buy date a couple of months past the release date for most games. Works great.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
yea.....so Ima pay $70 for a Yakuza game day 1 lol
Will buy the next Yakuza day 1, next Persona day 1 etc.
People have exaggerated that $10 price jump, ijdgaf lol Sega, Square, Ubisoft etc they will all go to that $70 price tag when they start to roll out next gen only titles, it makes no sense not to and I'm surprised anyone is still making a news thing out of this. Did some of you really fucking think we'd go what, 20 plus years with the exact same price point?
Astral Dog
Member
They discounted Frontiers mere two weeks after release, so im not sure exactly what is their sales strategy, any $70 game SEGA releases will drop like a rock
And i believe Sonic Frontiers would have sold very well without a price drop during the holidays
GHG
Member
Mr Moose
Member
Thanks, MicroSoft, for charging $70 for Redfall.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
Not sure what the big deal is ultimately. Everything has gone up in price. Either save up or pick and choose the games you will buy on Day 1 better.
You don’t have to pay $70 either. Most of the time there are other choices instead of posting full price.
You don’t have to pay $70 either. Most of the time there are other choices instead of posting full price.
username12
Member
I was pretty sure the first company to raise the price to $70 was Enix, then Square. I'd gladly pay $70 for ActRaiser and Final Fantasy II again. But no thanks, Sega (or Sony or Nintendo). It can just wait on my wishlist, and I'll probably never actually buy, though I don't blame them for trying.
....you do realize this whole debate started because of some acting like Sony started this.....right? Are you even reading what you're quoting?
Lets try this: replace Sony with MS in this debate...and tell me if you'll still try to argue this the same way.
Exactly, lol.
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