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The End of $60 Games?

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vicious796:
It may be sooner than you think.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/why-end-60-video-game-near-181412574.html

The argument makes valid points but I still don't foresee a massive dropoff anytime truly soon - not with the newest consoles right around the corner. Still, it would be nice to see new games sell for 40 bucks or so.

zherok:
I don't think XBox Arcade or the PSN Store enjoy remotely the throughput of say, the App store, Steam, and their many counterparts. Bigger investments are still more lucrative at the end of the day for consoles, even with a handful of notable successes on both platforms.

And I think whenever people bring up mediums like browser or portable games, they seem to suggest that these are somehow replacing conventional gaming, rather than simply bringing gaming to a place that otherwise wouldn't have had it.

You might like Angry Birds, but you probably don't play it on the big screen at home. And at $3 or whatever it's not likely offsetting any home purchases.

I'd agree that it'd be nice to see more titles willing to aim at lower price points. It's already incredibly common on PC platforms. And a huge sale driver, not just of games that would end up in the console's arcade sections, but more expensive productions that either have passed their prime at the $60 mark and just plain smaller endeavors that don't really deserve the full price sticker but still aren't merely $10 offerings. I mean, PSN still wants me to think GT5 Prologue is worth $30. I can currently buy the full game off Amazon for around $32, and the DLC filled edition for $7 more than that. Catching up to more market savvy retailers would really help the console makers, since they'd be bypassing the middle men almost entirely with those sorts of things.

TMRNetShark:
Skyrocketing costs?

How about just making GOOD games that will sell at $50 instead of many games (good and bad and in the middle) that have to sell at $60? The first time I was stung by a $60 game back in early 2006 just made me cringe. Then PC games hit $60! It's seriously a vicious cycle that will make me stop buying physical mediums and purely buy Steam games.

If Valve makes a console, I'm willing to predict that they will win the console wars because it'll just be like the new Xbox/PS but with a 1-2 TB harddrive and no disc drive. Buy all your games online and download them (even with Steam sales)... good idea right?

Hadouken:

--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on April 19, 2012, 01:20:18 PM ---If Valve makes a console, I'm willing to predict that they will win the console wars because it'll just be like the new Xbox/PS but with a 1-2 TB harddrive and no disc drive. Buy all your games online and download them (even with Steam sales)... good idea right?

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For someone like me, this would be a useless console.

HSSDamian:
Wait what? Games were that cheap??
Here in Australia, new releases cost around $100+
I remember buying FFXIII for $129.95 about 5 months after it came out.

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