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The difference is those SNES games were needed to make the life force continue to flow though my body. A man can't live without SFII, ya know?Quote:
Originally Posted by JiN-RaiDeN
If you're content to pay that much for games then you're part of the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by JiN-RaiDeN
The problem is that the gaming industry is getting arrogant. They've found a lot of success lately and they think they can now get away with launching consoles that cost almost as much as PCs and raising the cost of games to an absurd $60 and making public statements telling people they'll want to get second and third jobs to afford it. Eventually it's going to cause consumer backlash and it won't be pretty.
Everyone bitching about $600 Blu-ray or HD-DVD players obviously didn't own a DVD player, because past precedents in pricing are still valid and comparable to newer technology and anything cheaper than how it used to be is a value.Quote:
Originally Posted by JiN-RaiDeN
I had a first generation Toshiba DVD player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stibbons
I paid $1200 for it.
I'm still going to complain about Blu-ray and HD-DVD though, but it's more because they're two competing formats trying to take over the same market and only one will win. I'm not going to pay those high prices for something that may very well lose the format war. DVD was worth the price because it was a fucking gigantic upgrade. Blu-ray and HD-DVD are nice, but are not the same as the VHS to DVD leap.
touche. I loved my MMO time because it saved me a ton of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Come back to us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
You know... I blocked off time on my work calendar to run out and grab Lost Planet Friday. If I have to walk past The Burning Crusade to get it, I'm going to drop $110 plus sub fees in a heartbeat.
My inner analyst tells me that $350 for Neo Geo AES cartridges are not sustainable.
Video games also sold a lot less copies in those days.Quote:
Originally Posted by JiN-RaiDeN
More copies made and sold = less manufacturing cost. DVDs/CDs are also wayyyyy less expensive to produce than cartridges.
Now you can say that budgets are way up, and that's true... but the best way to offset that is to sell more copies by keeping prices low, not price higher and sell fewer. Notice how movies' ticket sales trend downwards as their average prices increase, but DVD sales trend upward as their average prices decrease. Same for comic books, single issues have increased and sell largely for shit, while TPBs/manga have gone down in price and are enjoying a noticable boom.