Analyst: $60 Pricing May Not Be Sustainable

[JiN-RaiDeN]

Jesus Fucking Christ, one more person quote me please, because I don't think it's been done enough in this thread yet. Bottom line, people are bitching about 60 dollar price video games, which really isn't a lot considering how "cheap" games have become in the Playstation era. Genesis games were around the 60 dollar mark, and SNES games were ridiculously overpriced. Hell, even a few N64 games were overpriced compared to similar platforms of the time. We've all went about ten years in the CD-format video game era paying mostly 20-40 (50 tops) for video games, and now it goes up 10 fucking dollars and everyone is getting sandy vaginaness. Shut the fuck up and stop whining. If you think it's too expensive don't buy ANYTHING! Nobody is forcing you to do a damn thing, and whining like bitches ain't gonna help you. Boo-fucking-hoo! Cry somewhere else.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Where in the hell can you get a better deal than $6/hour of entertainment?

Spo is the kind of guy who pays the door charge at the tittie bar, but then sits towards the back so he doesn't have to tip the strippers. $6/ hour is easily attainable.

[kingoffighters]

Video games also sold a lot less copies in those days.

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.

Agreed. People who bitch about people who bitch about the price don't understand this:

Marginal Cost = Marginal Revenue = utility maximization (optimal market) The marginal cost of printing another DVD is like $1? Say $5....

[Razor Ramon]

I am gainfully employed.

So are most of us. Still doesn't make it right.

[Razor Ramon]

I am gainfully employed.

So are most of us. Still doesn't make it right.

[Do You Like Erotic?]

I still feel as if, it's only the natural course of things for products to become more expensive. Ten dollars of a jump over the course of about 10 years really isn't that bad at all. Especially when, as others have said, games weren't capped before.

I was reading through Best Buy's Sunday paper catalogue and generally, you'll find the same games for 49.99 anyway during the weekend over there. Another thing is that we have cool inventions like tradeback value and pre-played games.

Besides, it will be a long time, with this generation, before there are so many great games on the market that we're buying more than one a month anyway.

Ten more dollars isn't really breaking me right now, and even though something getting more expensive does suck, if that money is going into more development dollars and is funding better, more engrossing games, then I'm not mad.

[Dolemite]

Jesus Fucking Christ, one more person quote me please, because I don't think it's been done enough in this thread yet.

Okay.

Bottom line, people are bitching about 60 dollar price video games, which really isn't a lot considering how "cheap" games have become in the Playstation era. Genesis games were around the 60 dollar mark, and SNES games were ridiculously overpriced. Hell, even a few N64 games were overpriced compared to similar platforms of the time. We've all went about ten years in the CD-format video game era paying mostly 20-40 (50 tops) for video games, and now it goes up 10 fucking dollars and everyone is getting sandy vaginaness. Shut the fuck up and stop whining. If you think it's too expensive don't buy ANYTHING! Nobody is forcing you to do a damn thing, and whining like bitches ain't gonna help you. Boo-fucking-hoo! Cry somewhere else.

As consumers we can bitch about anything we want. And demand sets the marketplace. If I don't want to pay $60 for a game, I won't. If enough people feel the same way, the price will go down. Supply and demand, dude. Nothing justifies selling games for $60 in this day and age. I'm not about to sit and be quiet while game prices creep back up to SNES levels.

You'e a douche, BTW.

Another thing is that we have cool inventions like tradeback value

It's great getting $4 credit for a game you bought for $40 2 months ago.

and pre-played games.

…that are usually $5 less than their brand-new counterparts.

[Do You Like Erotic?]

I understand what you're saying. I guess I'm in a unique situation. I generally don't have a problem waiting it out anymore. When I used to work at a videogame store, seeing games everyday was torture, and all of my money ended up going right back into games. But these days, I generally do just wait, and I'll probably do the same thing with PS3 games, aside from the few that I *really* have to have enough to shell out the extra 10 to own, like VF5 and MGS4. For example, 3 months ago I got God of War, PoP: Twin Thrones, and GTA: LCS on PS2, and it was buy 2 used, get one free, and I paid about 39 dollars after tax for it.

IMO, if money is that important to you, then it's worth waiting for the price to drop. At least on the used version.

[Melf]

Where in the hell can you get a better deal than $6/hour of entertainment?

At your mom's house.



Sorry, that was just WAY too easy.

[Razor Ramon]

Dyle, just use eBay. It's way cheaper. <3 it.