Next Gen Game Prices

[J4MES OX4D 10,034]

2K are the first to announce their price guidelines for next gen titles coming it at $69.99/£59.99 for the base versions. Other publishers are expected to follow suit. 

 

I don't mind paying more if the quality is there. I already anticipate that the new NBA 2K game will be just a shitty current gen version with its usual built-in casino attached. Other regular brands like FIFA will really need to step it up because although there is room for substantial technical leaps, devs are nowhere near to maximizing such potential and existing builds will probably be similar on the current gen. This is particularly apparent with PC because paying £40 rather than £70 for the same build is a big difference. 

[Greboth 2,721]

A small price bump isn't a surprise but I expect things to continue much as they are.  The RRP of XB1/PS4 games is £54.99  (or is it £49.99?) but even on day of release you pay more like £37-43.  So I think we'll be looking at more like £49.99 at most places to keep  them under the £50 mark.

[phil bottle 9,758]

I think the games will be expensive. I expect both Sony and Microsoft to sell the consoles at a loss but the games to be expensive.



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[MrBiron 1,453]

Their reasoning for putting prices up is that they haven't gone up since 2005 but development cost has gone up by 300% or something. Fair enough. But they completely fail to mention that games are now jam packed full of micro-transactions - cosmetic shops, battle/season passes, XP boosters and fuck knows what else -  to an absolutely fucking ridiculous amount now, whereas in 2005 you basically just had map packs or story DLC. And they make quite literally billions of dollars from them.

If they were to put prices up and remove all the MTX shit then I'd be fine with a price increase. But they won't. They'll continue to try and milk every single penny out of their playerbase. So I'll continue to buy new and used games on disc and sell them afterwards because fuck these fucking greedy publishers.

 

This video shows exactly why a price increase is bullshit.

 

[phil bottle 9,758]

Their reasoning for putting prices up is that they haven't gone up since 2005 but development cost has gone up by 300% or something. Fair enough. But they completely fail to mention that games are now jam packed full of micro-transactions - cosmetic shops, battle/season passes, XP boosters and fuck knows what else -  to an absolutely fucking amount now, whereas in 2005 you basically just had map packs or story DLC. And they make quite literally billions of dollars from them.
If they were to put prices up and remove all the MTX shit then I'd be fine with a price increase. But they won't. They'll continue to try and milk every single penny out of their playerbase. So I'll continue to buy new and used games on disc and sell them afterwards because fuck these fucking greedy publishers.
 
This video shows exactly why a price increase is bullshit.
 

Jim Sterling makes excellent content and commentary on the the state of the games industry, very informative [emoji106]

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[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

It won't be a surprise to me if games RRP goes slightly up and Greebs is right as the prices don't now come out at RRP these days and very quickly come down 5-10 quid.

 

We also forget how much games were back in the day, when the RRP was even higher for most games. The picture below just shows some games for a SNES that had been out for a while were still mega money:

 

 

 

£64.99 for Robo Cop 3? A lot of people didn't bat much of an eyelid at these either.

[Dan94 913]

On 7/3/2020 at 6:40 PM, J4MES OX4D said:

2K are the first to announce their price guidelines for next gen titles coming it at $69.99/£59.99 for the base versions. Other publishers are expected to follow suit. 

 

I don't mind paying more if the quality is there. I already anticipate that the new NBA 2K game will be just a shitty current gen version with its usual built-in casino attached. Other regular brands like FIFA will really need to step it up because although there is room for substantial technical leaps, devs are nowhere near to maximizing such potential and existing builds will probably be similar on the current gen. This is particularly apparent with PC because paying £40 rather than £70 for the same build is a big difference. 

A few of my friends said EA have a new engine coming for the new versions of games which should help gameplay A LOT. Not sure how true it is or where they got it from mind you

[The3rdWalker 1,271]

Why folks buy the 2K games and Madden is beyond me. You're paying 70 a year for updated rosters.

[J4MES OX4D 10,034]

46 minutes ago, The3rdWalker said:

Why folks buy the 2K games and Madden is beyond me. You're paying 70 a year for updated rosters.

2K games have gotten worse over time too - their NBA games used to be visually and mechanically ahead of most sports game a few years ago but now their annual releases are bug-ridden and they haven't really improved in any way. Funnily enough, the microtransactions system works flawlessly! 

[The3rdWalker 1,271]

23 minutes ago, J4MES OX4D said:

2K games have gotten worse over time too - their NBA games used to be visually and mechanically ahead of most sports game a few years ago but now their annual releases are bug-ridden and they haven't really improved in any way. Funnily enough, the microtransactions system works flawlessly! 

 

There's no competition. When there's no competition there's no reason for innovation.

[phil bottle 9,758]

58 minutes ago, The3rdWalker said:

 

There's no competition. When there's no competition there's no reason for innovation.

Indeed, job satisfaction and love of one's work would rarely breed innovation, under present economics.