$60 Game Comeback?

Stonecutter · 06-27-2003, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Xantar

Just in case you were wondering, this means Canadians will be paying a little over $80 per game at current exchange rates and assuming that retail prices are simply converted.

And like Stonecutter, I'm not really too worried about this. I only end up buying maybe six games for an entire console generation anyway. At that rate, an extra $10 hardly matters anyway, especially if the console itself comes cheaper like all the consoles have been doing this generation. And besides, I spent $79.99 on Chrono Trigger.

Now if all these economic pressures would just force Acclaim to roll over and die, I'll be a happy man...

Yeah! I forgot about CT. I think that was 74.99 when I got it.

Professor S · 06-27-2003, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Stonecutter

Yeah! I forgot about CT. I think that was 74.99 when I got it.

I have no problem paying upwards of $70 for a game if it is an excellent game. I would have paid $100 for Halo. Great games will sell no matter what (ok, Steel Battalion didn't sell great, but $200 is above and beyond even Chrono Trigger) Thats why I think it would be a good idea to have higher or lower prices on a game by game basis. If you need to make more profit to make monetary sense for investing many millions of $ into game to make it great, then do it. If not, then sell it for $50 buck or even $20 like in the case of Serious Sam.

I think this could lead to even more great games coming out, because developers would feel they would be able to both maintain their profit ratios while investing the time and effort if making a work of art.

Joeiss · 06-27-2003, 05:47 PM

Yeah, us Canadians pay 92 bucks for a 79.99 priced game. So if the prices go up 10 bucks... Well, I think that is a little too rich for my blood. I will definitely be picking and chosing games more selevtively than before.

Stonecutter · 06-27-2003, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by The Strangler

I have no problem paying upwards of $70 for a game if it is an excellent game. I would have paid $100 for Halo. Great games will sell no matter what (ok, Steel Battalion didn't sell great, but $200 is above and beyond even Chrono Trigger) Thats why I think it would be a good idea to have higher or lower prices on a game by game basis. If you need to make more profit to make monetary sense for investing many millions of $ into game to make it great, then do it. If not, then sell it for $50 buck or even $20 like in the case of Serious Sam.

I think this could lead to even more great games coming out, because developers would feel they would be able to both maintain their profit ratios while investing the time and effort if making a work of art.

Yeah, but if you do that....

Would anyone buy a game that sold for less than the maximium? Lets say games went up to 80$ Would you want to buy a game that sold for 50$ Isn't a developer who slapps a 50$ price tag on their game basicly saying that "we made an inferior product"?

Professor S · 06-27-2003, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Stonecutter

Yeah, but if you do that....

Would anyone buy a game that sold for less than the maximium? Lets say games went up to 80$ Would you want to buy a game that sold for 50$ Isn't a developer who slapps a 50$ price tag on their game basicly saying that "we made an inferior product"?

You have a point, but aren't developers already doing that now? $20 games are becoming more and more common, and I wouldn't call Serious Sam an inferior product. Its just not deep enough to warrant $50. I also don't think the $80 games would be that common, but instead be more like the $20 games are now. I think the added price we be more of an indication of a superior product, than giving the impression that the $50 games are inferior.

Its like going out to eat. Most of the time you go out to eat once you're older its to a sit down place, like Appleby's or Bennigans. But every once in a while you want to go to a really nice place like Le Bec Fin (Philly high class Frenchy). Now Le Bec Fin is a superior restaurant, but you don't really think of an Appleby's or Bennigans as inferior. Its still good, but doesn't have all the trimmings that Le Bec Fin has that ou are willing to spend that extra money on every once in a while.

Just because a select few things are special, it doesn't make everything else bad.

Seven7 · 06-27-2003, 10:42 PM

Alot of games here are what, $69.99-79.99 to as much as $89. plus even, while some new games are sometimes as low as $59.99 or so, such as the new Tomb Raider game.

If games were to go up a fair bit like 10-15 dollars Cdn then I may only buy very few new games now and good used games will be more sought after.

manasecret · 06-28-2003, 09:14 PM

I still don't understand Candanians bitching about game prices over there; I mean, isn't everything over there a higher number price than it is in Amrica?

How much is a value burger there? Or a movie ticket? 24-packs of Bud Light?

Anyway, Ikaruga is only $40 and it's a fantastic game! ...it's just all 2D and not exactly an 80-hour RPG.

GameKinG · 06-28-2003, 09:38 PM

I hope not. I have 20 gamecube games and many more purchases in mind.

Stonecutter · 06-28-2003, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by manasecret

I still don't understand Candanians bitching about game prices over there; I mean, isn't everything over there a higher number price than it is in Amrica?

How much is a value burger there? Or a movie ticket? 24-packs of Bud Light?

Anyway, Ikaruga is only $40 and it's a fantastic game! ...it's just all 2D and not exactly an 80-hour RPG.

...Not to mention the fact that the canadian dollar is only worth about 75cents and they have nationalized healthcare.