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- KJSatz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+59Why would that put any chill on the hype? I don't understand. This is great news, what with rumors that 3rd party games for Wii could be $60---EA is a giant, and they'll set a precedent (hopefully).
- CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+59yeah, trend in rising game prices is disturbing... big digg
- GNiMeLF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39The overhype is annoying, but anywho this is Greeeaaat news. having to pay $120AUD for xbox games is really pathetic.. i hope this will really drive down the prices of xbox games. well all games in general
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40If you think Digg users always press the thumbs down button, maybe you are leaving stupid comments...
- KJSatz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36The whole point of the Wii is that it costs less to develop games for it; if publishers still priced the games at $59.99---the same cost as high def games on the 360---the Wii would lose the advantage of having both the games and the system cost less. Now with all 1st party games $50 or less, and the same for EA, a good trend is being set up.
In short, the Wii has the price advantage, and perhaps the gameplay advantage as well (I've never played a Wii do I don't know!). - JonVisc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31@KibibyteBrain
"Assuming one buys 6 games, and plays each game once, that comes to $42 + $50 = $92 for the game, which translates to $1.84 per hour! You find me ANYTHING that's that cheap."
Reading is cheaper. I love games as much as the next guy, but sometimes nothing beats a good book. - freebirdpat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27I cannot wait for the day that EA drops the bombshell that they will not publish subpar games.
/hates the atrocity that is Battlefield 2. Too many bugs, and issues. - spoonard, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29Wii - No MORE then $49.99
Xbox360 - No LESS than $59.99
PS3 - No LESS than $59.99 and possibly as high as $79.99 for A-List games
Hmmm..the choice is obvious to me... - JeremiahLBurns, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26@Grimdotdotdot
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/2ยข - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Video gaming is an expensive hobby. You have to buy the system that is $250 plus dollars, then you have to buy the games which are $50 plus dollars, then you have all the game accessories $100 plus dollars. Then you have electricity cost to play the games. In the end youre paying around $1000 or more just to play a handful of games over and over again. Do the math, video gaming is an expensive hobby.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Umm, no. Certainly video games and equipment don't seem cheap, but gaming is not expensive compared to other hobbies if you look at time usage. One game can take 50 hours for a single play. Assuming one buys 6 games, and plays each game once, that comes to $42 + $50 = $92 for the game, which translates to $1.84 per hour! You find me ANYTHING that's that cheap. Movies, plays, concerts, etc are all massively more expensive ways to spend time. Gaming gets expensive when people become obsessed with it and buy 5 full length games a month. At that point, they have bigger issues than the "expense" of their hobby. Gaming is probably the cheapest way to spend free time there is, end of story!
- phidong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Not true. Most of the Microsoft published games (N3, PDZ, kameo,etc) have list prices of 49.99, Rockstar's Table Tennis is only 39.99, NBA 2k6 and NBA Live 2006 is only 39.99.. there are a bunch others.
Xbox360 - No LESS than $59.99? Right... - JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I have absolutely no faith at all in the logic behind video game pricing.
1) First was cartridges. They were expensive to manufacture, so the games were expensive.
2) Then came CD/DVD media. They were cheap to manufacture, but easy to pirate. Piracy allegedly drove game costs up so the games were expensive.
3) Then came Nintendo with the GameCube using DVDish media and an "unbreakable" piracy scheme. You'd think that because piracy was 0 and games were no longer on cartridges that the games would be cheap. Not really.
4) This generation seems to be whether the game is HD or not. Yes. As if higher resolution textures mapped to a polygon are far more expensive to come up with.
The real way to control video game costs is not to rely on the manufacturer hype, but to wait till the prices for the games naturally drop. I've set personal limits of $200-250 for consoles and $30-40 for games. By the time the console hits that price point, usually there's a library of higher quality games available at the pricepoint I like as well. - pdiddle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16> "Ahahahah! Why would games for the Wii be cheaper than games for the Gamecube?? "
Ahahahah! Because they're no longer released on an expensive proprietary mini-dvd format which used to cause developers a lot of hassle. - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Yup. It's the one with the best games.
We'll have to wait and see. - becominglumberg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Between a reasonable price for the console and a reasonable price for games, Wii has my vote- and I am a borderline Sony fanboy. I want a PS3, but I like my kidneys too much.
My main worry is that I love the final fantasy series, which will have me ponying up for the PS3 eventually... - sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah, it's really annoying when games cost $120 when they're not even worth a damn compared to $99 Shadow of Collossus... and I am sure it's become cheaper now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Consider UK people. When a game costs $49.99 in the US it gets released here for $74.
$49 for a new game is NOT expensive. - matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13How so? I clearly remeber paying $50 for Genesis games back in the early 90s. Hell I paid $65-70 for some N64 games. I don't really think $60 games are that unreasonable considering inflation and the cost of making the games now.
Though cheaper is always better. - YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11... stupid edit timeout...
AND the Wii is the first console to actually seem interesting in a long time. The price points simply mean I'll actually go buy one.
Oh yes, it Wii'll be MINE!! - datagod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I am still rocking away with BF1942 Desert Combat. In fact, I have been playing two maps (Berlin and El Alamein) exclusively for over a year and a half. Best game I have every played, and I have been playing video games since 1978.
- shadgenki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Ya know, the Wii games could be $60 and I'd still buy them. At least Nintendo makes games that I actually want to play, instead of shooter after shooter of the same old garbage over and over and over again. Blah, that's not worth my $500.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I bought Street Fighter 2 for SNES for $80 USD the day it came out. That was 10 years ago. Game prices are going down!
- Gorrondonuts, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Hasn't this been common knowledge?
- daeyeth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10considering 50$ console games have been around for nearly a decade (yes, including SNES and the elders) that's the least of my concerns
- Daedalus81, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm pretty sure the average video game don't last 50 hours unless you play only RPGs, but point taken.
- ArekRashan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Videogames aren't an expensive hobby. Golf, Yachting and illegal street racing are expensive hobbies. Gaming is pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things.
- SpeckledJim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8CheapEr, not cheap.
- VeryAngryJim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10KibibyteBrain is right
Compare gaming to tournament paintball, I shell out $1000+ for a gun and $50+ per weekend for two cases of paint. Don't get me started on the cost of playing in a national tournament. All of this makes the ps3 look cheap. - cogen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7naaaaaaaaaaa nanana NAna Na na NA Katamari Damacy
- birch25, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@shadgenki, you know gamecube games were cheaper than many n64 games, right?
- Rummy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Does someone want to explain where we're wrong, rather than just hammering the 'I disagree' button?"
It's not really about what's happening right now at this very moment, but more about the precedent that's being set for this generation of game consoles (i.e. another 6 or so years). Due to increased production costs game prices are going skywards.
You could argue that the extra cost of the games is worth the extra content included (such as HD), however I think the lower pricing is consistent with Nintendo's strategy. It's only real enthusiasts that are prepared to pay a premium price for a premium product. If Nintendo are eager to appeal to non enthusiasts then they need to price themselves accordingly. Whatever happens it will be really interesting to see how this all pans out. - aristofa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is great news! Wii Rocks!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4HD != content.
$49 isn't that much. Anyone remember the prices of SNES/Sega games? - wetworx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I can't think of a single EA game that I would spend $49.99 on, let alone half that.
YMMV. - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Makes the X360 and the PS3 look like the SUVs of gaming consoles.
- shadgenki, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Ahahahah! Why would games for the Wii be cheaper than games for the Gamecube?? It's a no-brainer to price them at $50, and doesn't eliminate any advantage at all that the Wii has. It's still a fraction of the overall cost for games that are more fun (and that my girlfriend might actually play).
- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i'm not much of a gamer, but I'm slowly becoming a Wii fanboy. Cheap console, cheap games, hours of promised fun, how can you go wrong?
I'm more than certain I wont be getting the 360 or ps3. - pdiddle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@CoryDambach
There's obvious reasons for this;
1) The games are now old, and comparible with some discount games.
2) They are released via steam, which allows for large savings on a medium (DVD), boxes and manual. If you were to buy these games in a shop they wouldnt be so cheap.
Correct me if Im wrong, but don't you need HL2 to purchase CS:S? Which would make the possible cost of CS:S $50. But I cannot remember if this is true. - KJSatz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why would any of you have expected Wii games to cost less than GCN/XBox/PS2 games did?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Still waiting for the "bombshell."
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"games actuall vary more than pizza does."
I beg to differ. There are lots of things that differentiate one pizza from another. The ingredients in the dough and sauce, the toppings, the way it's prepared, the time and temperature it's cooked, etc. For example, how different is a Pizza Hut deep dish meat lover's pizza from a gourment Brick Oven greek pizza? Another thing, I hear that the way pizza is made in Italy is much different from the Americanized variants. And even within a particular country like the US, you have New York style, Chicago style, etc.
Conclusion: pizza varies quite a lot. - Tabris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3CS:S is simply the multi-player for HL2. You can get CS:S standalone if you want, though. I think it's $20, though; not $10.
- rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4matts0344 is correct...
New games for new console systems always carry a premium. As time goes on, that premium goes away just as it will for the 360/PS3. Heck, you can already get many full 360 games for $30-$40 and the console has been out less than a year. Of course, I'm not buying many $60 games either, but I don't see those prices as being terribly out of line at this stage of the game. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Everyone buys consoles for the games, idiot. It's not like someone's going, "Man I want a nice paperweight, I'll buy a PS3."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I remember MK2 being like $70 US.
- miketuck3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6yes but add on the 17.5% vat and 3% import duty for europe
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Cartridge RPG/sports games skyrocketed in price since they were variable in size. Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger needed bigger cartridges than Super Mario World or Pilotwings. Think of flash drive prices. More MB means higher price. Plus the cost of the breadbords and plastic adds up per unit.
Enter CD-ROM. One size. A couple cents worth of polycarbonate. Prices dropped to US$49.99 as the standard MSRP (high for action games but low for sports and RPGs). DVDs may store more data but they are still made up of a few cents of polycarbonate. Hence the steady price.
BluRay and HD-DVD introduce extra material than just polycarbonate, as well as the costs of the production lasers units. That and having to design games in SD and HD formats costs extra production costs. Hence the $59.99 MSRP for PS3/360 games. Theoretically, since 360 only uses DVD and they still cost $59.99, PS3 games should actually average $69.99 MSRP.
BTW, the Gamecube discs are simply 3" DVDs, not proprietary. The filesystem on them, like Xbox games, is proprietary (not UFS like DVD Video and PS2 games). - jpbleuu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you don't need to pay 50 bucks for a game, go rent it, wait and buy it used for a lot cheaper.
sign up for a game fly account, what is 20 bucks and you get 3 games at once? personally i wasn't buying games brand new for a long time. until i got my ds, but when a new game costs between 20 and 35 bucks its really not that bad its about the same as filling up my car with gas now. - Xinex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3> I am still rocking away with BF1942 Desert Combat. In fact, I have been playing two maps (Berlin and El Alamein) exclusively for over a year and a half. Best game I have every played, and I have been playing video games since 1978.
Thank god we still have some BF1942 fans, especially Desert Combat. Sorry for the off-topic comment, but it had to be said. -
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