After Pricing Dragon’s Dogma 2 $70, Capcom Is Now Considering a Video Game Price Review - IGN
After Pricing Dragon’s Dogma 2 $70, Capcom Is Now Considering a Video Game Price Review - IGN
And look at that, I'm now considering a video game price review as well, and I've concluded that $70 for a brand new AAA game is stupid and I won't pay that much for a half-asses AAA game.
What about for a AAAA game though?!?
*It’s actually AAA, the last A will come later in a paid dlc
The only games I've been paying full price for are games that I have been looking forward to for a very long time/games that I know for a fact I will 200% enjoy. Otherwise I'm waiting for steep sales of at least 50%, but usually more.
The only exception are Nintendo games because they rarely go on sale and when they do it's not a super amazing sale price. But because of that I buy way less Nintendo games and only buy the ones I absolutely know I'll enjoy. It's a lot more rare that I'll take a risk.
Interesting to see so many people with this approach. I think it’s combination of high prices and some AAA duds. Any experienced customer is very wary these days.
I’m very similar. In my mind, I have : £10-20 = with a punt, £20-30 needs to be very well reviewed £30+ Needs to be THE ONE. Rarely more than one or two per years.
I bought NFS heat for like 4 dollars before the new game came out. I'm not even really into racing games, but i played like 10 hours and had some fun with it. The new game came out and was like 79 bucks or something. It seemed pretty mid and was on sale at least twice already for 14 or so dollars. I don't know if i ever loce a game enough to pay full price. Maybe if it's some obline game and my friends want to play.
I recommend buying second-hand Nintendo games. No reason not to, and you save lots of money
Pretty much same here. I am a patient gamer, with very few exceptions. Like some Nintendo games, or something highly anticipated (like Helldivers 2 - though I had to postpone buying it)
I'm an extreme patient gamer. I haven't bought a Nintendo/new Nintendo game in a decade. And if I wait long enough, they become remakes/bundles that I also don't buy! And by that time, their games used is super cheap!
Last year, I finally played through all of the Wii Zeldas.
And five years ago, played through all the N64/GAMECUBE/handheld Zeldas!
I can't wait to play Breath of the Wild in 2027.
Tsujimoto went on to argue that an economic slump wouldn't prevent people from purchasing pricier games. “Just because there’s a recession doesn’t mean you won’t go to the movie theater or go to your favorite artist’s concert. High-quality games will continue to sell,” he said.
That chart shows a drop due to the pandemic shutdowns, and subsequent culture shift to faster (or day 1) home streaming releases.
If it were more closely related to recession, we'd see a noticeable drop in 2008 as well.
What I see in this graph is a nosedive in 2020, then things getting normal in 2022 to 2023, and immediately going into nosedive again in the latter half of 2023 with the cost of living crisis.
Frankly, I wouldn't care if cinemas died out completely. Get much better sound and picture quality at home, anyway.
and subsequent culture shift to faster (or day 1) home streaming releases.
So what you're saying is that the graph supports my point counter to Tsujimoto's statement "Just because there’s a recession doesn’t mean you won’t go to the movie theater". People are going to the movie theater less in 2023.
Capcom:
Dragon's Dogma 2, which is scheduled for release this fiscal year, will be priced at $69.99. Industrywide development costs are rising, and we are considering a price review as one option. Ultimately, we intend to take a thoughtful approach in pricing our games while ascertaining user feedback.
Thoughtful approach in this case is taking the development cost into consideration and rising wages for workers (at least they state so). But yeah, the price is going to go up even more
They could do what the supermarkets are doing: raise prices while blaming it on increased labor costs as they lay off workers and cut salaries.
Yeah, that's what I would expect, too
Bruh the game dev market is abusive enough as is. Don't give them ideas.
I refuse to pay $70 for a game, especially with how many AAA flops we’ve seen, so I guess I’ll be replaying the first one again when this comes out.
Well, shouldn't we support the games that aren't a flop then? 😁
I do make a few exceptions, but it’s based on the feedback of the preorder people. I played the hell out of Dark Arisen, so I’m sure I’ll fold sooner than later with this one.
I just don’t like this $70 trend, especially when most companies aren’t passing that profit to the people that actually make these games. I want Capcom to be different and stick to their words, but I’m always a skeptic.