Be honest, what do you think is a fair price for video games?

60 bucks feel a litttle expensive but not too bad, over in the UK they spend 50 pound for a game which is about 100 dollars here. What do you think.

60 bucks feel a litttle expensive but not too bad, over in the UK they spend 50 pound for a game which is about 100 dollars here. What do you think.

-SPECTER-MIKE

$40 if its new, $30 if its half a year to a year and a half old, $20 if its more than a year and a half old, $10 if its more than two years old.

I understand what you mean, 100 bucks over there is not the same over here.

60 bucks. No questions. Games cost a lot more to make these days and its not like games have never been 60 dollars.gunswordfist

I would say $40-$50,$60 is too much specially games that have that "meh" factor.

$20-40 for Wii games, $30-50 for PC and other console games.

[QUOTE="gunswordfist"]60 bucks. No questions. Games cost a lot more to make these days and its not like games have never been 60 dollars.Black_Knight_00

I'm always up for the good ol $50 for a new game.

$30-40 wouldn't be a bad price IMO.

$40.00 for console games and $20 for handheld games would be fair imo.

60 bucks feel a litttle expensive but not too bad, over in the UK they spend 50 pound for a game which is about 100 dollars here. What do you think.

-SPECTER-MIKE

I wish the price for all new games was around 39.95, but I know with the cost of creating games now being so high it will never happen = (

In the UK console games usually start at 40 pounds and PC games around 30.

I'd be happier if console games started at the same price as PC games.

I think that $60 is a reasonable price, considering how much it costs to make a game. However, theres no way I could afford to buy every game I want to play for the full new price, so I'm more willing to buy a used game. I feel bad because I know it's ripping off the developer, but I don't want to miss out on gameseither.

$40 if its new, $30 if its half a year to a year and a half old, $20 if its more than a year and a half old, $10 if its more than two years old.

Xeros606

20 bucks per game. Affordable for everyone and enough turn in profits. I bet if games were sold at 20 each, people would be less hesitant to buy games.

$ 5-10... but that's only because when I convert the dollars into my country's money, it becomes more of a fair price to me. :? But more internationally speaking.. I guess $20 would be fair enough.

$ 5-10... but that's only because when I convert the dollars into my country's money, it becomes more of a fair price to me. :? But more internationally speaking.. I guess $20 would be fair enough.

Ceraby

If developers pay attention to sales, they would know that most people are willing to buy games at 20 bucks because when games prices drop at 20, they sell more than when they're $60.

I don't mind paying $50 dollars but there should be a drop somewhere along the timeline. They should all look on how well sales go when Steam does a 50% off for a weekend on a game, that is a very smart idea.

I think a fair price is whatever the market will support. Games are a luxury item.

$20 new, same as most DVDs.

$50 for ps3 360

wii games $40

DS $30

psp $30

i would like to see them for 30-40 dollars and under, wii has many of these examples,,

360 ps3=50

wii-30-40 or less

ds-1999-2499

psp-39-49

ps2- since it is so old-19.99

60 bucks feel a litttle expensive but not too bad, over in the UK they spend 50 pound for a game which is about 100 dollars here. What do you think.

-SPECTER-MIKE

No we don't pay £50.00 for a game in the U.K !

Get your facts right.

It all depends on the game really. I feel most games are worth the prices they are going for these days so I'd consider them fair right now.

For a new PC and Console game, it should be around 30-40 dollars. For handhelds, 20-30 dollars.

Depends. I'd pay a lot more for a niche game that happens to be targeting me as its audience. I feel that is only fair since the developers are sacrificing potential sales to make the game more enjoyable for the remaining audience.

I'd also pay a lot more for a game of noticeably higher quality. If Starcraft II say included all 3 campaigns and cost $100, I'd gladly pay it because I'm confident I would get my money's worth from Blizzard. The game would likely be twice as enjoyable as your average game, so why not pay twice the price for that quality.

I think we are getting a remarkable deal for video games these days. Games are around 1/3 of the price that they were when I was growing up in the early 80s. (relative to everything else = accounting for inflation)

fortunately i can always get my games for the prices many are saying, in my country they are more expensive and going to sites like amazon or ebay makes a huge diference, you can get new games for 20 dolars less, maybe wait a few months and you can play those you dont care much used.

recently i got a new ut3 and dead space plus used mass effect and fifa for 70 bucks! thats almost the price of one new game, sure the games are out for a while but even new ones you can find 2 for the price of one out there you guys should try that out

I think that $60 is a reasonable price, considering how much it costs to make a game. However, theres no way I could afford to buy every game I want to play for the full new price, so I'm more willing to buy a used game. I feel bad because I know it's ripping off the developer, but I don't want to miss out on gameseither.

LadyFreyja

I don't mind paying $50 dollars but there should be a drop somewhere along the timeline. They should all look on how well sales go when Steam does a 50% off for a weekend on a game, that is a very smart idea.

Scientist8

I'm gonna make my response simple...

60 dollars is fair, as long as the game doesn't suck. Plain and simple. If you pay on the order of 8 dollars for an hour and a half movie, but 60 dollars for a 10 hour game who wins out?

$29.99, period. Game developers have gotten way too arrogant and serious about their products and are robbing customers. And don't even get me started on gaming consoles. But the same goes for Hollywood. A game is a game. It's not an OS, it can't be used for anything other than mindlessness and escapism, though we see people breaking the bank on these things. Tells us something about modern society I think, going into debt over video games?

I'm gonna make my response simple...

60 dollars is fair, as long as the game doesn't suck. Plain and simple. If you pay on the order of 8 dollars for an hour and a half movie, but 60 dollars for a 10 hour game who wins out?

I agree that game prices have gotten really out of hand. I'm not sure what high paying, six figure salary jobs some of you guys have, or if you still live with your parents and just don't have any living expenses, but $60 is a lot of money for the rest of us. That's my cable or DSL bill for a month, or half of my electric bill or car insurance. And games are pretty meaningless in the scheme of things. They're just entertainment.

$19.99 for new games seems pretty reasonable to me. I don't get substantially more entertainment out of most games than I do out of DVD movies. There have been a few, like Half-Life 2, that were in a completely different league of entertainment, but those types of games are the exception, not the rule.