The Price of games...

ok so in canada the price of new games were 59.99 but now it just reached....69.99. thats the most ridiculas thing i ever seen. if this continues then i wont buy a next gen system. if the price goes up again then the thought of modding my system will come to play. what happen to the good old days where new games were 49.99. what about you guys? whats the price of your games where you live?

I can't see why so many people are complaining. Do you know what inflation is? Games rarely go up in price, And when they do gamers make it sound like the sky is falling.

Technically games are cheaper now than they were priced at $49.99 10 years ago

with all this talk about how much more expensive games will be for devs nex gen i really hope MS, Sony and Nintendo don't up the antee with the hardware too much. something with 1GB RAM or 2GB and a decent dual core CPU should be fine for me.

sure, it would upset PC devs who want to make console ports, but they will always have their pc gamers buying their new 2GB graphics cards and upgrading to 8GBs of RAM to play half life 3.

Consoles are meant to be cheap for the consumer, i wouldn't mind at all if nex gen consoles barely improve the hardware, keeping costs down for a whole gen so devs can reap in the money

70 bucks for games is ridiculous, thats part of the reason why A) im building a gaming pc and B) im going back and playing a whole bunch of games i havent finished,the games that are out right now can wait....for a price cut ;)

If the price bothers you, get a new hobby or buy used only. It's sucks but you gotta pay.

$60.00 is to high for games plain and simple. I however do not control the market and cannot go without buying games so I guess I am S.O.L

with all this talk about how much more expensive games will be for devs nex gen i really hope MS, Sony and Nintendo don't up the antee with the hardware too much. something with 1GB RAM or 2GB and a decent dual core CPU should be fine for me.

darth-pyschosis

When we were buying games for the NES, new ones would cost anyone from $40 - $50 brand new. If the games kept pace with inflation, they would literally cost anywhere from 72.00 to 90.00 now. Add into that that the cost of developing a lot of these games is increasing dramatically, and you would realize that gaming is cheaper now than it was in the past.

To build on what Darth-Psychosis posted,take a look at what's going on with the PS3 to see what happens when a console becomes harder to develop for. Next generation's systems, if they take another massive leap, are going to become ungodly expensive for developers. So you're either going to see a lot fewer games, or the cost of a particular game to go even higher per unit than they are now.

Am I the only one who waits for price drops? You don't have to ever buy a game new. Waiting 6 months won't do anything but make the price go down. I think most games at $50/$60 (don't own a console for a reason :)) aren't worth it because of a combination of low quality campaigns or more focus on irrelevant things (i.e graphics).

ok so in canada the price of new games were 59.99 but now it just reached....69.99. thats the most ridiculas thing i ever seen. if this continues then i wont buy a next gen system. if the price goes up again then the thought of modding my system will come to play. what happen to the good old days where new games were 49.99. what about you guys? whats the price of your games where you live?

noble_aryan

Well something like Prototype here in Finland is:

- around 45e($63) on PC
- around 60e($85) on PS3/360

I think they're a bit on the expensive side, especially on consoles. Personally I rarely buy new games, much rather pick them up when they're down to 20-30 and have all the patches and DLC out.

here (Illinois :P) games tend to be 50- 60 but it seems like games go into bargain prices a lot more in my town then they do in areas around me.

Do what i do and play lots of old games. Fallout 1, 2 and tacticsare only 5 poundsfor all 3.

Evil genius is on steam for 6.99 (10 dollers i think) which is a very good game that nobody played. and some current gen games are cheap now (LBP is only 20 pounds)

yeah, when you look at it just because its a new generation, why does it have to be a new price..i know the games take more work to make, but most times there short and just wasn't fun.

We still have it pretty good by comparison to Great Britain or Australia and other places. It's insane what some of them have to put up with.