Why must all new games cost $60?

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#101 mitu123
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[QUOTE="guitarshr3dd3r"][QUOTE="CoolSkAGuy"]Prices were originally at 50$ but then gears of war came out and sold well at the price point of 60$(no other game at the time charged this excluding music games) and well gears sold well and im guessing all devs were like "hey now if they can get more money from the consumer why can't we?" months later every game came out for 60$ :(. Well that's what I think anyway. so blame Gears!CoolSkAGuy
360 Games debuted at 50?

Yeah if I remember correctly yes.

You mean Rare's games like Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo. I don't remember other third party games being that much.

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#102 Black-October
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I'm sorry if it seemed like I was attacking you personally, because I didn't mean to. I'm also anticipating Assassin's Creed II. I liked the first one, but I thought it was extremely repetetive and somewhat glitchy. I'm waiting to make sure they have addressed all of those issues before I would be willing to drop $60 for it.

Last year at this time I probably bought an average of 2-3 new games per month which I would think was above average. I basically got sick and tired of incomplete, inferior games, that would have been $20 in the last couple of PS2 generation years. I also am totally disgusted by "preorder exclusives", and new game only content. Buying a video game should not be like buying a car. Ah well, now I am down to buying about one new title every 2-3 months, and only if I think the quality is there, which is not very much.

You are right, one person is not enough to make a difference. But me + you = 2. Plus all of the people agreeing with you in this post, plus the dozens I have seen posting the same points is going to eventually have an effect. Fads and trends do not last forever, and video gaming is no exception. If they continually raise prices, drop quality, and make the customer feel screwed (by the preorder exclusives that not everyone can get, and new game only content), the entire industry will crash.

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You seem to be the type to expect more than a developer promises who buys a game at launch, and then complain about the game not being up to your standards and then start bashing the developer for your ignorance.

You forget that there's only ONE goal the entertainment industry aims for and that's : Consume. Consume, consume, consume. Unfortunately we, the consumer, are stupid enough to fall prey to the industries gimmicks.

All a "new" game needs is a couple of minor tweaks, a new label and it's out the door. The sad part is that people buy into it and don't even care. They are consuming and the industry continues to thrive. Simple as that. It's not a fad or trend, it's ignorance.