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re: Never Realized How Expensive Games Used To Be
Posted on 12/19/12 at 11:17 pm to Brosef Stalin
Posted on 12/19/12 at 11:17 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Neo Geo
I remember talking to my older brother about this system like it was some kind of unicorn.
Did you know there is a system called Neo Geo that has amazing graphics that put everything on the market to shame!
Really? Who has one we can play?
Nobody.
Posted on 12/20/12 at 4:54 am to Teddy Ruxpin
Old NES games ran for right at 60 bucks. I remember because my grandma would give me 5 bucks for every goal I scored in soccer. I knew if I scored 12, I had a new game.
Sadly , you can buy those games now for 2-5 bucks. Can you say depreciation.
Sadly , you can buy those games now for 2-5 bucks. Can you say depreciation.
Posted on 12/20/12 at 5:33 am to kballa6
A lot of the Square games were even more expensive. I think FF3(6) and Chrono Trigger were $80 at release.
Did it not happen this generation? I remember most new games during the ps2/xbox/gamecube era were $49.99. Now most new games are $59.99.
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I keep waiting on this to happen. With each new generation I expect to see a 5-10$ increase but it never happens.
Did it not happen this generation? I remember most new games during the ps2/xbox/gamecube era were $49.99. Now most new games are $59.99.
This post was edited on 12/20/12 at 5:34 am
Posted on 12/20/12 at 9:57 am to kballa6
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I keep waiting on this to happen. With each new generation I expect to see a 5-10$ increase but it never happens.
You sure about this? I may very well be wrong here, but this is what I'm remembering. PS1 games were roughly $40 new. PS2 and Xbox were roughly $50. PS3 and 360 are roughly $60 new. Like I said, I may very well be wrong here, but that's what I'm remembering.
And the reason these older games were so expensive was the cartridge. Once they got away from that cost went down.
Posted on 12/20/12 at 10:02 am to F machine
I remember most SNES games being 49.99 for some reason.
Posted on 12/20/12 at 11:32 am to Tigerfan7218
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Reason being is their profit margins have probably increased since then, because making the tech/games has gotten way way cheaper but the prices obviously don't reflect that.
Actually the exact opposite seems to be true.
Blockbuster titles have budgets similar to that of major movie releases the past few years.
The profit margins are actually shrinking which has closed the doors on basically every major game developer out there. The last standing "giants" are EA/bioware and ActivisionBlizzard. Outside of those 2 you've got Bathesda and Ubisoft as 2nd tier developers now.
It seems like prices are where they are because going any higher would become prohibitively expensive to the consumer and studios who can set the prices (like EA and Activision) know theyre maximizing profits while smaller studios are forced to release at the $59.99 price tag knowing they will have to sell a million+ copies to break even.
Once the next Xbox and PS are released, I imagine we'll start to see our first wave of $69.99 games hit the shelves, else EA and Activision will become the Microsoft/Apple of game development.
This post was edited on 12/20/12 at 11:33 am
Posted on 12/20/12 at 12:00 pm to F machine
Yeah I just looked up the original Halo and it was 49.99. I guess next gen consoles will get into the 69.99 range.
Posted on 12/20/12 at 12:05 pm to Broketec
Yeah like I said, go big or go home. Hopefully the next-gen console have digital distribution integration so game developers can cut out the middleman and get a better return on their games.
Posted on 12/20/12 at 12:12 pm to kballa6
I remember buying Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on Nintendo 64 at Service Merchandise when it first came out for $74.99. I usually post links, but I got nothing for that.
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