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2012-04-19, 12:45 AM | [Ignore Me] #1 | ||
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Why the end of the $60 video game is near
Interesting read. I hate that games on facebook, tablets, phones are becoming mainstream gaming, but I'm fine with big companies losing money by having to charge less for that box. Could mean less staff and longer production time but the good companies will still be around. |
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2012-04-19, 01:50 AM | [Ignore Me] #2 | ||
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I'm personally fine paying $60 for a good game such as TES, Halo, ARMA, stuff of the like. But there are some games out there that make you pay that much for way less content. Namely recent Call of Duties... all cookie cutter, they're just expansion packs and are worth maybe $10 each.
I also think it's horrible that shit like PHONES are becoming popular gaming platforms. |
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2012-04-19, 04:43 AM | [Ignore Me] #3 | ||
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Personally if they lowered the prices of big titles like COD, Halo, BF, etc. to $30-$40 I would probably by a lot more games, and I'm sure many others would too. Especially with the recent trend of releasing a new version of the same game every year, I wouldn't mind it as much if it was half the price.
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2012-04-19, 07:13 AM | [Ignore Me] #4 | ||
It just hit the PC market really. Its not going anywhere.
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2012-04-22, 12:29 AM | [Ignore Me] #6 | |||
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MB/mouse excel at certian things, and Game pads/controllers excel at others. touchscreen/phones do too. hell, originally videogames didn't use mouse and keyboards |
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2012-04-22, 08:11 AM | [Ignore Me] #8 | ||
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I wonder why games on the phone and games on the console/PC are even considered in the same bracket. I don't know about other people, but if I'm sitting at a computer, I'll play PC games. If I'm outside the house, I'll use my phone to pass the free time. Do I even need to say they don't play the same kinds of games?
They're two different things and IMHO if you have to choose between buying Angry Birds and buying BF3 due to a budget, you have bigger worries. Not saying games are too expensive, they are, I just don't understand why people think people think buying phone games affects how many full priced games they buy. I've always known since the 360 came out that $60 is far too much for a game and drives away many potential customers. If they're only figuring that out now, there may be a problem.
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2012-04-23, 03:06 PM | [Ignore Me] #11 | |||
I both agree and disagree with what the actual article says though. $60 is way too much for a phone time-waster (or even a tablet time-waster), but I see every justifiable reason for that cost for PC titles (read: not console), if anything simply due to the amount of artist man-hours that went into creating the high-res textures and high-polygon models that we expect of PC titles nowdays. But obviously, some games here suffer from popularity: MW3 isn't worth the price, but I do think that ME3 is. I think that what's really happening though, is a broadening of the gaming market in general. We have a lot of technology around us now and we're finding more time that needs wasting, so we'll be finding ways to waste it through PC games, and through Angry Birds while en route to our home supercomputers.
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2012-04-24, 10:22 AM | [Ignore Me] #12 | ||||
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2012-04-24, 03:55 PM | [Ignore Me] #13 | ||
Yeah the $60 game is going to end, I'll be $70 when the next-gen hits
With hi-res graphics come people that have to make hi-res art. And it don't come too cheap. As others have said. But there's also room at the bottom for quality titles that aren't Blockbuster-productions. Bastion and other indie stuff. More good games out there now than ever before. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
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2012-04-26, 02:04 PM | [Ignore Me] #15 | |||
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