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Old 03-06-2006, 02:43 PM   #1
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Video Game prices are getting a tad high...
i mean, ok, $59.99, no biggie to me because thats how much the old school N64 carts were runnin, so when they threw that out as the price for next gen games, i was like 'meh', and me being a gamer, ill pretty much pay anything, hell, i got duped into a Saturn AND a 32X! So browsing EBgames.com, i come across the new Elder Scrolls for the 360., price? $69.99!!!!!

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Old 03-06-2006, 02:59 PM   #2
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Are you kidding me?

That's ridiculous. I never thought I'd say it (actually, nah, scratch that, I was intending on saying it anyway), but I'll be getting Oblivion for PC.

Screw the 360 and it's ridiculous prices. Not sure if Revolution/PS3 will be the same way (with PS3's Blu-Ray, I wouldn't be surprised), but I can pretty much bet that the gaming libraries for those two would be more likely to make me shell out 60 bucks than the library of the 360.

70 is insane, and even charging 59.99 is ridiculous. I hated that when the 360 first came out, and it only seems to be getting worse.
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Old 03-06-2006, 03:20 PM   #3
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They've projected PS3 games will be @70-75 bucks.

No word on Rev games, but with lower developmental stuff, it should be cheaper, comparable to the current market.
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Old 03-06-2006, 03:56 PM   #4
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They are fucking nuts. I'll just keep on playing PC and PS2. I can wait on the other shits.
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Old 03-06-2006, 03:56 PM   #5
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Yeah I always find myself thinking that if every game I wanted was $10 cheaper, I'd buy it. I can't raelly justify dropping $40 on a GBA game, or $50 for a DS title... but 30/40 I'd do. Dunnoo
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They've projected PS3 games will be @70-75 bucks.

No word on Rev games, but with lower developmental stuff, it should be cheaper, comparable to the current market.
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That's insane. I figured the Revolution might be a tad cheaper (maybe the same as new Xbox/GC/PS2 games are now?), so that's good, but 70-75 for PS3 games? Ludicrous.
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360 games are £49.99 over here. Which is approximately $87.50. Fuck that.
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Old 03-06-2006, 07:08 PM   #9
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I remeber buying Frank Thomas' Big Hurt for SNES for $75. Then it went on sale for $35. My moomy raised hell and got a refund.
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Old 03-06-2006, 11:55 PM   #10
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That's insane. I figured the Revolution might be a tad cheaper (maybe the same as new Xbox/GC/PS2 games are now?), so that's good, but 70-75 for PS3 games? Ludicrous.
I'm the bearer of bad news, because I'm so olveable. Nobody wants to hurt KK. He's so cuuuuuute.

The Rev should be cheaper, but PS3 games rely on Blu-Ray and require development on a newer, more advanced system. Projected costs for Blue Ray alone are pretty high comparably, and they're passing it on to us.
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Old 03-07-2006, 02:23 AM   #11
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Yeah, KK's right. Just becuase Blu-Ray is new, it's going to cost a crap load (laser discs, anyone?). The fact that it's more advanced doesn't help either.

Then there's the fact that since the games are (theoretically) bigger and better, the development costs will be higher, particularly on "killer ap" games.
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Old 03-07-2006, 11:00 AM   #12
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Sadly, they will use the "bigger disc" argument for launch titles, which will probably not use all that much more space than a PS2 disc.
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Old 03-07-2006, 11:12 AM   #13
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They've projected PS3 games will be @70-75 bucks.

No word on Rev games, but with lower developmental stuff, it should be cheaper, comparable to the current market.
Actually latest rumors go that the PS3 games will be around the 40-50 bucks.

Read that somewhere over at IGN.

The Rev games are thought to be around the 30-40 bucks...at least that is what they expect over at IGN.
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Old 03-07-2006, 11:14 AM   #14
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Thats why I buy all my games online, so much cheaper and I dont have to go to the shops in the rain.
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Old 03-07-2006, 12:23 PM   #15
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Actually latest rumors go that the PS3 games will be around the 40-50 bucks.

Read that somewhere over at IGN.

The Rev games are thought to be around the 30-40 bucks...at least that is what they expect over at IGN.
That's a rumour, whereas previous projections from Sony were estimating that they would be at LEAST 10-20 dollars higher than the current generation.

The same way they didn't give us an exact price point on the PSP, but we knew it was going to be at least 200 bucks initially because they said so. So...
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Old 03-07-2006, 12:50 PM   #16
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The reason why its $70 is because you are getting the special edition that comes out at launch.

The regular one is still $60.
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Old 03-07-2006, 12:51 PM   #17
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The reason why its $70 is because you are getting the special edition that comes out at launch.

The regular one is still $60.
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That's a rumour, whereas previous projections from Sony were estimating that they would be at LEAST 10-20 dollars higher than the current generation.

The same way they didn't give us an exact price point on the PSP, but we knew it was going to be at least 200 bucks initially because they said so. So...
But, but...everything they say on the internet is true.

Olright, i'm hoping that they'll be around the price i mentioned.

If Sony wants the PS3 to get rolling they better make the games cheaper then the 360 games.
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If Sony wants the PS3 to get rolling they better make games cheaper and better.

A lot of the 360 games are getting panned still. High prices and lackluster game support will kill a system. Of course it's sony, so overcharging for lackluster shit probably WILL happen.

At this point, I thinking that unless the PS3 does go cheaper, Nintendo will win simply because of their digital library and price. Sony and Microsoft have been trying to advance the standard of gaming far beyond that of the spending power of their audience.
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i might get a rev because i was watching gamer tv and they said that you can downlaod any game online apart from gamecube...
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i might get a rev because i was watching gamer tv and they said that you can downlaod any game online apart from gamecube...
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