Gaming EXTRA! PS3 Games Prices May SURPASS $59.99! Read all about it!

[Tatsubei Yagyu]

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Comic Sans MS][QUOTE=1up.com] People were understandably upset when companies decided next-generation meant charging everyone $10 more for their games -- especially when the price was applied to last-generation ports like GUN and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Nonetheless, most have sucked it up at this point, but no one anticipated Sony would actually up the ante when PlayStation 3 dropped in November.

Yet SCEA president Kaz Hirai isn't promising a $59.99 price tag for PS3 games this fall. In an interview with PSM, the Sony leader explained. So, what I can say now is, I think it would be a bit of a stretch to think that we could suddenly turn around and say "PS3 games now $99.99" I don't think the consumers expect the software pricing to suddenly be double," he told the magazine. "So, if it becomes a bit higher than fifty-nine bucks don't ding me, but, again, as I said, I don't expect it to be a hundred bucks."

In other words, consumers should expect PS3 games to cost somewhere between $59.99 and $99.99. He doesn't expect them to be a hundred dollars, but it's only a "stretch" to expect it. Have we moved back to the cartridge ages here? Wasn't disc-based media supposed to make everything cheaper? I don't want to remember how much my parent's paid for several of Square's older SNES releases during Christmas.

Sony's cocky enough to price their hardware above the competition, but we don't seriously expect them to change consumer expectations for software prices. We hope.[/QUOTE]
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How many more reasons are they gonna give me to get a Wii over the PS3... :mad:

So yeah. It seems that gaming for the PS3 is possibly gonna cost the price of seven Gamecubes for one PS3 and game... I think that they maybe getting a little ahead of themselves, considering I still think that $60 is to much for a non-imported game. How many of you are still getting the PS3 AND the games for these outrageous prices? Many this is just other rumor...I hope it's just another rumor...

Seriously, it's getting a little more than expensive to be a gamer nowadays...[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Ikillion]

[COLOR=#af992f][SIZE=1][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Wow...thats just...wow

I heard about this I think on G4 some time but I though it was just some kind of a dream. Guess it isnt. Now I just think that the PS3 just went down to the last consol on my wish list. I think that sony is trying to piggy-back on "Oh, they probaly won't mind that we raise the prices a bit. We have such good games they will be blind as we collect their Moneh!" Yet with what we have all seen from the Wii, Sony is getting way to cocky and lazy for their own good.

I mean heck I knew that game prices were going to raise, and I was prepared to getting accustomed to paying fifty, sixty and maybe seventy dollars at the most for a Next-gen game. Yet a hundred? I have to say thats just a little bit to much overboard for me. However the one thing that may draw me back is the games. If some of the Sony exculsive games stay on the PS3 then I think I just may sacrifice it all for it. Yeah I know I am easily manupliated. Its just the games! Thats what Sony is counting on I bet, on how they are going to sell such an expensive machine.

Thats just my two cents though.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[nomad19]

that's not surprising, gaming's getting pretty expensive with every new console launch, from $10 bucks to $30, $40, $50...
there was speculation around the same time of the unveiling of the ps3 that games might even cost $70...bigger budgets mean bigger bucks...

I'm still getting a ps3 no matter what though hehe....now what to do with my ps2 game library?

[Charles]

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Don't look for the games to be much (if any) more expensive than Xbox 360 games. Sony hasn't done itself a favor with hardware pricing, so I doubt they're going to price themselves out of the market, considering how similar-looking Xbox 360 games are going to be.

[Tatsubei Yagyu]

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Heh, it may be old, but I just heard it yesterday... :animeswea

Well, damn, it's Sony's plan. As Nomad19 an Ikillion said, they [I][B]KNOW[/B][/I] we want their games, and they [I][B]KNOW[/B][/I] that a lot of people are still gonna buy some games no matter how high the price...

So thus, they may jump off the cliff, waiting to land on the safe cushion of fanboys that are fighting the catch them...

The thing that makes me angry the most...is that I may be one of them... :( [/FONT] [/COLOR]

[Andy]

I am also one of those Sony fanboys and I am probably going to get a ps3. But I really hope the games aren't going to be over $80 because I really don't have the money,I mean that would be outrageous prices there, but I'm still probably going to get one, no matter what the price.(with a few exceptions) :animeswea

[Guest Cynical]

With the ps3 going to be over $500, I don't plan on getting one until the price goes down and they get the bugs out. I made the mistake of getting a ps2 launch day and regreted it ever since. The only way I plan on getting a ps3 before the cheaper/better model comes out is for a Final Fantasy VII remake, or if MGS4 is the greatest game ever, so I'm not getting my hopes up. $59.99 is pretty steep, but I'm not that much of a consle gamer anymore since I got WoW.

[Panache]

Ehh 70$+ oh forget that. Ill just put 600 dollars into my p/c and play the best games on that. I mean are they crazy? Have they seen the wii recently? It's going for the cheap cool idea approach. I think sony shoudl lean more towards that. At this rate the only 2 console's in the console wars will be the wii and 360. I mean ifthere games are gonna be 70$ then I can probably only buy like 1 every 4 months. So these games better have 500+ hours of gamepaly each or im not buying this ghastly sytem. Shoot I might just buy the console and ff13 beacuse that is the main reason im buying it. But then again there's a chance that that will coem out on the 360. Yo microsoft JUMP ON THAT NOW! I mean it's not like there short on money. I mean as the most important franchises are being taken by microsoft sony should make their games more accesable not less. I mean imagine this
I wanna buy grand theft auto 4. It's out on the xbox 360 for 60 dollars new and 45 used. Then theres the playstation 3 which makes 2 of the billions of pixels .0005 more shiny. But these games cost 80$ each. Which am I gonna pick?

[Charles]

[quote name='Cynical']$59.99 is pretty steep[/quote]

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[Panache]

[quote name='Charles][CENTER][IMG]http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/1593/hillscopy4cm.gif[/IMG'][/CENTER][/quote] :animenose All I can say is pwned.

[Tatsubei Yagyu]

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Comic Sans MS]$70 for Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers?

Ok, I don't really remember much about the prices of games back then, because based on research I did just now by looking at Earthworm Jim's release date, I was 4 years old, and I wasn't a big gamer back then. I was to busy with Pre-School, and chicks. :animeswea

But really, I remember hearing that the reason the disks are used now instead of carts. is that it would make games cheaper.

But hey, now it games may be a hundred dollars, so I guess that plan may fail. :rolleyes: [/FONT][/COLOR]

[Morpheus]

The problem is that while CDs, DVDs, and HD-DVDs are inexpensive ($.25 or less) to manufacture, Blu-Ray disks aren't. A Rewritable Blu-Ray disk retails around $20, whereas the crafty consumer can get 50 DVD-Rs or 100 CD-R's for about the same. The price point is it's real fault. Sure it can store twice the data of an HD-DVD, but the jump in quality is minimal at best. I mean, an upscaled DVD is nearer to HD quality then one would think, and Blu-Ray just can't justify a high price for a slightly better picture.

[James]

[font=arial]I also think it's important to point out that the prices listed here are deceptive in one important way: currency values change. Today's $59.99 would have been worth significantly more ten or fifteen years ago. So although old games may appear more expensive on the surface, they actually aren't, as a result of currency value changes.

So PS3's games could easily be the most expensive ever, depending on which way Sony chooses to take their software pricing strategy.[/font]

[Sandy]

Pfft, stop complaining over there! In Europe, almost all new games cost 59,99 [I]euros[/I], which in dollars is something like 76,50$. ;P

The prices have been like that for years, and they include games from all consoles except PC (which are like ten euros cheaper).

What's worse, Sony has decided to convert the price of PS3 to euros with the most simple formula: the console will cost 499,99 ? - 599,99 ? here, which in dollars would be about 640,00 $ - 765,00 $. Talking about currency values... XP I mean, would you pay [I]that[/I] much for a console?

[Panache]

[QUOTE=Sandy]Pfft, stop complaining over there! In Europe, almost all new games cost 59,99 [I]euros[/I], which in dollars is something like 76,50$. ;P

The prices have been like that for years, and they include games from all consoles except PC (which are like ten euros cheaper).

What's worse, Sony has decided to convert the price of PS3 to euros with the most simple formula: the console will cost 499,99 ? - 599,99 ? here, which in dollars would be about 640,00 $ - 765,00 $. Talking about currency values... XP I mean, would you pay [I]that[/I] much for a console?[/QUOTE]
I doubt that sony would nearly double the price of it's sytem over the xbox 360. That would be an AWEFUL move. I mean considering the ps2 is probably one of the most well known sytems partially bacuse of good marketing moves. I doubt they would screw theres by making such a stupid one. I mean yes it's slightly better than the competition but it's not twice as good. So they better find some way to make this big ole thing cost less and do it fast. Or there going to be in last place in the console market. Sure it might have great games but if you can only buy one of them a year it aint gonna do sony much good.

[Morpheus]

[QUOTE=James][font=arial]I also think it's important to point out that the prices listed here are deceptive in one important way: currency values change. Today's $59.99 would have been worth significantly more ten or fifteen years ago. So although old games may appear more expensive on the surface, they actually aren't, as a result of currency value changes.

So PS3's games could easily be the most expensive ever, depending on which way Sony chooses to take their software pricing strategy.[/font][/QUOTE]
You're right on the point James, but you've got it backwards. The old games that cost $60 or $70 seem expensive, and when you factor in inflation, are even more expensive, since the dollar is worth less now than it was 10 years ago. Sony's games aren't the most expensive ever by a longshot compared to these.

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.[/SIZE]

[QUOTE=Sandy]Pfft, stop complaining over there! In Europe, almost all new games cost 59,99 [I]euros[/I], which in dollars is something like 76,50$. ;P

The prices have been like that for years, and they include games from all consoles except PC (which are like ten euros cheaper).

What's worse, Sony has decided to convert the price of PS3 to euros with the most simple formula: the console will cost 499,99 ? - 599,99 ? here, which in dollars would be about 640,00 $ - 765,00 $. Talking about currency values... XP I mean, would you pay [I]that[/I] much for a console?[/QUOTE]

[SIZE=1]I was just about to bring that up, I was in Dublin a few days ago and the new Xbox 360 games are retailing at ?69.99, which is in or around $84.50. I realise that Sony can basically charge people whatever they like for these games, and really as a gaming PC owner I can't really say that ?500-?600 is excessive for a machine when I paid ?1669 for mine, especially when a lot of what I can do with my XPS is available for G4 consoles.

I still feel that they're taking advantage of people with this kind of pricing, but there's really nothing anyone can do, people will inevitably buy the games and pay full price.[/SIZE]

[James]

[quote name='Morpheus']You're right on the point James, but you've got it backwards. The old games that cost $60 or $70 seem expensive, and when you factor in inflation, are even more expensive, since the dollar is worth less now than it was 10 years ago. Sony's games aren't the most expensive ever by a longshot compared to these.[/quote]

[font=arial]Yeah, I think you are right. My mistake.

Having said that, I think it's reasonable to expect PS3 games to regularly retail for more than previous generation games. Even at $59.99, developers are going to have trouble turning a profit unless they have astronomical sales.

I tend to think that we're on the tip of the iceberg with this stuff. Microsoft has already set a price precedent and Sony are likely to match it (or go slightly over on selected titles).[/font]

[The Spectacular Professor]

I don't want to sound biased, but I am just curious as to who would have the money to buy the system in the first place, let alone the price of the games when they come out. I really don't see PS3 getting a profit any faster than the original Xbox.

[Morpheus]

[quote name='Aceburner'] I really don't see PS3 getting a profit any faster than the original Xbox.[/quote]
I agree with you. The PS3 will never pull a profit; the marketing sceme doesn't work.

[2010DigitalBoy]

Pfff.... hell, no way dude. I will not pay no 70 dollars for a game unless it is [I]The ****[/I]. In fact, that better be the title of the game >_>

as if 600 dollars for the console weren't absurd enough already. I dunno how this is gunna work, but Im a bit aggrivated. Smaller game developers shall be destroyed.

[Guest Exokriz]

Sony is getting to where they rip people off, I'm pretty much a Nintendo fan becuase they have decent games and they are cheap. After I heard the price of the PS3 and now the games I'm all for the Wii.

[The Spectacular Professor]

[quote name='Exokriz']Sony is getting to where they rip people off, I'm pretty much a Nintendo fan becuase they have decent games and they are cheap. After I heard the price of the PS3 and now the games I'm all for the Wii.[/quote]
Yeah, they were the most popular system for 2 generations and THIS is how they repay their loyal fans. I don't fel like a rat when I desert this sinking ship, folks.

[Sangome]

[font=arial]Holy sweet freaking--

As if the PS3 itself wasn't expensive enough, now the games can and may be 100 bucks a pop?!

Uh-uh. No way. Unless it's for a possible KHIII, Xenosaga III, or the next FF games, I am not getting a PS3. That's just too much for one system...!

Just all the more reason for me to go back to my Nintendo fangirl roots. If I were at the age where my parents could simply BUY the games for me, it'd be no problem, but alas...[/font]

[Charles]

[QUOTE=Sangome]Holy sweet freaking--

As if the PS3 itself wasn't expensive enough, now the games can and may be 100 bucks a pop?![/QUOTE]

:animesigh

All right, this is pointless. Read through the thread. Playstation 3 games will not be one-hundred dollars. If Playstation 3 games end up costing significantly more than Xbox 360 games (which will NOT be the case) then we can raise the issue then. Until that happens, there is no point in continuing this baseless speculation and doom-speak.