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$60 Games Are Here To Stay

Posted by Zonk on from the damn-you-tantalizing-game-titles dept.

Next Generation explores the price jump for 'next generation' titles, looking into the success of the $60 price point for videogames. They have a copious number of graphs and charts to support their findings: "Even without Guitar Hero II, prices in 2007 are still at historically high levels. In January, fully four of the top 10 games sold for $60 or more. In February, that jumped to five $60 games, and the average rose accordingly. While there were four $60 games in March, they shared the top 10 with two Nintendo DS games which brought the average down sharply. This happened again in March -- the month of Pokemon -- and also in May."

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  1. $50 games by Twiceblessedman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wii games are $50 US, $60 games are not here to stay.

  2. Why in my day... by casualsax3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... games cost $90 and we had to play them on the Sega Saturn.

    1. Re:Why in my day... by Dogtanian · · Score: 2, Funny

      ... games cost $90 and we had to play them on the Sega Saturn. I was paying over $100 for Atari 2600 games when they came out. Asteroids, Pac-man, etc. That's nothing; I paid Ada Lovelace over $4000 for some games to run on the Difference Engine before it came out, and I'm still waiting for that damn piece of hardware to hit the shops.

      (And it were uphill both ways, etc...)
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  3. $60 games are here to stay *on the shelf* by Interl0per · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fixed ;)

  4. Re:piracy by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    I pirate games because there's nothing like the smell of black powder wafting across your forecastle after you've laid a broadside into an EA Game heavy with gold doubloons from the Spanish main. Aaarrrr!

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  5. Re:piracy by lpangelrob · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sid Meier, be that you???

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  6. Re:They did not go up in price, the dollar went do by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    But energy can neither be created or destroyed, how can it be inflated?

    (That's what you get for discussing economy with geeks...)

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  7. And in even more news... by 7Prime · · Score: 2, Funny

    Freeware games are here to suck.

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  8. Re:More like a revolution... by Froboz23 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, but running Windows Vista Ultimate on your new machine will throttle the performance back down to 486 levels. That's why the prices are similar.



    Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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