Can $60 Games Survive?

donniebaseball23 writes "Game budgets continue to rise with each successive console generation, and with the Wii U launching later this year, the industry is on the cusp of yet another costly transition. Publishers have been regularly charging $60 for games this generation, but that model simply cannot survive, Nexon America CEO Daniel Kim said in an interview. 'I think at some point the console makers have to make a decision about how closed or open they're going to be to the different models that are going to be emerging,' Kim remarked. 'Today it's free-to-play, and I'm convinced that that one is going to continue to flourish and expand into other genres and other categories, but there may be something else completely and entirely different that comes out that again changes the industry.' He cautioned, 'If your mind is just set on keeping the current model of buy a game for $60, play for 40 hours, buy another game for $60, play for 40 hours, that model I think is eventually going to change. It's going to have to change.'"

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Re:$60 games? Luxury!

[sunderland56]

The same thing happened in Canada.

At least in Canada you can pick up games in the US - drive down for the weekend, the savings can offset the cost of gas.

It's not the price of the game that matters

[MeNeXT]

I buy and play games because they are fun! What is killing the $60 games it's that they are not worth $60. They are the same game as the last one with better graphics more DRM and the same glitches. When you are playing a multiplayer game and can't kill your opponent when you sneak up behind them and empty all your rounds into their backs. They turn around and with one bullet you are dead. It's not a cheat it's a poor engine design because I've been at both ends of the experience.

And for the love of god I know it's EA DICE FROSTBITE or whatever company designed the game. Stop wasting my time with endless start up ads then proceed to load the game while I'm looking a a screen which is flashing LOADING..... I only have about one hour at a time to play. I have to earn a living in order to pay the $60 or more for the game so I don't have much time.

Get rid of DRM.

I bought a 300Gig HD because it made sense to load the games so I wouldn't have to wait for the slow DVD/BR.

I need to be able to sell the game since I can't return it if I don't like it or wish to purchase a new one.

I don't need any additional warning messages. They are already in the booklet that came with the game.

So basically the solution is: Fix the bugs. Don't waste my time. Let me play by getting out of my way. Get rid of DRM. I will gladly pay $60.