$60 Game Comeback?

[gekko]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

First, compared to the last generation of consoles, the current 128-bit generation requires at least 40 times as many lines of code to fully exploit its capabilities. And that costs money.

Thank you Sony.

I don't blame them. Today's games mostly suck, but it's no surprise, because if it doesn't have good graphics, it won't sell. So you have to spend a lot of time making the game look good, less time making the gameplay good. Then people will hype the game until it's release, say it sucks, and it won't sell very well.

I'll stick to Pac-Man.

[Jonbo298]

Originally Posted by gekko

Today's games mostly suck, but it's no surprise, because if it doesn't have good graphics, it won't sell.

The one major exception being Animal Crossing

[gekko]

Ya, except Animal Crossing sucked

[Stonecutter]

You know.

Much as I want to bitch about this, it actually doesn't bother me. I remember paying 70! for street fighter 2 turbo hyper fighting for the SNES and that was 9 or 10 years ago. 60$ now is probably less than 50$ ten years ago (I can't back that up but it's got to be close).

I've been buying less and less games and when it comes to SC2, halo 2, Fzero GX, and a handfull of others I will be picking up in the near future, I really won't mind.

[CrOnO_LiNk]

As price goes up, demand goes down. It will definitely sell less than before. If Sony stays at $50 per game and Xbox shifts the price at $60, PS2 games would substitute Xbox games and easily take them out the market...

That's what I think, but the demand will go down if companies increase their price.