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"Are games too expensive?"

Tony will probably lynch me for this but, here goes:

Are games too expensive? I believe they are. The games industry is bigger than film now, and games cost far less to produce than films, but still, we spend £40 on a game we get to keep forever, but you only need to spend £5 on a film you see once. Even if you buy a film, it’s only about £12. I am not blaming the retailers for this situation, as they have to make a profit on what they buy. I blame the publishers and the Government. In my eyes, a CD costs 50p to make. You pay developers £10,000 a month, and there’s a team of 20 for 7 months. That’s $1,400,000. You sell, say, 1 million copies of a game, at say, £30. That’s £30,000,000. WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO???

I think Tony should clear this up for me, or am I right? Are we paying way over the odds for games?

Discuss:

But I remember during my MegaDrive days, £30 was always the target to buy a game. Even Sonic and Knuckles, with that really wierd cart, cost only £30 still!

(I remember this because Game vouchers could only be used "on purchases £30 or over" and games were £29.99! Damn!)

So our resident evil playing firend does know a bit about the games industry after all...

Back during the cartrige days, games were expensive due to being made out of expensive carts, being hard to mass produce and the technology was expensive.

Now days the CD's are cheaper to produce but the money has to be split between a large devellopment team.

Because so many games are purchased these days, games can afford to be cheaper.

I don't think games are very expensive but i still think they could be cheaper,It costs less to put them on cd than it does on a cartridge.

When the Snes was hot the games were £50 average,i think the Ps1 was the break through on cheaper games and the PS2 has them the cheapest every seen for a new game and new console.

my point being the prices are going down and the games are getting better and better.

i dont think we're paying to much for these games at all condidering the standard of gaming that we have and the fact that most of the games that come over here aren't too badly censored and most of the time not censored at all

I dont think they are too expensive. A few years back I would have disagreed, like playing £60 for some SNES titles. But now most PS2 games are sold between £35-45, I dont think that is much compared to the ammount of enjoyment they bring. To be honest what else could you get for £45 these days?? Maybe a night out?? Dont suppose you could even afford to get into a football game that much now!!

SonicRav wrote:
> Yes, good point er-no... but why are games more expensive here than
> the rest of the world.... it ain't taxes! Quite simply, we are being
> ripped off... on everything! For that reason I buy all my clothes
> overseas where they are half the price, and try to buy all my CDs
> from importers

Thats why I didn't answer that question, it is probably due to it not being home grown!

SonicRav wrote:
> Yes, good point er-no... but why are games more expensive here than
> the rest of the world.... it ain't taxes! Quite simply, we are being
> ripped off... on everything! For that reason I buy all my clothes
> overseas where they are half the price, and try to buy all my CDs
> from importers


Sonic

I asked this qeustion recently and was told that, aside from things like the 10% 'invisible tax', PAL is higher quality than the US one (NSTC, or something like that)-there are more lines on the TV. The extra price is paying for people adapting the game to PAL

Yes, good point er-no... but why are games more expensive here than the rest of the world.... it ain't taxes! Quite simply, we are being ripped off... on everything! For that reason I buy all my clothes overseas where they are half the price, and try to buy all my CDs from importers


Sonic

Zammo! There's a blast from the past.

Zammo thought the same, he chased the dragon and got burned.

Take heed.