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"Are console games a rip off?"

Please tell me if you think the current price of games are too much and is there any price/scheme that will imrpove this? I think paying £29.99 - £34.99 per game is too much especially since you get no more then a game for your investment. Any sugesstions and feedback?

I think the Irish market is being seriously overcharged. When games first go on sale for say, the PS2, they were priced at about 70-75 euro, but most shops got pulled up over this, so now most are at about 60-65 euro, which is about 55 pounds I think. There is one good place that I buy from online that is cheaper than most shops though, so I rarely buy from the high street so-to-speak.

I think kids should get a paperound. I did. Now i get a game every month or so. Gives you enough time to really get into a game rather than making it just sit there after a measly 3 minutes of playing time.

I think games should be about £15-20, this way more kids can offord them, which means less kids would stop getting the consoles chipped which means that they would sell more games.

SNES games anyone? Mega Drive???

They could cost anything upto eighty quid when they first came out, so personally I think they're not over priced nowadays.

no way man i mean i dont like shelling out 30 quid for a game but i am a true gamer and i will continue doing so even if the prices go up, i feel that i get my moneys worth buying games for 30 quid i mean wat would you rather do go to a concert or own a video game, an average concert ticket is 30 quid and thats only for one night but a game can last you your whole life time.
so its up to the people and i would like to ask them, "were you satisfied with the last game you bought? do you still play the first game you bought?
remembr playstation2 rocks

I was quite amazed by the pricing difference in the U.S. I went over there and bought Nightfire for $9.99, which is what 6 quid?!?! Meanwhile it was still being sold over her for £34.99. A joke.

there several factors which could cause this.

1) VAT is included as most games aren't really that much cheaper in other countries. If we removed the VAT.

2) Potentially, taxes and other tarriffs or quotas could have been imposed to maintain a market there (highly unlikely, most of the games are either american or japanese)

3) They are charging us at a price which could be "reasonable" but on the way to england, shipping and middle man costs jack up the price (so factors of distribution affects this)

4)There isn't a great market of games in uk (hahaha) and to make sure its profitable they jack the price so they can get the same amount of gain from other more profitable areas.

Well, i'm stumped. Any other theories?

I think games ARE overpriced for one reason alone -
WHY ARE GAMES SO MUCH CHEAPER ABROAD?!

It isn't because of PAL conversions or language additions.. they're just ripping us off!

SonicRav

they weren't as expensive as before. MK3 for the sns 50-60 tag. By 1994 games were around the 50-60 range as well. Its only now that people have dropped them down to 40-50 pounds. Still, too expensive for me.

I agree there! I paid 120 quid for streetfighter 2 turbo on the Super Famicom (many years ago, imported from Nippon). No word of a lie - it wouldn't fetch a quid on ebay now.