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"Inflated prices"

y r games so expensive when cds r 10p to make each but new games are £30 each i say that that much profit is a sick way to get money take bill gates windows xp over £100 i don't now how he can sleep at night

y r games so expensive when cds r 10p to make each but new games are £30 each i say that that much profit is a sick way to get money take bill gates windows xp over £100 i don't now how he can sleep at night

OK.

A game is £30.
Take off the cut for the retailer (the biggest cut) for their shelving costs, staff costs, and obligatory profit margin.

the game is £20.
Take off packaging and shipping to the retailer and profit for courier service.

the game is £15.
Take off development costs, purchasing of software, and hardware, and actual labour costs for coding, developing and testing.

the game is £2.

This £2 goes as profit for the game developers, and surely they seserve some, right?

I don't mind paying £30 to £40 for a game just so long as its worth it. Games like Operation flashpoint and Medal of Honout are well worth that amount of money. If you are so hung up on the price of games, why not wait until they go on budget for around £10 and even sometimes as low as £5?

but if u insected on games at £30 each it will take at least a year to go down in prices but also think about microsoft xp £100 now that is sick i mean 3 games r better than xp

all u need 4 shops are computers with live in a world run by computers people r no longer needed

You also need an operating system to run these games and unfortunately most games are coded to run on MS Win X (that's either 95, 98, Me, 2k or XP) then you still need to buy the operating system.

Unfortunately this is the way of the world at the moment and there's little you or I or anyone else can do about it.

ye i mean who in this small world is annoyed about billy i think he is an over paid stupid geek who woundn't no a good game or software if it came and said "HALO" to him

Jive wrote:
> You also need an operating system to run these games and unfortunately
> most games are coded to run on MS Win X (that's either 95, 98, Me, 2k
> or XP) then you still need to buy the operating system.
>
> Unfortunately this is the way of the world at the moment and there's
> little you or I or anyone else can do about it.

Operating systems weren't invented as a games platform.

some were in fact y would we have 3d cards if they worn't

3D cards are made so the manufactures can show off their new graphics capability. Games developers also use 3D cards to get the best out of their games. I hope you're not saying windows was made just to support 3D cards, windows was made to make navigating through software (not game software by the way) easier. like IB said, It wasn't made for games.