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"Over priced games? Go Here!"

You think video games are overpriced? Go here! I have signed it, lets just hope it works.

http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/

'Urgh', boycotting trains is completely different from boycotting products. Think about it. If Timesplitters 2 was released at one point in that week, and Splinter Cell, everyone would buy those two games straight after the boycot. The sales will remain the same, just uneven.

Urgh, When people boycott trains for one day, they go on it the day after don't they? Its an organised boycott, If people took part sales figures would drop for that week causing companys to rethink the price of selling a game.

I cannot afford a game every month, like i say im not exaclty loaded at this current moment in time.

Exactly. People will immediately start buying games again, or, just to go against authority, buy games in that week anyway. I sincerely doubt this will have any effect on the companies.

This is a load of pants.

If nobody bought a game from the 1st to the 8th of December, there would just be huge sales on the 9th of December. Fact is people are still going to buy the games they wanted, whether it's a week later or not.

I never said Nintendo did not have a business side. I never said they loved their customers like hippies. And relatively, N64 games were just as expensive as PSOne games.

All I said was, the GameCube was the cheapest console on the market (because Nintendo can, not necessarily because they have to), and so are the games. So as far as I know, Nintendo are pricing games fairly.

If there is a price drop, then I won't say no. But the point I'm getting across is that Nintendo are a very hard working company, who's primary objective is to make great games (and good money), so I will not be boycotting them.

If it was just EA, on the other hand...

Yeah.

Games are way to much money i think at the moment, £40-£45 is quite alot of cash to shell out for one Xbox game. Im not exactly the richest guy in the world, i can only roughly afford 1 game every 2-3 months and thats in theoretical terms!

I am getting a paper round soon which is earning me £60-£70 a month, yes I will then be able to afford at least 1 game a month, but if the price was reduced to roughly £20 i would be able to buy the games i want on release!

Like Sav said Nitendo are'nt customer hugging hippies.....

Nintendo DID over price last generation, and that's why Sony are now market leaders, not Nintendo.

Nintendo almost owned the market after the Nes and Snes.
But, they got complacent, treated third parties badly, marketed their console badly, and lost their market leader place as a result.

This time round, they have been by far the best when it comes to prices.
Although they are selling the cheapest, they have the smallest losses because they designed the console to be cheap to manufacture, while MS have blown a fortune selotaping the most expensive parts around into a big black box (hence they're making a HUGE loss on sales...).

Anyway, at the moment, Xbox games are generally £5 more than Gamecube games.
But that matters little.

Both companies are ripping us off when it compares to their American prices.
And THAT is what Fairplay is all about.

As far as I know Nintendo games are generally MORE expensive than other console manufacturers. Compare the prices of Playstation and N64 games when they were the platforms of the moment. N64 titles were always close to £40. This is mainly because Nintendo take a larger chunk of the sales. This means that publishers need to up the prices so they earn enough to recover the money they paid developers. So, far from being the "company that is nice to its customers" it is more responsible for expensive games than any one else!

Mav you really need to be a bit more realistic mate, Nintendo aren't the customer hugging hippies of the console world.

Like Microsoft and Sony, they have a business mind and they lost a lot of ground to Sony in recent years. If the GC is to be successful, they have to make it cheaper than the other 2 because the console itself has less features so it needs to make itself more attractive in other ways - hence the lower pricing.

Nintendo aren't regarded as the be all and end all of videogames - unless a kid asks for a specific console, a parent will look at all 3 as having games to keep the kids busy and will then want to know which is better. If a GC is the same price as an X-Box or PS2, why would they shell out the cash for a GC when they can buy a console that plays DVD's, etc ?

At the end of the day, Nintendo put the low price tags out because to compete, they have to. I certainly don't remember Nintendo caring about us too much price wise in the consoles before the GC while it was still pretty dominant.

The N64 was the one that really brought them down, not just because of Sony doing things very well, but Nintendo just priced themselves out of sales.

Mav, Nintendo charge us nearly twice as much as the Americans.

All fairplay want to do is to make the prices more or less the same on both sides of the Atlantic, to make it fair, or so to speak.