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What i'm shocked to see is the price of PS2 games in Britain, they are over £30 and over for every game i see.
It's strange as i expected DVD's to cost cheaper than Nintendo's cartridges. I ever wonder how much it would be over here without all the VAT and taxes they have to pay to get it shipped over here.
I'm curious how do they pick out prices of the games they decide to bring over here, you see n64 for over £40 in a normal retail shop and then you see it online for £30.
I think the way they put a price tag on games is the way the retailers and online stores think about the overall price recommended for the game, sometimes stores disagree with the price and they really drop the price to make it an attractive price for people to really want to splash the money for it.
The way they are able to pick out a price for themselves i sometimes think are they allowed to do that. Because if the retailers pick them out freely the company will make less money and looking at the state of gaming they will go bankrupt but what would be nice is a fair price tag on games which i can afford more frequently and with developers using more CD's and DVD's to put data into it should be much more cheaper than it is supposed to do.
I know how cheap PC games are, but with a pirate market and the price PC games are sold the developers are actually losing money more than earning it and with poor game sales will they bother making games for the PC?
Yes PC's are getting more advanced in displaying good graphics but they are more unreliable than consoles.
It's strange as i expected DVD's to cost cheaper than Nintendo's cartridges. I ever wonder how much it would be over here without all the VAT and taxes they have to pay to get it shipped over here.
I'm curious how do they pick out prices of the games they decide to bring over here, you see n64 for over £40 in a normal retail shop and then you see it online for £30.
I think the way they put a price tag on games is the way the retailers and online stores think about the overall price recommended for the game, sometimes stores disagree with the price and they really drop the price to make it an attractive price for people to really want to splash the money for it.
The way they are able to pick out a price for themselves i sometimes think are they allowed to do that. Because if the retailers pick them out freely the company will make less money and looking at the state of gaming they will go bankrupt but what would be nice is a fair price tag on games which i can afford more frequently and with developers using more CD's and DVD's to put data into it should be much more cheaper than it is supposed to do.
I know how cheap PC games are, but with a pirate market and the price PC games are sold the developers are actually losing money more than earning it and with poor game sales will they bother making games for the PC?
Yes PC's are getting more advanced in displaying good graphics but they are more unreliable than consoles.
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The Game wrote:
> retailers go with the RRP. The Reccommended Retail Price, this makes
> them a lot of money!
Except with PC Games... where the RRP is generally around the same amount as console titles... but most games sell for around 29.99
> adults spend about £50 on
> shoppping don't they and so really buying a game isn't that
> expensive but for little Johnny who gets £5 a week, IF HE'S
> LUCKY' has trouble buying a top PS2 game every month with £20
I see what your sdaying... but 50 quid is still a sizable amount of cash, although admitadly I do walk into a shop with the choice of buying a game every time, as opposed to when I was young, and saving, begging and bnorrowing were required to gain a title...
> Game prices have pretty much stayed the
> same, I mean the only reason games were a 'rip-fff' back in the days
> was because you had graphically ill games like JetPac topping the
> charts!!!
When JetPac was at the top of the charts full price games cost 5.99
> retailers go with the RRP. The Reccommended Retail Price, this makes
> them a lot of money!
Except with PC Games... where the RRP is generally around the same amount as console titles... but most games sell for around 29.99
> adults spend about £50 on
> shoppping don't they and so really buying a game isn't that
> expensive but for little Johnny who gets £5 a week, IF HE'S
> LUCKY' has trouble buying a top PS2 game every month with £20
I see what your sdaying... but 50 quid is still a sizable amount of cash, although admitadly I do walk into a shop with the choice of buying a game every time, as opposed to when I was young, and saving, begging and bnorrowing were required to gain a title...
> Game prices have pretty much stayed the
> same, I mean the only reason games were a 'rip-fff' back in the days
> was because you had graphically ill games like JetPac topping the
> charts!!!
When JetPac was at the top of the charts full price games cost 5.99
There are two types of prices, High Street and Internet. You may find Internet Prices in shops!!!!! or shop prices on the internet....:o(. Either way you can tell the difference, most retailers go with the RRP. The Reccommended Retail Price, this makes them a lot of money! But back to the point the prices of games aren't too bad, the only reason they seem so bad is because it is mainly children that buy them, adults spend about £50 on shoppping don't they and so really buying a game isn't that expensive but for little Johnny who gets £5 a week, IF HE'S LUCKY' has trouble buying a top PS2 game every month with £20 minus sweeite money...ha ha ha. So really it is all on the same scale it is just that adults can afford games and children can't, to the same extent anyway. Game prices have pretty much stayed the same, I mean the only reason games were a 'rip-fff' back in the days was because you had graphically ill games like JetPac topping the charts!!! But now with 128-BIT processing power if Sony knocked on your door with JetPac, (Very Unlikely - Rare Game) you would probably knock them.....OUT! So thinking in the present old games were a rip-ff but only because they didn't even associate polygons with computer games! So in my opinion, which is probably a long and boring one, games are and always have done sold at reasonable prices. But that is my opinion, but with the crazy world we live in now people might even pay more for the original JetPac than they would for MGS2 or Conker on the day of release! It's funny old world!
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If you go to a lot of American sites... the games tend not to be thatmuch cheaper... generally if you hunt around a bit you can find the same price, if not cheaper over here...
I dont know I mean they pay around $50 - $60 + TAX for PS2 games there, so top of the range doesnt make much difference. However there budget games are cheaper, and the Americans get better games on budget first, Crash 3 was $20 in America for 1 1/2 years before it droped from £40 - £20 over here!
Its worth checking what budget games the Americans have, as it usually means the price will eventually drop over here!
Its worth checking what budget games the Americans have, as it usually means the price will eventually drop over here!
SNIPER wrote:
> you see n64 for over £40 in a normal retail shop and then you
> see it online for £30.
I've noticed the Larger shops tend to force people in the UK to use thier UK web store, not the far cheaper US store.... however other (European, Australiasian, etc) countries, despite having their own Web Stores are able to shop via the US store
I
> know how cheap PC games are, but with a pirate market and the price
> PC games are sold the developers are actually losing money more than
The PC pirate market, compaired the the PS1's pirate market, in its heyday, is pratically non-exisitant...
> earning it and with poor game sales will they bother making games
> for the PC?
Yes PC's are getting more advanced in displaying good
> graphics but they are more unreliable than consoles.
I was reading an interview some developer was giving in a mag a month or two ago, and they were saying that...
PC's are far better machines to develop for than consoles, primarily due to their universally familiar architecture...
The worldwide market for PC games is enourmous, and due to the market expectations its easier to get new, novel, interesting ideas out for PC games that are almost impossible to do for consoles....
> you see n64 for over £40 in a normal retail shop and then you
> see it online for £30.
I've noticed the Larger shops tend to force people in the UK to use thier UK web store, not the far cheaper US store.... however other (European, Australiasian, etc) countries, despite having their own Web Stores are able to shop via the US store
I
> know how cheap PC games are, but with a pirate market and the price
> PC games are sold the developers are actually losing money more than
The PC pirate market, compaired the the PS1's pirate market, in its heyday, is pratically non-exisitant...
> earning it and with poor game sales will they bother making games
> for the PC?
Yes PC's are getting more advanced in displaying good
> graphics but they are more unreliable than consoles.
I was reading an interview some developer was giving in a mag a month or two ago, and they were saying that...
PC's are far better machines to develop for than consoles, primarily due to their universally familiar architecture...
The worldwide market for PC games is enourmous, and due to the market expectations its easier to get new, novel, interesting ideas out for PC games that are almost impossible to do for consoles....
True but they are cheaper abroad.
There are alot of Budget games for the PS1 now, although your point is taken the top games still cost £30.
The cost of PS2 games is frankly silly, most of them are on Cds not DVDs, and cost no more than there PS1 counterparts to make! To add insult to injury, most of the games are sequels to PS1 games or PC ports... £40 is too much to pay, £30 for the top original games would be reasonable with sequels at £25 and budget games at £20!
The cost of PS2 games is frankly silly, most of them are on Cds not DVDs, and cost no more than there PS1 counterparts to make! To add insult to injury, most of the games are sequels to PS1 games or PC ports... £40 is too much to pay, £30 for the top original games would be reasonable with sequels at £25 and budget games at £20!
I think the PS2 software price is high, but not necessarily unreasonable. I certainly thing that £39.99 should be the absolute maximum, and then only for AAA titles.
Most PS2 software is around £39.99 in the high street stores, which is actually cheaper than the £44.99 that PS1 titles cost when the PS1 was first launched. There are exceptions to this, though - mostly the EA titles, which are around £45.
One thing that has surprised me is that the price of PS1 games hasn't been reduced. Admittedly a similar amount of development time goes into the PS1 software, but I just would have expected PS1 software prices to have dropped a little - say to around the £25 mark.
Most PS2 software is around £39.99 in the high street stores, which is actually cheaper than the £44.99 that PS1 titles cost when the PS1 was first launched. There are exceptions to this, though - mostly the EA titles, which are around £45.
One thing that has surprised me is that the price of PS1 games hasn't been reduced. Admittedly a similar amount of development time goes into the PS1 software, but I just would have expected PS1 software prices to have dropped a little - say to around the £25 mark.
I think games were overpriced 10 to 15 years ago, but now they don't seem to be quite so bad.
Mind you, you'll need memory cards for pretty much every game, so that bumps up the cost.
And yes SNIPER, Players Choice titles, and platinum titles do make gaming that little bit cheaper!
Mind you, you'll need memory cards for pretty much every game, so that bumps up the cost.
And yes SNIPER, Players Choice titles, and platinum titles do make gaming that little bit cheaper!
Right the savior might be those players choice or mind classic game releases.
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