Well this year looks like we are going to head for some real hard times and no one is going to escape from them.
Game Companies are being hit hard as well as the next job. I just had my 5th friend tell me he got layed off at his job and most of my friends are also trying to get a job but no one is offering, not even McDonalds. This really saddens me because now they can't even afford their XBL... So, what does this mean? means that not only they can't afford to buy semi-important stuff, like food, milk, toilet paper, but more importantly... they cant buy GAMES! Jesus Christ wtf... Take their food and water but don't take their games... That's the only thing that can keep us sane.
Well anyways, since we are hitting this depression as bad and horrible as a Dragonball movie review, Game companies should see the next coming wave. Yea you guys might say "BS Panchito" but its the truth, and the truth is that download games and iphone games are going to overtake the Xbox and PS3 in main game sales, (Wii idk, too many kids and old people buying them so it don't count). The little hefty price tag of 60$ is to damn big, how come we did so well since the era of the Super Nintendo days with the price tag of $50 for like the past 15 years, now with the next gen consoles, games are $60 and production is much less??
I just bought Street Fighter 4, and for sure I know I am going to have fun, but I am sure Capcom is going to start releasing downloadable add-on characters for like $2-$20... (im looking at you Evil-Ryu and evil-Akuma) Just like Soul Caliber did. I think this is total BS if it does happen and I dont like this sort of pocket raping when we have a recession. If they do it for .99 cents, then its not that bad, but you know very well they rape us in download content.
Apple is about to start releasing prime games in their app store along with a controller add on so you can have your a & b buttons. PSP and DS are looking every day more attractive since you will have to be always on the move looking for a job or working in your house trying to make some sort of income. So I can see a bunch of people making the switch from hardcore $60 games for the cheaper download games.
So back to the topic, 60$ games, you guys gonna have to go back to $50 and make damn sure you pack it with everything you have, cuz if you keep releasing half assed games then charging more than the game on download content, im gonna have to take off my pants, sh*t on your game and post it all over youtube as a "thank you" message for consideration.
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And have you seen the sales of digital games?
I don't think any PSN or XBL game has cracked a million in sales. Shit, companies get excited when they sell 100,000 copies of a digital title.
So, yeah, Bullshit, Panchito.
That's what they used to do in the 16-bit era. SFII came out on the SNES, was a hit at $60, then a little later they put out SFII:Hyper Fighting that included 4 new characters, that cost another $60, then Super SFII came out with an added 4 new characters, and that cost another $60.
I love the good old days as much as the next guy, but that was one part of the good old days I could do without.
Sales in a recession, will just mean more sales than usual, but overall I think game prices will stay the same.
If anything, it's possible more gamers will spend more money, because we actually want to save on entertainment. Think of it this way. To go out with friends, to dine or to go to a night club etc, cost more than a game does. With us all cutting back, you'd do such activities less and stay home or at a friends place for gaming sessions more. The value for money of games over other forms of entertainment kicks in, to the point that even a Blackbuster/Net Flix rental is also cheap enough, even if you can't afford to buy a game fully.
I'm out of work at the moment, so i know first hand that we have to entertain ourselves as much as we can, as cheap as we can, to ride out this storm to better days. SFIV and RE5 are my main purchases, until Batman in the summer. Anything else is cheap pre-owned stuff.
I think things were much worse back in the 20th century.
Cart prices kept prices high (thanks for that Nintendo. Thats why PS1 took over, because developers and publishers were tired of Nintendo stinging them. How ironic how things have happened.