is 70 the new standard?

[HBEggspert]

I'm old, is 70$ the new standard for games? cause I don't feel the quality is there.
It's wild how games have increased in price, decreased in quality and then started calling standards features dlc, is the 70$ price tag the next step?

[Donaldo Trumpado]

Games have been $70 on PS5 for years. Yes. This is the new standard and I'm 100% fine with it

[HBEggspert]

Originally posted by Donaldo Trumpado:

Games have been $70 on PS5 for years. Yes. This is the new standard and I'm 100% fine with it

Cool that your fine with it? Chill on the hostility. I dont own a ps5 nor have i had a playstation since PSX.
I was just asking. Cities skyline 2 isn't launching at 70, so I wasn't sure if they were standardizing the 70$ in the triple a industry. The games I play havnt launched at 70. Bannerlord, factorio, even playstation ports didnt launch at 70.

[jerrypocalypse]

Becoming the new standard for some games yeah. I'm sure some will still price games at $60, it really just depends.on the publisher and game.

[Donaldo Trumpado]

Originally posted by HBAC:

Originally posted by Donaldo Trumpado:

Games have been $70 on PS5 for years. Yes. This is the new standard and I'm 100% fine with it

Cool that your fine with it? Chill on the hostility. I dont own a ps5 nor have i had a playstation since PSX.
I was just asking. Cities skyline 2 isn't launching at 70, so I wasn't sure if they were standardizing the 70$ in the triple a industry. The games I play havnt launched at 70. Bannerlord, factorio, even playstation ports didnt launch at 70.

Technically they can launch at whatever price they want. And given that the game has been sitting near the top of the steam best seller list shows that the market has no problem with the price

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by HBAC:

Originally posted by Donaldo Trumpado:

Games have been $70 on PS5 for years. Yes. This is the new standard and I'm 100% fine with it

Cool that your fine with it? Chill on the hostility. I dont own a ps5 nor have i had a playstation since PSX.
I was just asking. Cities skyline 2 isn't launching at 70, so I wasn't sure if they were standardizing the 70$ in the triple a industry. The games I play havnt launched at 70. Bannerlord, factorio, even playstation ports didnt launch at 70.

He was not being hostile. You overreacted.

And for some games, $70 will be normal. Inflation is real and effects everyone.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Al Abaster:

70 is the new 50.

70 is the new 60.
60 was the new 50.

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But yeah, OP. There's been like a dozen games in the since last fall that have launched at $70, across PC/XBox/PS5/Switch. CoD, Zelda, Diablo 4, Madden, FIFA, Dead Island 2, etc.

[Hyena]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by HBAC:

Cool that your fine with it? Chill on the hostility. I dont own a ps5 nor have i had a playstation since PSX.
I was just asking. Cities skyline 2 isn't launching at 70, so I wasn't sure if they were standardizing the 70$ in the triple a industry. The games I play havnt launched at 70. Bannerlord, factorio, even playstation ports didnt launch at 70.

He was not being hostile. You overreacted.

And for some games, $70 will be normal. Inflation is real and effects everyone.

Yeah games have been $50 for 30 years so we got lucky that inflation was sleeping all those years.

[kdodds]

Once upon a time, non-RPGs and RPGs were priced differently. I just recalled that the other day, when I had mentioned the price of the original Gunship by Microprose. I overstated it by $10 because I was mostly an RPG player at the time (Gold Box before they were Gold Box) and they were $10 more than other games. At the time, I was paying $50. This was early 80s, iirc. And game prices haven't gone up much since because of one thing, an exploding consumer base. Once Win95 rolled out, it was only a matter of time before the user base plateaud. And we're there. When your 84yo (since passed) dad is playing PC games, it's a fair bet you're not going to see much more market growth. Therefore, time for prices to increase.

Longabout way (but if you're as old as you say, maybe appreciated) of saying, yes, $70 is the new standard in AAA, at least for expansive games like RPGs. I'm sure we'll still see overlaps of $50 and $60, and even $30 and $40 for some indies, for quite some time. None of this bothers more reasonable aficionados because we know we're going to get hundreds of hours out of the game. Speaking for myself alone, probably over 2k hours. Whether that's 2.5¢ per hour at $50 or 3.5¢ per hour at $70 makes very little difference in terms of price to me. Compared to the $10 per hour I'd spend at the movies, games are still a huge bargain. Which also explains why I don't do movies in theater.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Hyena:

Yeah games have been $50 for 30 years so we got lucky that inflation was sleeping all those years.

Well, except when they increased to $60 for the PS3/PS4 generations.

[quintosh]

Prices cant stay the same every decade. The cost of developing these games goes up every year because of increased expenses like electricity, wages etc.

[dulany67]

It's been $60 forever. It was inevitable.

[ChuTheMan]

Originally posted by HBAC:

Originally posted by Donaldo Trumpado:

Games have been $70 on PS5 for years. Yes. This is the new standard and I'm 100% fine with it

Cool that your fine with it? Chill on the hostility. I dont own a ps5 nor have i had a playstation since PSX.
I was just asking. Cities skyline 2 isn't launching at 70, so I wasn't sure if they were standardizing the 70$ in the triple a industry. The games I play havnt launched at 70. Bannerlord, factorio, even playstation ports didnt launch at 70.

not all companies are gonna switch to 70 instantly, its happening over time, just like it did with the 50-60 jump.

also factorio is not a AAA title, ofc they would never have been 70, its not even 60.

[Soüp]

Yeah $70 is the new standard. I'm kinda surprised it didn't go up sooner to be honest, given ever-increasing game development budgets and the crazy amount of inflation over the past couple years. Price increases are never fun but it was inevitable.

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by HBAC:

I'm old, is 70$ the new standard for games? cause I don't feel the quality is there.

For major Triple A titles yeah. There are still a wide variety of good games that aren't that expensive. And these days, if an expensive title doesn't do well, wait 3-18 months and get it anywhere from 50-75% off.

Originally posted by HBAC:

It wild how games have increased in price, decreased in quality and then started calling standards features dlc

That's always been a thing though. You're not going to like every $70 game that comes out anymore than every $30 game that comes out.

[Quilnux]

Yes, $70 is the new standard now. The gaming industry never increased their prices during the last 4 wage hikes nor the last 3 economic hikes. So to be honest, they should actually be closer to $100 as standard. So $70 is a discount for us technically.

Putting it into perspective, When the gaming industry hiked the price from $50 to $60 the minimum wage was $5.15 in the US. It is now $7.25 after 4 wage hikes.

So if the gaming industry would have followed it's usual pattern pre-$60 per game, then they would have raised the price to $70 when minimum wage went from $5.15 to $5.85 and again to $80 when the minimum wage went from $5.85 to $6.10 and again to $90 when it went from $6.10 to $6.85 and once more to $100 when it went from $6.85 to $7.25.

So technically we are getting it $30 cheaper then it should be when buying at $70