Is 59.99 the new general standard for new games today on steam and everwhwere else?

[Fallen]

Everytime I see a new game for 59.99 on steam I laugh. I fall down laughing when they want 80 for a new game with extras,

are consoles games 60 now? it's been years since I bought a console game and they were never EVER over 49.99.

so 60 is standard now? people will actually pay it? Just curious, thanks.
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-Ghost

[supertrooper225]

$59.99 has been the standard for console games since around 2006. Yes, it is the standard. Considering how unstable the economy has been...it is a miracle they haven't gone higher.

And yes, people have been paying it for a decade. They have been paying it for a couple of years now for PC too. $50 games have been going out of the window for some time now.

[Zένø™ 👌]

are you new to gaming?When i started gaming in 2003 the 60€ where standard

[Hextravert]

It's been years since you bought a console game.

It's not surprising that things have become more expensive.

There may or may not be a fancy word for that phenomenon.

Publicado originalmente por rathole:

Everytime I see a new game for 59.99 on steam I laugh. I fall down laughing when they want 80 for a new game with extras,

are consoles games 60 now? it's been years since I bought a console game and they were never EVER over 49.99.

so 60 is standard now? people will actually pay it? Just curious, thanks.
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-Ghost

[76561198108327066]

I've paid close to $380 on Star Wars; The Old REpublic alone. It's a subscription MMO. There are people who've spent thousands on free2play cash shop games. I'm not such a person.

One mobile game I played, there was a rumor that a guild leader spent 400,000 dollars equipping his guild with gold alliance gifts and misc ingame swag; he was a software owner. Crazy stuff

[chibilibi]

Yes, $59.99 is the standard now. You know why?

Triple-A game development is stupidly expensive nowadays. Making hyper-realistic graphics takes an insane amount of money for what overall ends up being diminishing returns.

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

In 1993 it was $40 USD, so add 22 years of inflation and see what you get.

Games should cost $80 now, be thankful they don't.

[gargamell999]

i got my first home computer PC back in 1985 a ATARI ST 520, new games for it wer $50. atari, IBM, microsoft, games for them on the store shelfs, have always been 40 to 60 $$$. games did not really get 5 dollar cheep untill they went down loadable from on-line stores like steam.

[C4Warr10r]

Publicado originalmente por chibilibi:

Yes, $59.99 is the standard now. You know why?

Triple-A game development is stupidly expensive nowadays. Making hyper-realistic graphics takes an insane amount of money for what overall ends up being diminishing returns.

This is true but you also have to factor inflation. Cumulative rate of inflation since games retailed for $39.99 has been about 35% in the US and higher elsewhere. That's most of the increase in one fell swoop.

[chibilibi]

Publicado originalmente por C4Warr10r:

Publicado originalmente por chibilibi:

Yes, $59.99 is the standard now. You know why?

Triple-A game development is stupidly expensive nowadays. Making hyper-realistic graphics takes an insane amount of money for what overall ends up being diminishing returns.

This is true but you also have to factor inflation. Cumulative rate of inflation since games retailed for $39.99 has been about 35% in the US and higher elsewhere. That's most of the increase in one fell swoop.

That's also true, but according to TabrisDarkPeace games should actually be $80. I suppose Triple-A development costing so much is why it takes a hell of a lot more $60 copies sold to make a profit rather than why games are $60.

[Price of Amber]

I think $50-60 is a good price for consoles. Definitely not PC

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

Many AAA console games in Australia cost $80 to $115.

Same game on PC with better graphics costs $60 or so.

[Soulwatcher]

Well thats just it games are $60 and then they try and sell you a subscription for $40+. So if you want the full game your talking about $100+ for the game. And there are a ton of people that buy the subscriptions.

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

I wasn't referring to subscription games as in Australia there aren't any.

Games have to be sold at cost and free to keep playing in Oz. ;-)

[The Rock God]

I saw an ad for a quater pounder for $3.99, and started laughing. Are people really charging $4 for one, and $5 for one with all the fixin's? It's been a long time since I bought one, but they were never EVER more than $.99. Is $4 standard now? People really pay that?

[chibilibi]

Publicado originalmente por The Rock God:

I saw an ad for a quater pounder for $3.99, and started laughing. Are people really charging $4 for one, and $5 for one with all the fixin's? It's been a long time since I bought one, but they were never EVER more than $.99. Is $4 standard now? People really pay that?

It's probably inflation doing its thing.