Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Only 3 games have been 70 dollars from PlayStation btw
Message to those whining about $70 Sony games
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ill_will82
What you see, is what you get
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Go look at Sony’s 10Ks and 10Qs. They’re making money hand over fist. Much of the money they make on games aren’t even from them selling their own games it’s from digital sales of extra items on PSN and their cut of 3rd party games. Translation they’re raising the price because they can not because they need to.
The people here defending this have probably never looked at anything on Sony’s investor relations page. They are simply defending a company they Stan as they always do. To them because they like the product that company is above criticism.
These types of exploitative pricing practices only hit their most loyal customers. Demon’s Souls is somehow $50 right now. Used to be $70. So yeah when I see shyt like that it gives me pause to pay more for a game out of the gate. For the most part I’ll just let the Stans and impulsive buyers pay extra and wait knowing in several months I will get it for less once it’s sold through to them.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Meh everyones gonna happily pay 70 dollars for gta or the next 2k so making this a big bad sony issue is short sighted
PlayStation 5 sales are hot, but Sony’s profit powerhouse is services
Sony is making more money off add on content for games than they make off selling all the games both physical and digital combined. That's the business model now. Selling games is just a gateway to making the real money. Back in the day before DLC selling games was how they made money. It isn't anymore.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
So what about the other publishers charging 70 dollars?
Is that really your argument? Somebody else did it so it's ok? If you're going to ask that then I'll ask what about Microsoft and Nintendo who aren't charging $70?
Like I said Sony is above criticism for some of you. You'll always come back to how to defend what they do. Many of yall showed your true colors when Sony went from "we believe in generations" to the PS4 gamers will get games that were supposed to only be for the newer generation.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Its simply an industry standard being imposed you keep focusing on sony and its missing the bigger picture
You’re intent on making this a console war thing and I’m not even looking at it from that angle
Deep_Black_Conscious
Superstar
I don't like 70 either but if they have next gen gameplay and graphics like Rift Apart, I don't mind paying 70 for now as long as it remains consistent like 60 did.
spliz
SplizThaDon
Read my other post in this thread. Get back to me.
Expect Sony is the only hardware maker doing this. Nintendo not Microsoft their direct competition haven't raised the prices of their games. Third party publishers have to give hardware manufacturers a chunk of their game sales just to have games on Sony's platform. Even still I'd argue third party publishers don't need to do this either because they excessively monetize their games with crap like loot boxes and other micro transactions. Companies like Activision make drastically more on DLC and add on content than they do selling games. Hell Ubisoft is exploring going almost completely free to play in the future because it's likely more lucrative for them to give games away and overcharge on DLC and microtransactions.
These are the same companies that in 4 or so months the game is selling for 30% less than the new retail price.
Not interested in running out and paying 16.5% over the old retail price off some hype culture pricing when they're more than ok selling the game for way less as they show when several months pass and they drastically cut the price.
The pricing of games is just another way this industry exploits their customers. The same way they build gambling mechanics into their rated for everyone games and lure children to spend their parents money off credit cards and or lure gambling addicts into spending loads of money from their addiction off predatory practices and nobody in the industry says jack shyt.
Pointing at third party publishers like they're some bastion of light ain't it man.
Champion
#RxLife #UCF #FAMU
Cringe.
The Wolf Among You
Superstar
Imagine thinking returnal is a 70 dollar game
I don’t like this narrative, and I’ve been seeing it a lot lately. Worth is subjective, but why isn’t Returnal a $70 game?
To save you time, if Returnal was $60 his post would've still been made.
The Wolf Among You
Superstar
I know. I assume he’s saying it’s overpriced because of the genre, and it being a PlayStation exclusive, but I still wanna see his answer.