yeah the second gaming crash is unavoidable now https://bsky.app/profile/thegamebusiness.com/post/3llwflvydkc2j
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"Games need to get more expensive. We’re selling games for the same price we were selling them 10 years ago, but our costs keep going up [and] publisher costs are going up. Bold move [to go to] £75, but it does need to happen.”
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The only prediction I see *somewhat* happening is Circana's
But only IF Nintendo doesn't rise the price in response to the Taiwan tariffs (which unfortunately I could see happening × ×)
it was a news item of contention when Activision went to £55 in 7th gen! That pushed the average up from £40-45 to 45-60! Then Sony did 70 and now this!
35$, 50$ for a special edition
Was entirely expecting it to be 70+ dollars.
But yeah, I feel like the response to "wow the budget on this game is insane." might need to be "stop spending so much on making it."
you can't blame that on customers, GTA6 didn't need to cost two billion dollars and counting. Concord cost $400m. This is your management's fault