Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

I won't be paying $70 or even $60 for any video game. Because I live in Britain and pay for things in £'s...
These polls seriously need a £ and a € in the question area as well....

On one hand I can understand the production costs more and on that basis I would agree, however aren't games also selling better than it the past? This should balance out to some extent...but I'm speculating, I'd love to see an analysis taking both factors into account

Lord no! I’m not made of money 😂😂

Nope, games are usually half price a few months after their release so I'll wait. There are so many games to play while waiting !

@pip_muzz It's impossible to do that fairly here in the UK because there's no standardised price. Games on the PlayStation Store in the US are, generally, always $60. Here, they can range anywhere from £50 to £70. There's no way to do a fair poll when there's no standard price in the first place.

If they actually bring games out that aren't broken and last at least 40 hours minimum. Seen a lot of games this gen thst are graphically stunning but gameplay only 15-20 hours . E.g the order 1888. Infamous second son, ratchet and clank , heavy rain etc or having like vf5 where they bring dlc out for characters that should already be part of the game

No way in hell.

@LiamCroft Fair point and thanks for the reply. It's just off-putting to have to Google exchange rates and whatnot when answering the quiz. I didn't actually know the US had such standardised prices. Thanks for the info.
For reference, I'm not against paying slightly more for my video games, so long as I still see the value in what I'm paying for.

There will be a handful that I would buy at launch, but speaking as someone who currently buys 10 - 15 games on their day they release annually, I would certainly adjust my purchasing habits.

In an industry worth more than any other in the entertainment sector, and where CEO's and board members funnel tens of millions in bonuses and payouts to their offshore accounts to avoid tax, you will need to work harder to prove that these companies are struggling financially.

A discussion around indies and the so called 'AA' is fair enough, but if you think I will pay 70 quid for games from major publishers who already take the piss and who definitely will not stop with the microtransactions and lootboxes even after a price hike... Forget about it, I'll wait for them on sale.

I feel sad about it as I staunchly support companies I like by purchasing games on release, but just like every other company, they have gotten so greedy, they aren't happy with a profit, they want ALL THE MONEY.!!!

Serious question, are any of these major publishers losing money by making games? I see stories like this every couple of years but they always seem to brag about how much money they make. Ubisoft clearly recycle much of their work across their games for example, they certainly aren't making them from scratch.

Isn't this the same every generation? Assets for PS2 would have cost more than PS1, HD for PS3 more than PS2, they've also been making 4K games for 3 or 4 years by now as well

For reference the parent company of 2K who are behind the game that has increased in price for next gen made $333.837 million net income last year, probably not as poor as they'd like you to believe

I’d happily pay extra if they stopped announcing DLC before the game is even put. Give us the game with everything in it, dlc in a year etc. There are some games I’d happily pay large amounts to continue the story. The Witcher for example, at the time I got the whole game with DLC’s for £70 which is great value.

I live in canada and new releases are 79,99$ CAD, I know of course that exchange rates and money value must be taken into account, but still salaries and life costs are mostly on par with most USA cities. If the prices are going up I’ll probably have to pay 99$ for a standard edition game 😢😉

@Lovespuds exactly this!

@LiamCroft on the french Store, brand new games already cost 69.99€, it's almost 80$... :/

On Amazon it's usually more like 55€.

It can be understandable for a single-player game with no in-app purchase to be $70, I can't see any legit reason otherwise besides publishers greed.

Nah. Even $59.99 + tax is pushing it for me in most cases. I'll just wait for sales. PlayStation games tend to sink drastically in price after a few months anyway.

$70 is currently £55 which seems to be an average price for new games on PSN. Also bear in mind because the value of currency is changing all the time, if you ever bought a SNES or Mega Drive game for £50, that was the same as £100 nowadays.

Everytime I see the number 70 thrown around I remind myself I already pay 70 euros lol

Games haven't gone up in price since the PS3 and 360 launched. A raise to $70 is fine with me. Games are getting more expensive and time consuming to make and if a $10 increase gets us better games and better talent making them, then I'm for it. Accounting for inflation since the PS3 launched, it's basically the same amount of money anyway...

For a quality game I know I will enjoy then I will happily pay more. I always buy these games at launch as I want them to do well, only games I'm unsure of will I wait for a sale.

Nope. Im way too poor to be paying that much even for the ones I'd want to buy the most

Thankfully sales exist. They're the reason I have so many ps4 games to play. And why I only have like 5 switch games

Not a chance in hell

I'd probably pay more initially, but this generation has taught me that I'm better off waiting for a sale. My library is full of games that I haven't even played yet.

@carlos82 Yeah I completely agree.

Also dislike whenever companies tout how many people worked on it and for how many years, because they know it will be regurgitated by the media to make it sound like it was really expensive to make. But those numbers are always incredibly bloated. Ubi makes it sound like 1000 people worked on Assassin's Creed for 5 years. Even though at no point they at working that many people on it at the same time. And the average time spent on the game is far less. Most of those people were probably cheap hires in Asia to do prop design, because the industry is such a cheap skate. But no, we need to pay more, as they continue to evade taxes and hand out 6-7 figure bonuses to their CEOs.

/rant

And no, I wouldn't pay 70 for the average game. Most games are bargain bin prices after a couple of months anyway, so I can wait.

Also, here's another thing. Just keep the price up if you need more money. Don't drop it to 20 quid after 3 months if you're so desperate for money.

/rant (I promise this time)

Probably not. I'll wait for sales.

@kyleforrester87 haha, no I'm here to ask questions such as why everyone is going to bat for poor companies like EA who made over a billion dollars last year but suddenly can't afford to change a bunch of 20's to 21's in its sports games?

How does CD Project Red become the largest developer in Europe off the back of one game they couldn't afford to make?

How does Bobby Kotick manage to swim in his Scrooge McDuck tower and bathe in the blood of his former employees

(for legal reasons I do have to point out that I don't know for certain if Bobby has a tower)

I'd pay 60 Great British sterling pounds if it was a game that I really wanted. If I handed 70 dollars to a smelly bloke in Game he'd probably look at me as if I dissed his ginger beard or something.

I can wait for games to drop to below £45. There is no reason to pay more and I will wait for ANY game to drop to a point that I am happy to pay. Some games I am happy to pay closer to £45 and others, I may wait until they drop much lower.

Its even easier to wait for Single player games as it doesn't matter if you play it at launch or a few years later. Online games may be better close to launch because no one has an advantage of knowing the maps, knowing the power positions and best gear and being a much higher level. Also, if you wait too long, the lobbies could well be a lot lower with only the dedicated, hardcore players left.

With Back Compat and a large backlog, as well as hundreds of games I have added thanks to PS+/GwG, I will NOT be stuck with few games to play. I could buy a next gen console and not need to buy ANY games for a year or more. Some games will of course benefit from next gen hardware too so I could also take advantage of sales on older games and play them at enhanced performance.

Point is, I have many options without having to buy games at a 'ridiculously' inflated price. We already get 'penalised' on game prices because we choose to play on consoles instead of PC - as well as having to pay to play online too...

Nope. I'll rent and buy more used games. I will also get more games on PC.

I'll support Scarlet Nexus that is already listed at $59 on PS5.

If it was by "production cost" tied to some theory on how a game looks... all the RayTracing 4K PC games would be $70. And Nintendo Switch games would all be $49.

CD project, Firstparty titles it depends on the title. I never buy sport games anyway it depends om the company. No for EA, Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Ubisoft, 2K or any sport game anyway unless they drop the monetization. I dont even mind paying for a expansion if the main game is big enough but no to MT and lootboxes of any kind.

It’s sad that most gamers will let the industry get away with charging us $70.

Yes, as long as the game is worth it. Like ff7 remake, god of war, and other non-mtx games. And if I think the game isn’t worth $70 and I still want to play it, I can always wait for psn discount.

@johnny30 Lol You want every game to be at least 40 hours?

@Octane when you have a company making $1.8 billion yet laying off 8% of its workforce despite this, and paying its CEO $1.7 million salary and around $29 million in bonuses and extras at the same time. Then something is seriously wrong when they come out with the poverty bucket saying they can't afford to make games anymore

It’ll have to be the right games like Uncharted 5, the last of us 3, a new the order game, a new SOCOM game

@kyleforrester87 Thank you!!!! I remember paying £45 for new snes games in Woolworths in the early 90s and games have hardly increased in price since then.

@XFsWorld for £70. Defo.if its $70 thats a different story games already around that price. £55 in the uk

If it ends season passes and endless dlc packs, sure, otherwise, hell no.

i have never paid the RRP for a game on PS4, because i buy my games on disc and they are always less. i don't expect it to be different on PS5.

@kyleforrester87 oh don't get me wrong I'm not that bothered about the price, I've been buying digital games for a few years so generally spend more anyway. I've spent enough money on games I've barely played over the years in sales and such so spending a few extra quid on a game I know I will play doesn't bother me. Just let's not pretend that they can't afford to make them anymore.

Its like when some games had a more expensive version for early access, I don't agree with it but if I had that option on Ghost of Tsushima today, I suspect I'd have killed some Mongols by now 😂

Naughty Dog games, sure. Gendesign games too. Pretty much every work of art. Every generic title (99%) obviously not

Can we not have a pound conversion to for the UK 😆

@LiamCroft This is the reason why I'm hoping the UK doesn't get it's own price raise, since we've already been creeping up there with higher prices this gen already, with plenty of games already costing £60 digitally on all 3 consoles. I'm sure we'll be "treated" to one anyway.

Very rarely buy on release, even rarer to preorder.
Bit stingy so like to wait for the inevitable sales.
So the poll for me would be more like, "would you pay £25 for a game" which if it's a goodie then probably yes!

@XFsWorld If they game is high quality no day one patch as big as the main game and no lootboxes or MT why would i mind. So that excludes fighting/sports games. Fighting games because it has seasonpasses with half the roster locked behind a paywall and sports games because of the gambling the game should not be €55 because of that alone and #### 2K the most for that.

Last time I payed £60 for a game excluding swanky peripherals or special editions was during the SNES days. I was close on the N64 a couple of times but since pretty much since the PS1, games have been cheaper than those Nintendo days. I have enough to be going on with to wait for sales these days.

For god of war.syphon filter.crash bandicoot.ratchet and clank.a new infamous.evil within 3.dishonored 4.etc.word up son

On one hand, $70 isn't a tiny amount of money, but on the other hand, doesn't the price of almost everything else that costs money go up in price on an almost annual basis? Are we not lucky that games stayed $60 for as long as they have in the first place?

I've fully expected that $70 would be the cost for PS5 games for a long time. I have no issue paying that amount for new release, AAA games that I buy at launch. But I only buy a couple of games that way every year. Most of the time, I wait for the price to go down, and/or bundle games with B2G1 sales. So the $70 initial price doesn't/won't effect me all that often.

Definitely not!

I don't have a problem paying full price for brand new games, I'm not sure that I ever will though as there will always be a cheaper way of getting them from the PS store.

I can't remember the last time I paid full price for a game, with games going on sale so fast nowadays there is little reason to buy day one, especially with the back log I already have, I usually wait until games go down to roughly 50 percent off, which isn't hard to do as I rarely get excited for a new release anymore.

Some games are absolutely worth that much. Also seeing as how flat game prices have been in some cases for over 2 decades now, I'm honestly perplexed people are even upset by it.

If it's for the purpose of covering development costs then I wouldn't mind. I might be a few less games and go for the ones I'm fairly sure I'm going to love.

It's funny as there was a time when some games were more expensive then they are now (I remember some N64 games even being sold for £70), even without taking inflation into account. So, sure it'd be a hit but I wouldn't mind too much.

I can't see it going down very well though.

Definitely not, paid £50 for last of us 2 at launch and the previous full price game was fifa 19... did get £40 for last of us 2 on ebay when I finished it and I get value from fifa playing with friends but even then I only buy fifa full price every couple of years

Yes, I have no problem with the way things are going. You pay more for a game, but it keeps you entertained way longer. New games for Mega Drive / SNES were extortionately expensive. And forget about the the NEO GEO. Gamers today have it easy.

i do not understand the logic in this,especially third party games,i am not realy what you would call a "pc" gamer, since my laptop is pretty potato,but for two "console-gens(ps4 and ps3)",PC games, have always looked better,and played better then ther console counter part,but they where always either priced cheaper or the same as consoles(60 usd).

So what is the reason for the price hike next gen?games on pc, may probably, not look marginaly prettier on even play marginally better,so what justifies ,the pc price hike?,I see nothing that does,hence i do not see the justification of,ps5 price hike,since the pc version of the game should cost the same as the consoleversion.
But if we ,are talking about big ,budget games,that at least took 4-years to make, i would happly pay.

The only game on the PS4 I have bought on release date at full price is the last of us part 2.

All my other purchases have been 2nd hand a year after release where they have dropped to <£30. The playstation store is more expensive than the equivalent physical copy. Which is a joke when there’s no manufacturing costs.

If Sony / publishers want to charge £70 (including microtransactions!) then its time to see what Xbox offer.

The price I pay for a game would always depend on the game.
There saying NBA 2K21 will be £64.99 in the UK? I found it listed for £54.85 on Base.com.
Like I said, next gen prices will vary depending where you purchase it from

Absolutely. The price of games hasn't really increased over the years. Heck I remember paying $80 at retail for an N64 game. Development costs a lot and I'm not surprised they release DLC to help recoup the money.

I'm fine with a $70 price tag as a gamer in his 30's, but I guess I feel similar to Cory Barlog in that if it does happen, I would hope that it means their is less emphasis on monetization, especially the randomized, "loot-box" variety (I say that knowing monetization will not go away entirely given a lot of the big studios are public companies).

I pay 79.99 CAD already so bring on the price increase! I'll just wait longer for a sale.

Nope. Especially not until they stop looking like PS4 games. Plus there not gonna magically stop season passes and microtransactions just because games are 70 dollars.

@kyleforrester87
Hahaha, I would like to think I could exhibit more restraint than that to be honest. I would likely pick up some of the first party Sony stuff at RRP but would do my best to wait till most games were around 40-45 quid at least, which is what I pay currently....I think I paid 43 quid for Last of Us 2 and I am paying 45 quid for Tsushima, those prices seem more than reasonable to me.

I've learned from my mistakes and won't be preordering or buying games at launch. Unless the game is a multiplayer game, that I want, where I dont wanna be at a disadvantage. Singleplayer games, assassins creed tlou GoW etc, usually drop in price or release a "complete edition" with all dlc, sooner than later.

No way. The games industry loves to push this lie that games are £50 and blah blah intentionally leaving out the fact they're increasingly selling dlc, season passes, special editions etc.. CDPR proves you don't have to do that to be profitable so the industry can take a run and jump for trying to nickel and dime gamers even more than they already do.

@Kafkaesque didn't the witcher 3 have paid dlc?

@Kafkaesque But The Witcher 3 had a season pass and paid DLC, and so will Cyberpunk 2077?

Don’t think I’d pay anything over £50 for a PS5 game. Even then that’s more for a game I really want at launch date if not I can wait a few months to a year for it to come down in price no problem!

@LiamCroft but they were also complete games. The dlc they released were full blown expansions, which was pretty standard for games back in the day. Now they're all cutting content to sell back to gamers separate

@LiamCroft "Games on the PlayStation Store in the US are, generally, always $60. Here, they can range anywhere from £50 to £70. There's no way to do a fair poll when there's no standard price in the first place."

The very fact that those prices equate to $62 and over $86 is exactly why I don't think we should be facing a hike in the UK anyway.

I'm also not convinced on the whole "4K assets" front either. They've been producing those for years now, for PC, PS Pro, and XB1X. From what I've read in the past, they create 4K assets and then do more work to scale them down for the base systems. I believe they were also doing similar back in the later PS3 days.

The fact that next-gen systems will be much more 4K capable will surely mean that there's actually less work for them to do on that front, and so it should lower costs, not increase them.

So being canadian and already having to pay 79.99 for brand new games, this hopefully wont affect me. In the case that it does, I'm not longer buying games at full price its just going to be too much at that point.

@carlos82 I think someone from Sony said a few years ago that out of 10 games, 6 may not make or even lose money, but the other 4 cover the costs for all of them. So, yes, plenty of games, even good ones, don't make any money and the companies survive thanks to their other/stronger IPs.

@Kafkaesque Not all games have season passes or DLC.

I would pay $70 for very very few games day one. I pre-order most big titles, that will stop. When I am forces to wait for a lower price do I start waiting even longer for even more price cuts? My guess is YES!

They could add Steel book, themes, digital music track, cloth patehes etc. then I might except $70.

No, and I find it a bit rich with all the people in the journalism side of things saying they're fine with the price hike. They're not really allowed to have an opinion on this when they get given most of their games for free.

I remember when all the publishers swore that going digital would help bring prices down and make them cheaper on the whole. That worked out great for us gamers didn't it. The fact that a game like NBA2k20whatever is the one to come out all proud about the extra cost is frankly disgusting considering all the extra gambling nonsense they already have shoehorned in those games.

Let's face it, this price rise is pretty awful in the current climate, but it's not about there needing to be a rise. This is about the publishers knowing that fewer people will be able to afford games over the next few years, with or without the extra cost. They are raising the cost to squeeze extra cash from the people who will be able to keep up with the industry and afford new games.

Wow, sorry, went off on one a bit there. You can probably tell this whole thing annoys me quite a lot. I can afford it, but I won't pay £65 for a video game, ever. Honestly, over £50 for a video game is silly to me and I think I'm a pretty hardcore gamer.

A lot of corporate shills here.

I live in Canada, so I'm already paying 80 bucks plus tax which is 90 dollars.

If they jack the price upto 70 usd, it means I wont be buy games at release ever.

For the most part, no I would not be willing to pay the premium. Mainly because with most of my PS4 games, I never felt the need to pre-order the games. The only real exceptions I can think of are persona games. Otherwise only the odd game I will pay full price for.

You could argue that I am contributing to the problem as people with my mindset are why developers feel they can excuse microtransactions, but realistically, even if I did pay full price for all my games, I still think MTX would exist purely because companies know they can make money off of them.

I paid £65 for the Deluxe version of Ghost, thing is though i get a load of extra stuff for the price so the extra tenner doesn't bother me, if the price increase meant MTX would go away or being realistic not as bad as they are now then maybe i could be on board but lets face it MTX aren't here to fund games they are here because Publishers want all the money possible and more, this price increase is just them seeing how far they can push it because i can assure you the $60 plus all the paid DLC, MTX, Season Passes, multiple editions and sponsorships more then cover the cost of game making.

I'm already paying $90 right now (Canada), what's another 10$ 🤦🏾‍♂️

It really does depend on the game. I’m prepared to pay up to £55 for brand new AAA disc games. I’ve done this for just four since I got my PS4 in launch year but I’d never pay that amount for digital games - I’ll wait for the sales.

If prices do rise for PS5 gen games, I’ll just be a little more savvier with my purchases and be grateful I’ve got a large backlog!

Not a chance in hell will I ever pay $70 for a standard version of a game and if greedy publishers do decide to increase the prices of their games then I will just buy them used a few months later so they don’t see one cent of my money for the games I am interested in playing.

Publishers and developers playing on heartstrings stating that games cost too much money to make is bull crap. They still manage to make 100s of millions, some even billions in profit every year whilst paying their ceos millions in bonuses!

Now if the game is good value 40 hours plus, no micro transactions (including cosmetic) no paid dlc or season passes to fork out for content that should have been in the main game... you pay your $70 and you get ALL content, then maybe I would but this would never happen!

I've been expecting this price increase for a while, and the $69 price is reasonable in my opinion. Nobody likes paying more for things we want but all pricing is increasing across the board, our past time is just catching up.

£40-50, most games get a very large chunk of discount within weeks of launch on PSN, I imagine if you checked a lot of the big releases had some sort of discount before it was out for 2 months

I would not be happy if the 1st party studios of Sony and Microsoft charged more on release considering we're all likely to be spending over £400 (possibly 500) for a new games console. If it's the case that the consoles are expensive and the game prices go up i'm just going to hold on to my PS4 and wait for the prices to inevitably drop like they do

That would roughly translate to R$ 350.00 in Brazil, which is way too much for an entertainment product. The standard price here for a new game has been R$ 250.00 for a while, which is still too much, but I'm ok with it since I only purchase games with this price when they're must-haves from day 1.

Ohhh no sound like they are doing a nintendo full back for games.
And you know i the UK they won't change dollars to pounds so that will be £70 a game thats about $100.

@NomNom hell why not a extra $20 for Canadians 🤗

I'd gladly pay $70. I'm in Canada and I pay $80 so that'd be a drop I can live with.

There are only three series I'm willing to pay full price. It is Diablo, Xcom and Final Fantasy. I was used to buy Assassin's Creed also, but this series lost its soul and even Valhalla will wait for price drop. Diablo is heart thing (even if I had to find my way for Diablo3) and it is my day one "must have". Xcom (except Aftermath trilogy) is my lifetime companion since DOS UFO Enemy Unknown. And Final Fantasy was reason why I bought my first console. Other games worth of buying, while they are on sale. I'm trying to always buy gold or complete editions while I'm not fan of DLCs (never waste extra money for skins or premium items)

There would be no problem for me to buy full price game IF there is no tons of aditional (payed) content. If they stop selling rabbit in sack (season passes) and tons of dlc, but put everything together and say "here is whole game". 99% of my games, I've played only once and I'm satisfied completing them. I won't return to them just because it has new DLC, so I don't care if it has every half of year a new DLC. They should put it in game on release, sorry, next...

@Luna-Harmony all I will say is good luck to them, when most players don’t buy on launch and games don’t sell as well as expected , they will soon lower the prices of their games

I've only ever paid full price digital for Earth Defence Force 5 because I really wanted it after getting myself a ps4, then it went on sale the next day😠😡😤 I always wait for sales. I only buy a game 'full price' digital if it's p155 cheap like under £20, or is fun. I'll never pay 60+ quid for a game.

@Old-Red totally agree with you. Publishers are using the next gen consoles as a excuse to put prices up. I think they are in for a bit of a shock when their games don’t sell as well as expected at launch and prices will revert back to normal for their future games. I am planning on buying used or waiting for a big price drop in sales before I purchase any of the $70 titles.

ABSOLUTELY!!! As long as EVERY. Single game is last of us 3, last of us 4, last of us 5....Otherwise no; I’ll wait the 3 months.

Only for Cyber Punk 2077!

No because I only have £ or sometimes €

Sorry but I'm not willing to pay $70 for a game. They're expensive enough as it is. Literally the only exception I might make is if it's a game I've been looking forward to for a long time. And even then i wouldn't like the fact that I'd have to pay more for the privilege of playing on PS5. If you think about it, by bowing to these new prices, everyone is basically encouraging Sony(or whoever) to hike up the prices even more in the future, and I don't know about you guys, but I'd like the price of video games to stay relatively affordable.

@hayesdude @MrMetroid @NomNom @Jeevz @farore311 and all the other Canadians, buy digitally and save the tax. I pay the same as pretax amount on psn store and no tax added. 12$ or so cheaper each game.

Nope, too much for me 😔 I'll be waiting until they drop in price

I would but only in the odd occasion. I never purchase games at full price anymore unless I'm really looking forward to them (in the past year the only full price games I bought were TLOU2, Death Stranding and Re3)

So I'll have the same attiudue with ps5 games

Not likely. I find the increase laughable as many games end up not even being worth $60. Some games also make way more then their budget [NBA 2K for example] and still they want more. Few games if any are worth more than $60 [Witcher 3 being one].

No. I'm also disgusted by the fact that digital games cost the same. It's ridiculous that platform holders charge the same price as boxed games. Incredible greed.

I'll happily pay an extra $10 so Activision can post record profits followed by mass layoffs. Not one of these major publishers are losing money they're just worried the loot box bubble is about to burst.

I'm good.. I'll wait for deals and bundles I hardly ever pay full price for games.. AND shoes..jus throwing that in there..

Wonder how many people who claim they won't pay 70 dollars for a game would buy Mass Effect remastered day one? 😝

Facetiousness aside, if you get hundreds of hours of entertainment out of 70 dollars, then more power to you. I'd pay it for a game that offers me the corresponding value and I can resell if I choose to.

I wouldn't even spend $30. I can wait for the sale. i have hundreds of games I paid under $15 for. $70 is the sucker price.

I'd hate to be that guy who gets these day one and can only afford 1or 2 games a month and now has only 50 games in their collection.

@BusyOlf They dont make money off consoles they cost them money. 😆

I never buy pre-order or day one. I always wait for big psn sales. That's why I will get the digital only ps5.

And while people complain of paying $70 in 2020 for a PS5 game, I’m remembering how Earthworm Jim on the SNES cost the same price back in 1994 while Donkey Kong Country was $60, and then Chrono Trigger was $70 in 1995. According to inflation, it’s equivalent to paying $117 in 2020, so technically, value is down even if the price sticker seems higher...

I wouldn't pay that for any games with microtransactions, but any other game, sure.

@Flaming_Kaiser What makes you think if the price increases to $70 that there won’t be any Micro-transactions and season passes? They’re still going to raid our wallets.

@Flaming_Kaiser not true, the PS4 was a profit gain from the start.

With Season passes, DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, and battle passes now being a thing, we're already paying far more than $70.

Also, I don't see why consoles are getting a price hike, when PC games are constantly sold cheaper, yet have higher quality assets & settings available for high end builds that can run them. If console goes up, PC should as well. If not, I call bs.

Hell no, I understand devs gotta get paid, but here's the thing, let's say a game is 60$ on release and it happens to be a highly anticipated one, you realise it'll make at least 60million$ in pre-orders/day of sales?

Yes it's only 10$ per individual and your trying to tell me 70mill+ per game assuming at the very least one million copies of it sell, minus tax where I live that's still 63million$ even with shipping and retailers etc... And the fact more and more games are becoming download only.... Reducing costs even more.

If your trying to tell me 70million doesn't cover a single title it better be damn well made and be long as hell, grand theft auto v costed 265million $ to make and it made 1billion$ in three days...

So please give me a logical reason why we need to increase prices other than greed.

However admittedly if a game has high play value such as super smash Bros or breath of the wild meaning you can easily sink 70hours into it, I will gladly pay it, as I only buy games that I can get 1$-hour out of or more (:

I only pay full price for a few select games. I usually wait until they drop at least $20.

The way I look at it is that I generally buy the "Collector's/Limited editions" of most new games I buy. Simply because they usually come with a season pass, so that takes care of two or three $5-15 purchases over the next year of game life. So paying $70-80 isn't anything new to me, and if it does away with microtransactions later, that's just a bigger bonus.

I've said it before I'll say it again. If it's a new ip I'm interested in a continuing ip or a quality developer yep. Sports games or games with waffling reviews or iffy gameplay/story used or sale. The Order I bought new to support yeah the gameplay could've opened up more but that whole world screams rpg. Anthem I bought new I've been with Bioware since the beginning it bit me in the bum yes but hey I honestly enjoyed what was there. The last sports game I bought at full price was in 2014ish. I mostly do franchises and since they barely get touched why pay for dlc each year?

It's funny to read all the "never ever" for 70 USD prices. When you live in Europe, as I do, try to buy new PS games in Germany or Czech republic. Brand new titles cost around 80 USD in both countries, depending on the exchange rate and seller, rarely they drop somewhere around 70 USD. And those prices are here, if I remember it correctly, from PS3 era.

No I wait for sales I won't pay full price for a game that's either broken at launch and requires a patch the same size off he game or half that. And the on top had DLC that could easily be in the game or should be the in game and is then charged and extra £10 and they claim it costs more to make games yet how many pubs are out there and how many have shown fact about the propaganda crap.

Bobby Kotick got $33 million in a bonus this year for performance even though they laid off 800 workers and he hasnt done anything for the company. He gave that to a charity run by Activision, Take Twos Strauss Zelnick has publicly stated be wants MTs and LBs in every game they make.

Andrew Wilson of EA also wants this and half of the games they make are full of them via Ultimate Team. To me they get that so called £10 already via MTs and LBs they have done since PS3 so no I won't be paying that £70 not one bit.

Edit: Bare in mind that Activision filter there money through a company in Holland to avoid taxes, EA make £800 million annually through Ultimate Team. And yet still complain that it's not enough and they are struggling with gaming costs. UbiSoft have researched an algorithm that tries to get people to buy MTs and LBs through it's games as one person said on here below AC keeps shoving adverts to get him to buy them.

Activision with COD would now show you players loot boxes and what they would get hoping you would purchase such things.

Need I go on

@nessisonett Then that's why you wait for sales. I'm not made of money either but it is insane to expect the cost of something to stay the same for 30+ years. Of course it hasn't. Games do cost more they are just hiding it.

@Nakatomi_Uk THIS.

I completely understand inflation and that games dev has risen in cost significantly in the past 40 years, but games would be A metric ***** ton cheaper if these major Publishers CEOs weren't effing BILLIONAIRES. These guys are so rich they could NOT GET PAID FOR A YEAR and they wouldn't even notice! Literally!

Games industry is littered with the greediest POS slimeballs imaginable. They over work their employees, underpay them, then fire them so they can then receive yet another fat bonus they can NEVER SPEND.

CAPITALISM SUCKS. It ruins everything good.

@neon-xxiv I have known a friend from the 360 era in the UK and he NEVER paid as much as I or anyone else I knew in the states for new games. I know that the standard pricing is higher but it is MUCH easier to find new games at reduced price there.

@zedd117 Unfortunately it won't. Greed rules these companies. They will charge more upfront and continue to sell microtransactions and loot boxes and everything else they can think of to pay for those millions and millions of dollars that those greedy ***** in charge "must" be paid.

@SZRT_CIC_Ice PC games are sold cheaper because they don't have the console mark up. Console manufacturers charge more than Steam or any other PC platform.

PC still gets loot boxes and microtransactions tho. Why? Cause Bobby and Andrew need another 30 mil to go with their Billions.

@Neft There isn't another answer besides greed tho.

These games are expensive to make. Fact. What's more expensive? Far FAR more expensive? The pay of most of the publisher CEOs. The ENTIRE profits from a game is often not enough to pay the BONUS for Bobby "Satan" Kotick or Android Wilson. These companies do not exist to make games. They exist to make ONE person so rich they can't ever spend even half the money they have.

@Xiaolin I don't know about Uk prices, but Germany / Czech republic is my reality and the prices are really high in comparison to US... For example: standard edition TLOU2 in Germany is for 68 EUR (78 USD) / in Czech for 1.800 CZK (77 USD)... Of course, it depends on seller, but this example is more average than on high end. I can get TLOU2 for 72-82 USD, if I want to search and order it from some unknown eshop. But the truth is, continental Europe is used to higher prices for a long time.

Yes, but only after i have seen a review of the game that really says whether I should buy it or not.

And when I say review game, i mean a fair and impartial one, not one aimed at pleasing the developer of the game in an attempt to look good.

@Severian This does not match the facts. Yes the BASE price for a game is the same as it was for the FULL game years ago. Microtransaction, loot boxes, season passes, collectors edition and more have all driven the price of games WAY up.

The answer isn't inflation, it's greed. No CEO of a gaming co or publisher in the 80s was a BILLIONAIRE. We have several now.

I am essentially all digital now, and the only games I buy new anymore are some Nintendo games (since they rarely are discounted much digitally anyway) and titles by From Software; I otherwise wait for a sale. I have such a backlog that there is no reason to pay full price at release.

@BusyOlf Thats a first then i can believe that will be the same with the PS5.

@neon-xxiv Understood. But even at $60 USD I buy VERY rarely. There are sales so often and so highly discounted that I buy maybe 3 new games a year out of upwards of 30-40 total games. Though I will admit I've already hit that this year with FF VIIR, NIOH 2, and now GoT.

@BalsBigBrother not counting smaller budget titles, I'm at 3 with FFVIIR, NIOH 2, and Ghost. I'll prolly get CP 2077, and there are a couple other lesser know titles I'm interested in. So yeah been an expensive year.

@Xiaolin

Except there might be, depending on how many people they hire and how long production takes it might take long than a month to break even.

What if gaming starts costing as much as movies to make? If we don't have enough buyers it won't break anywhere close to even, theaters gross so much because EVERYONE watches movies I don't care who you are, unless your Amish you will watch a plethora of movies in your lifetime.

Where as some people never pick up a game in their life.

I kind of want to take a wait and see approach to see how long it take to actually make 4k assets, vs what devs are claiming and if they hire enough people I can see the reason for a 10$ raise.

Keep in mind again GTA V had a 265million dollar cost and iirc that was without 4k graphics

@Xiaolin If we talk about the Devil Kotick who are the other? Too be fair the games are long more polished, more graphical, bigger teams, voice actors. I think they should stop shipping games with day one patches bigger then the game but thats a few that do that. If its too bad i wont even buy it anyway.

You know what irritates me? Games are increasing in price, yet we still get DLC, season passes, pre order bonuses, buggy games with massive patches months after launch and, last but not least, MICROTRANSACTIONS! I can't even play assassins creed without the game begging me to pay money, because these companies have no self respect

@Neft The make enough of it back so i dont feel too sad for them and lets be massive transactions going up too €99 WTF are you ####### kidding me. Tax evasion and all the other ***** they pull dont feel sorry for them in the slightest.

@LiamCroft Come on the Witcher 3 was a massive game on its own and i would have bought it at €70 without a second thought.

@Xiaolin
Sounds like capitalism is working just fine. Some guy found a way to the top and now he's rich. And if you didn't buy it he'd have to lower the price but we keep buying so why not get rich? People wanted it enough to pay for it.

@XFsWorld You can vote with your wallet. First party titles are almost completely MT free and there a few massive classics third party games too. Lets look at the Last of Us 2 the polish is insane.

@Flaming_Kaiser if they don't profit, they can't pay everyone properly or themselves, also need to factor in program costs if they don't have their own private one which most usually do but there's the initial cost of that.

Designers and coders generally get paid per hour not per work load, so having a speedy designer can save you $ as well vs one fresh out of college or something that has quality product but takes 2-3x longer.

And last I checked it's around the 20-200$/hour range depending on skill, title, and ofc studio.

Businesses have to profit or they go under, lots of anime and game studios have failed because they couldn't even pay their own electric bill.

At one point in time even square enix almost closed its doors the original final fantasy game was a last game we ever make where the last of their funds were pumped into it, so it was supposed to be the first and last one, however it saved their asses and they kept the name for good luck.

You also have to factor in private contractors that get paid once they critique the game in it's unfinished tech demo/alpha stage and throw in any input they have to make their idea actually take with the audience in the US/Japan etc...

Let's say for some reason a game racks up a 10billion dollar price tag just to be made and published etc... Let's say it only makes 1 billion $ thats a loss of 9billion $.

If it doesn't profit it gets kicked to the side, why so you think monster Hunter doesn't have more Western releases?

It's because when they finally release one here it doesn't sell good enough and they lose money because people pirated it or got the Japanese copy or whatever so according to their analyst it isn't popular here despite it having an overwhelming fan base here

I think I have only bought 3 or 4 games full price over my 20+ years of PlayStation playing I normally wait a few months and get games off eBay or Amazon for cheap. I know that isn't helping the game companies but I really just can't afford to spend full price's on games.

@Powerpellet Im not a big fan of the US version seeping through Europe like these asses of investors making massive depths and killing of the companies like parasites.

Because I entered this generation quite late (bought a PS4 in April '17) I have benefited from many games being on sale of even free on PS Plus.

The only two games I have purchased Day One are Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Last of Us Part II. Looking ahead the only game I would buy as soon as it is released is Horizon Forbidden West. If it costs £50 or £70 so be it but I'll definitely pay it.

@Flaming_Kaiser oh right forgot also need to factor in voice actors and royalties, God lots goes into it but so far not a single game has broke the 300million $ cost threshold

In the last 10 years, I’ve probably bought at launch 3 times. Other than that, it paid more than £20 for anything. I see no point when they drop so much in price.

Not a chance would I pay €70 or $70
I'm too old to be doing things like that. When I was younger I would have. The most I paid for a game was SF2 or SF2 turbo on SNES, I can't remember which one. They were impossible to get thanks to a fallout between Nintendo and Bandai who at the time were distributing Nintendo games in the UK. I bought a copy taken from the console pack for £70. That's a long long time ago. Now I try to buy games for €20 or less and I only buy new if I can.

@Xiaolin The truth, on the other hand, is that people here usually wait for discounts, because those prices are especially steep in comparison to average salary... In Czech rep, one new PS title in this price range can roughly eat 7 - 10% of average monthly salary. And that is awful lot. I'm just curious, if the proclaimed price increase will happen here too and we can therefore expect 90 USD games, or if we stay the same and "cheap" rest of the world will just catch up...

I've been paying €69,99 on the PlayStation store as well as the MS Store and eShop for a while now. I thought that price was becoming common already. I have to problem playing more for good AAA experiences seeing how much quality content these games offer nowadays. It's naive to think games will always be €60.

I already almost never pay full price, so $70 is just more reason not to. If you literally just wait a mere number of weeks, you begin to see it on sale. I have even taken to seeing a title and then determining what I think it might be on sale for at Black Friday. Almost every new Fall/Holiday game goes on sale that week in November. Every spring title ends up on the Summer Sale.

Plus I always have a gargantuan back log, so I see the new shiny title and respect it, and it will be mine one day, but later on sale.

@Xiaolin You make a good point--but it's already a bit different from mine. Yes, I was referring to BASE costs and relative value of what $70 then would be worth today, but if you include microtransactions, then games are more expensive these days because it's not just cartridge materials and packaging then. And regarding greed--this is NEVER absent in the equation.

What always gets me is that companies will charge the same price for digital or physical. Holding a PM job in the manufacturing segment, I know plastic costs money. Paper costs money. Disks cost money. Shipping costs money. Getting product stocked on store shelves costs money. Yet digital allows one to skip all that and only pay for the 1s and 0s in a digital store front.

I will not be naive and believe the EAs aren't clamoring for all digital one day. They are priming the pump with this pricing strategy. We grow accustomed to the same price as physical.

Alternatively, just wait a year or two and get the games for £20 or less. I'm happy to usually buy a FIFA or PES on day 1 because I know I'll get value for money, and I will pre-order Tony Hawk PS because I know I will love the regardless. Otherwise, no game makes me bothered enough (apart from maybe Rockstar) to want to buy it at £50-60.

@orionreplay You've also got to take into account that in the UK digital games are not governed by the government. They don't set a price or monitor it so pubs like EA can charge whatever they like but set it to slightly higher price because they have to take off the % to the platform holder Sony, Microsoft valve etc. Though Valve have just dropped its % that's why EA allowed it's games back on Steam just recently

@Flaming_Kaiser First party games isn’t the problem. 3rd Party Publishers like 2k and EA will continue to ***** customers wallets.
MT will not disappear no matter what, even if game prices went up $80.

@kyleforrester87 Movies cost 100s of millions to make, yet a blu-ray, dvd, or digital copy only costs $20. This is about greed NOT necessity.

Digital should be cheaper since there is no cost of mass creating discs. So why isn’t it? I was all digital for ps4; will be for the 5. Digital should be cheaper than physical. Shouldn’t it?

@pip_muzz our prices are not universally standardized, but most big releases launch at $60 for standard editions. Then we get deluxe editions for extra and the like but that’s optional so not going there.

Smaller titles, like, Uncharted Legacy, some AA games, and many remasters are likely to launch between $30 and $50, but must often than not $40.

Why would every not “rather pay $60 for PS5 games”? That’s a weird poll. The only logical answer is that we’d all prefer to pay less than $70. 🤷🏾‍♂️

I personally used to preorder a lot when Amazon offered Prime members a 20% discount. My backlog is huge, but sometimes I felt the discount was good enough, and I got amazon points on top.

Now, I just wait for a sale. Like I said, I have a huge backlog and honestly it got annoying that every time I sat to play a game I Pre-Ordered, it was already for sale for as low as $20, sometimes even with all DLC included or a definitive edition. At least in physical form.

I feel like increasing game prices will impact day one sales and only make game reviews that much more relevant in terms of which games people will buy at launch.

nice to see many people in the comments sharing the belief that game pricing is already high enough as it is. publishers will need to rethink their greedy strategy on this. there are two things to consider here:

1. just because the base price of games has not increased in the u.s. market in many years does not mean revenue for publishers has not increased or at least remained consistent. dlc and mtx has offset higher development costs without a doubt so it is baseless to say that game prices have not increased. also, in many markets outside of the u.s. pricing has increased on the base price, such as canada where games have been $80 for quite some time. somehow america is able to keep its dollar value higher through corruption but that is going to end before we know it and a market crash will ensue.

2. with digital distribution over the past 10 years, publishers have seen higher profit margins than in the years prior as a result of cost savings on software sold outside of traditional retailers (as a result of no packaging, shipping or retailer costs). these margins are only increasing as more and more sales occur digitally. yet again, this extra 10-15% margin is offestting the higher development costs these publishers claim is hurting their returns.

and yet, a game such as god of war can release on ps4 and feature ZERO dlc and mtx and go on to sell 10m copies. it is deemed a big success for sony and has undoubtably made them a ton of money. am i missing something here? it sounds like a critically successful game usually sells well and becomes a commercial success with the current pricing model. the only way publishers should be looking to increase margins is to scale back the scope of their game or be more efficicent with how they develop them. offestting higher costs to gamers (who already tolerate enough crap as it is) will only backfire.

I never pay more than £20 for games. Why would I?
The games industry has never been bigger and has never made more money. They know that x amount of customers will pay full price, then x amount will pay less a few weeks or months later. This is all factored in to their marketing strategies.
You don't need to pay full price now and you won't in the future either.

SNES games were often $70 and $80 back in the 90's.

@MarcG420 I pay digital on PS4, I only pay 79.99 $
It's beautiful
I'm going to buy a hard drive version for collectors editions

@XFsWorld Thats why i wait with those games then Ubisoft looks like a freemium game. 😆

@NomNom yeah me too probably

no for simple fact the on disc dlc micro transaction forced grind then microtransaction to skip it loot boxes etc etc. And fact EA activision 2k are paying chairmen 100s of millions plus in pay per year and making billions. Anyone defending them is a fffffffff moron.

@XFsWorld

Why not?

In these times where loading takes minutes not seconds and fps has not been taken into consideration across all games, there is no real reason to charge an excessive amount of money. Not to mention they usually get with these crazy editions at launch.

I would, because I love videogames so much. I'm already paying $70-80 because I collect steel books.

It'd be nice if that meant that developers could get paid better though. Games like The Last Of Us Part II are good enough to stand toe to toe with the biggest movies yet, the people working on it likely aren't getting paid well enough for how much work they're doing.

I always wait for sales unless it's a game I really want. I'd prefer games stay at $60 otherwise you'd be paying an extra $100 on 10 games.

@Flaming_Kaiser
Me neither.

They are pushing for a digital world where they are saving even more money and benefits them more and not to mention that they are gonna keep doing DLC, Season passes, micro transactions, broken games with millions of updates and patches, so obviously NO

In the UK I've noticed that our prices have gone from £49.99 ($63.08) for new AAA games to pre-ordering games at £54.99 ($69.39).
These aren't even PS5 or Series X games, they're PS4 games, like Cyberpunk or other major coming AAA full releases.

I usually wait for sales, may get Cyberpunk, but I'm considering waiting if it would send a message that customers think it's unreasonable.

If games sell many millions of units at £49.99/$59.99, then devs and publishers are making ample returns on their investments.
At higher prices they will likely end up dropping them in price sooner because sales numbers are going to plateau much sooner than if they just kept launch prices lower.

Heavens no. I would never pay that amount of money for a game.

Vince McMahons ring intro goes, how, again?

$70? That's what... £50? I don't think I have bought a game this generation at that price, and by the time I buy a PS5 (another year at least, for them to iron out any wrinkles), and hopefully the average price of PS5 games will have droppped a little.

Depends on the game really, but for the majority, I tend to rent them (UK) for about £10/month as most games I am interested in are single player, so a new game very month for £10. By the time any significant DLC/Expansion comes out, the game has come down in price so can pickup cheaper if interested

If I am rich then I still won't pay for it as well. On the sale is what I am after.

Negative greedy greedy to many crops are already taking advantage of there employees and take advantage of microtransactions. That's lame i love COD and 2k but they be over boarding the microtransactions. Them as be popping up on my email like you stream a movie from you ps and that ***** keep going to the next page lol . They should help us get external transactions patch on cod or GTA people we the people wont more instead of giving headaches

I'm so far backlogged it's beyond believe. I haven't bought a full priced game since fallout 4. I still buy around 2-3 games a month on sale even though I know deep down I'll never get through them. Not even going to talk about those PlayStation plus games back log. I subscribed to PlayStation Now hoping that would stop me buying games, it hasn't.

I would easily pay $70 for select titles like Soul Calibur, but for the most part, I am going to wait until the game prices drop to 75-80% off and/or are free. I don't have a probem with them attempting to charge significantly more for 'new' as the price continually drops to near nothing and nothing. Let the wealthy support the game companies and the rest of us who are patient wait. Some games that never drop below $20 never get bought (by me) like Tetris...

@Hungerjames No, it shouldn't. Digital is a better product. No disc to be scratched. No need to get up off of your ass and insert a disc to play games. The game shows up on your PS4 as a purchased title, etc...

No way! I always get games in sales or wait until the disc versions price drops after the initial entusiasm has waned. Lol.

Seriously though, that's £55; a lot of money for many people.

Interesting how folks will pay $20 to go see a 90 min movie but then complain about spending $60-$70 on interactive entertainment that sometimes provides countless hours of enjoyment. Even a 15 hr game at $60 is a great deal as long as the media delivers. However, these games need to work correctly! I will happily pay $60-$70 for a higly anticipated AAA as long as it delivers on its promise. Unfortunately, we have seen several shortfalls in the industry which only instills hesitation in the purchaser. Video games are a pretty important part of my entertainment in life so i dont mind paying as long as it keeps me playing till the end!

The vast majority of games I buy are less than $20. I'm patient. I did pay $200 for the Doom Eternal collector's edition, though, and I paid $105 for an Ion Fury big box and a Switch copy. I paid $105 on a pre-order of the Wrath: Aeon of Ruin big box.

Most games these days are full of woke garbage, though, and I have negative interest in that. I've bought a few AAA games that push fringe, cringe lefty identitarianism this gen, learned my lesson. A game needs to check out from several of my sources before I drop cash on it, so I've stopped pre-ordering and most games don't pass my muster.

In an alternate universe where games aren't pushing politics and identitarianism on me, I'd be willing to pay $80 for new games. Not now, though, no way in hell. Also the PS5 needs full local back-compat before I get one, I feel burned by the PS4.

Why not you already pay 60 to a 100 for some games for the ps4 whats the difference

@Neft Isnt 200 plus million enough not every company is a platform holder or sold his Soul to the Devil like Bobby Kotick. 😆

@Neft I loved MHW i hated the older ones dated game design, terrible controls look i love classic games buy i would never want too go back too the classic controls of RE1/2/3. Thats why i really liked 4 the controls and it was still freaky. But if games get too expensive they can do three things make them smaller or more expensive or cram the #### full of MT. People can complain all the want but if its costs more then it gathers whats the use. Then again if i hear about stupid ***** like shrinking genetails on a horse they could also dont do stupid nonsense that nobody cares about. 😆

@AJDarkstar But nothing will change when everything goes digital. Prices will remain the same.

@Powerpellet Ah yes the ever present defender of the rich. You guys always forget that it's NEVER gonna be you, they always break the LAW to get where they are, they abuse their employees, they don't pay their taxes, and they are using addiction tactics to make not only more money than they need but so much money it's causing problems for the WHOLE industry. So yeah sure you keep trying to hold their water and see where it gets you.

@amyjojj7405 The difference is that the money we are paying now isn't going to the people who created these games, who are often quite over worked, it is largely going to a handful of ridiculously over paid CEOs. What makes you think that a $10 price hike in the base price will be the only place they do that? They are already so greedy it's destructive. They don't care about us or even the industry as a whole. They will burn everything down around them to make another dollar and not give a *****.

@__jamiie No prices will increase. Kotick et al will make sure of that. These guys can't ever have enough money. They could have ALL the money and they would still be trying to have more.

@Neft Dude you think movies regularly cost more than $245 Million dollars?? AAA Games have LONG cost MORE than most movies do.

4k assets are already a thing.

Games DO cost too much to make. But that's not OUR fault or problem that is a CHOICE the industry has made. This decision was made to "justify" the insane salaries and compensation that the CEOs get. "Well we spent a couple hundred mil on this game so of course we have to give me $30 million in bonuses, but yes definitely fire most of the people who actually made that game." - Bobby Kotick probably.

I hear you on them racking up the cost of everything but we still pay for it cause that is what we Want not need. Yes people will pay for it and they will make there money cause they know that is what people want and they will pay that price.I dont personal unless it is a game that I really like otherwise i wait for it to go on sale.

@Xiaolin 245 was a one off for games it's generally much much lower.

Most expensive movie - pirates of the Caribbean tides of war or whatever, 378.5million.

I do my research.

Even then though profit seems to cap out around 2.2billion.

@Xiaolin my point being it's in their best interest to keep their budget around 70-500million

Wouldn’t be happy about paying more and I would end up buying a lot less games around launch and more games in deep sales. Will be more picky on what I get for day 1. And if a game has microtransactions then it’s a big pass as I don’t want to waste good money on a game that’s made around spending more for “shortcuts” for what would have been normal if they didn’t exist.

I believe they're taking the piss on little bit as all the games I have come out of being broken Mess cyberpunk the new rust game that's a 2018 version hardly any content they wanted 40 for that ridiculous the new Battlefield would have only cost £60 on Xbox One but because I got an Xbox series X is costing me 80 bit of a joke since films are made with the sort of budgets and don't cost this much to buy the blu Ray something's gotta give and then not to mention all the cosmetics and all the micro transactions DLC e.t.c. Stop bringing out half-baked games and maybe I think about paying full price the fact it's so expensive kind of makes me more hesitant to buy cheaper games because I can't afford to make the mistake of buying a s*** game and it's like that's choking all the fun that you could have on mini games because you spent £80 on games that may not be finished if games were sold cheaper they would sell a hell of a lot more of them just because the game being sold cheap it doesn't mean the quality should be cheaper as well as as I said big-budget movie sell DVDs at 20