Topic: Future PS4 and 720 owners give this a look....

[son_the_vampire]

its a scary thought but it seems it may eventually come to this... better start saving now!!!http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/150425-why-we-should-be-thankful-for-70-ps4-and-xbox-720-games

[Abnormal Freak]

Know how I'll be fightin' the good fight against $70 games? (And currently do so with $60 ones.)

By not buying any.

[VladCT]

AAA budget isn't the only budget option available, people. There's also crowdfunding, but that's only if you have a loyal and loving fanbase, and managed to pull the right strings. Lab Zero (Skullgirls' current developer), for example, managed to obtain quite a bit more than they were going for, partly by enticing the MLP fandom that was somewhat recently made sore by Hasbro C&D'ing a certain fighting fangame by offering developers of said fangame (who was then joined by Lauren Faust herself to revive the game by creating an original setting altogether) their engine for free, which would normally cost $100k for licensing IIRC, if their Indiegogo campaign reaches $725k.
So yeah, fund smarter, not harder.
That is, unless you managed to wrong the fanbase one time too many. Then you can go bankrupt for all I care.

[Kale]

Yea... but THQ was starting to come back I think. They just needed a little more time, I thought.

I think they also changed CEO, but it was too late.

[KaZudra]

If Nobody bought your shitty game that costs millions to make, don't charge more nor blame piracy. Just make them better or cheaper or quit making video games
I'm tired of Developers trying to make every excuse for their own faults.

If the game is good, it will sell, if not, it will have devoted buyers nontheless which grows over time
If the game is Legitimately bad, no one will buy it.

[DragonSlayr81]

If Nobody bought your shitty game that costs millions to make, don't charge more nor blame piracy. Just make them better or cheaper or quit making video games
I'm tired of Developers trying to make every excuse for their own faults.

If the game is good, it will sell, if not, it will have devoted buyers nontheless which grows over time
If the game is Legitimately bad, no one will buy it.

I think that is a valid point. I always hear developers whining about piracy hurting the game industry, and I don't doubt that piracy has an effect(small, but still effect) on game earnings, but I also believe the main reason why games aren't selling is just, maybe, they are shitty games that just aren't appealing. I always see these developers bitching about why people aren't buying their games, and why, at launch, they aren't doing as "well" as they hoped. I always say this to myself, "Well, maybe if you stop SUCKING, then people would buy your games!". I mean, seriously, DEVELOP GOOD GAMES if you want people to shell out the millions. It seems like, as of late, a lot of developers are trying the same old tricks on the same old crowds and a lot of people just ain't buying it like they used to. Normal logic would conclude that maybe, just maybe, it was time to change things up a bit. Bring in some new ideas or variety to test the waters and get people interested. But, we live in an age of kneepads, where everybody's afraid of taking chances, and they'd rather go down with the ship of a overplayed trend than swim to new possiblities.

I, for one, don't look forward to $70 games. I'm still iffy regarding PS4. As of now, the most I'm willing to tread via "next gen" is Wii U(which everybody knows, isn't MUCH "next gen", but that's the point, as these asshats aren't really selling me so far that their "new way" is the best way).

[TheouAegis]

I'm a pirate. Arrgh!

But I bought used games for the PS2 from GameStop. I bought used and new games for my Japanese Saturn from eBay (full Shining Force III, Slayers Royale, Sakura Taisen sets baby! Yeah!). I bought my DS games used, have one I got from my brother new for Christmas but haven't played (Fossil Fighters... meh. Not interested and why he bought it for me is beyond me. Maybe he wasted his money, we'll see some day. The christmas before that though he got me Starfox 64 so he's batting .500.), and all my 3DS games I've bought new. (Traded in Lego Lord of the Rings for $12 after I beat it, spent that money on Fire Emblem.) So even pirates will pay for games. I even intend to buy the DS GeGeGe No Kitarou game if I can ever find it (since DS games aren't region-locked and you can play a Japanese game on the US 3DS, I heard).

[Lelygax]

Wii U games doesnt cost that. Guess what will happen AGAIN? If Nintendo doesnt wanted to continue this bullshit about region-locking it would make even more sucess.

[DragonSlayr81]

Wii U games doesnt cost that. Guess what will happen AGAIN? If Nintendo doesnt wanted to continue this bullshit about region-locking it would make even more sucess.

Wii U would be the best, to me, but even Nintendo makes dumbass choices. What's with these companies and their idiotic choices they make. They are like the real life equivalent of stock horror movie characters, always wanting to make every stupid choice in the book that leads to their inevitable death. Don't they just fuckin' KNOW that if they choose the RIGHT choices, we'll LOVE them for it and toss tons of money their way? Seriously, these's asshats got the mentality of lemmings.

[Lelygax]

Seriously, these's asshats got the mentality of lemmings.

Exactly, Lemming go left and right. These companies do things in the "right and wrong" order. XD

[Ratty]

I love the last line of the article

When market saturation is reached with franchises like Call of Duty, the only way to expand is by charging more.

Yeah you could do that or um, MAKE GAMES IN GENRES/STYLES THAT AREN'T SATURATED? But no, that would just be crazy. Clearly the answer when people stop wanting something is to charge them more for the thing they don't want.

[Dark Nemesis]

It doesn't bother me, since i want get any new generation console.....

[A-Yty]

This is great news. These stacks of money were getting bothersome to store in my shack.

[KaZudra]

It's all cool in my book, I mean, I have a High end PC, Which in trade PS4 games are 90% chance to be ported to to similar format and on top of that, an exclusive market is slowly dying out, my future in gaming is secure.

[son_the_vampire]

agreed... wont be long before mario and kratos and master chief have their own brawl... haha