Price of games now!

Tyler_Du

Go digital and buy from regions outside of the UK, can be much cheaper I got shadow of mordor (game of the year edition) recently for just over £10.

Ian_875

Tyler_Durden_UK wrote: »

Go digital and buy from regions outside of the UK, can be much cheaper I got shadow of mordor (game of the year edition) recently for just over £10.

Agreed, you've got a range of key sites. I'd stick to the more reputable ones though for PC games.

I got MGSV pre-order a week before it came out for £26. Steam were asking £60 if memory serves.

Also got a preorder in for Just Cause 3, again for around £25

Sheepster

No, no, no, don't pre-order games.

When the current generation consoles came out, the games seemed more expensive than last gen, but this only seemed to be because there were so few games (obviously). Same why such as CEX doesn't have loads of bargain bucket Xbone and PS4 games.............yet. The consoles are still too new to have loads of older now cheap games.

Either do as others have said - a big advantage to Xbone is the ability to purchase from other countries sites cheaper, or just wait until the game is out. Can near guarantee Tesco or Asda etc will have those games on a week special offer at £42 or similar. Games now seem to have come down to a sensible price on release - the same price abouts as the last generation sold for on release.

custardy

Sheepster wrote: »

No, no, no, don't pre-order games.

When the current generation consoles came out, the games seemed more expensive than last gen, but this only seemed to be because there were so few games (obviously). Same why such as CEX doesn't have loads of bargain bucket Xbone and PS4 games.............yet. The consoles are still too new to have loads of older now cheap games.

Either do as others have said - a big advantage to Xbone is the ability to purchase from other countries sites cheaper, or just wait until the game is out. Can near guarantee Tesco or Asda etc will have those games on a week special offer at £42 or similar. Games now seem to have come down to a sensible price on release - the same price abouts as the last generation sold for on release.

So over £10 more than I pre ordered Halo 5 for?

techno12

Aye it's a different world now re: scale and cost of making games.

A place I've worked at fairly recently has 100+full-time staff, and they take on 30 or 40 contractors for the last 6-9 months of the project. They write AAA 'platform exclusive' titles, and everyone in the studio works on the same title. I'd imagine the budgets are pretty big for those as they take 2 years to do.

Writing big games for the big consoles costs big bucks, unless you're one of the new breed of 'indie' devs.

I'm surprised AAA games are as cheap as they are to be honest, especially considering how much their equivalents cost back in the day (eg C64/Amiga titles were just as if not more expensive in real terms

Nilrem

techno12 wrote: »

I'm surprised AAA games are as cheap as they are to be honest, especially considering how much their equivalents cost back in the day (eg C64/Amiga titles were just as if not more expensive in real terms

I suspect a large part of the reason prices haven't gone up more is because these days they're selling (tens?) millions of copies, where back in the Amiga/BBC/Sinclair days it was a few thousand, or a couple of tens of thousands of copies for a big hit.
Now sales can easily hit a million in pre-orders and release day purchases.

I think one of the previous GTA games had something like 5 million copies in it's first week, and some have sold around 10 million or more.

Blackjack_Davy

uncreative wrote: »

So I excitedly looked at pre-ordering Fallout 4 and Assassins Creed Syndicate for Xbox1, 69.99 and 79.99. So thats £150 for 2 games...:eek: back in the day you could get a console for that!

Its lucky then I wont be buying SW Battlefront after playing the beta....

Then have some patience and the prices will tumble. At least on Steam. Alien Isolation -75% off in the sale less than a year after release.

The prices are premium because everyone wants it on launch day, once they've raked in the cash after benefiting from the herd mentality they'll drop their prices to hook in the stragglers. The longer you wait the more they'll fall.

Fallout 3 and NV I picked up for a few quid each years ago.

As for non-PC games, well you're paying for a hefty premium over and above the cost of the development cycle of the game in licensing costs to Microsoft/Sony etc. Which is why PC games are significantly cheaper to start with. Why do you think Halo 2+ has never been released for any platform other than Xbox? Because Microsoft makes more money that way.

PenguinJim

custardy wrote: »

So over £10 more than I pre ordered Halo 5 for?

And over twice as much as my GTAV pre-order!

But it's still good advice to not pre-order in general, as any game that comes out might be absolute garbage. £20 isn't a good pre-order price if the game is Aliens: Colonial Marines or Assassin's Creed III, for example!

Still, I'm not sure what the OP is talking about. They chose to get a more expensive gaming platform, and now they're complaining that the more expensive gaming platform they chose is... expensive? Well of course. If you're going to choose the second-most-expensive gaming platform with the third-best-quality games, then focus on the positive reasons you chose that platform.

Or, if it was a badly-researched purchase, cut your losses.

dontone

uncreative wrote: »

I remember when computer games were £1.99 on cassette.

I remember those days too, my friend. There used to be a shop called 'Micro Fun' in the Town Centre who used to have rows and rows of cassettes priced between £1.99 & £2.99, right up until the late '80's/early 90's.
I think the most I ever paid for a game in those days was about £3.99 (saved the pocket money up), and that was only because it wasn't a cassette, but a cartridge that went into the large port that was on the back of a Commodore 16.
I never saw a Spectrum or Commodore 16/64 game dearer than £4 (My Dad balked at £2.99 ).
It was only when the Amiga and SEGA games really game along that the prices sky rocketed. I remember paying £24.99 for Mortal Kombat a couple of years after it's release and was full of buyer remorse.
I still think that some of the prices today are ridiculous. Even DH waits until some of the big games have been out for a long time before he even considers buying them. It is rather expensive.

heartbreak_star

I remember ordering Street Fighter II - Turbo Edition with the collector's box and everything... £64!

Mum nearly fainted - it was my birthday present!

(And it still wasn't as playable as Knight Tyme...*sigh*)

HBS x