Ubisoft warns against 'horrifically high' game prices

[symbal]

I'd just like to hear Infinity Ward complain prices not high enough after charging more than anyone else at £55 and breaking every sales record with MW2, a normal business would have the option to drop price for next version, but no i'm betting next november they try to push £60

[PoorKingz]

So how much will PS4 games cost? $80 per game? The more advanced the graphics and game engines become, the more it cost to make them. Eventually, the game market is going to crash because the development cost will be too high.

Of course there may be ways to avoid this. Perhaps game engines that are so advanced, that it can be reused for most games, rather then developers having to program their own.

[gamesquest1]

im pretty sure ubisoft do this with there own games, but why not brach out a bit, get some relevent advertising in games to lower production cost.....i know this will then create a swarm of over advertising but why not for example just do simple stuff that arnt bombarding gamers with full screen ads which they cant skip like having coca cola adverts on bus stops, which developers can update through xbox live or ps3 online service so they can maximise revenue im sure advertises would love to get a bit of the millions of gamers attention and what better way to do it than having it not shoved down there neck but placed into a game that in turn makes the game look more real and enables game developers to secure money towards development before even developing

[kaferenza]

They honestly think $60 US for a game is reasonable? Maybe for a game such as Fallout 3 where you can sink a good 100+ hours into. With your average game though, no way in hell. I know a lot of money goes into things like marketing, which for the industry strikes me as almost pointless (with exception of the Wii due to the demographic), but actual development costs just can't be THAT expensive can they? A large portion of games simply license the engine such as HAVOK. Just port/license the Crysis engine for a while while working on a better one, that should save some cash. I have to agree with most everyone on here though. I'll take good ol fashion games where the focus was on things like gameplay and storyline and not on being able to see things like the sweat running down a Soldier's butt-crack.