How much from the game sales go to the dev? Because my understanding is the publisher already paid the devs and marketing, the sales go back to the publisher and recoup costs and generate profit. So, I guess if game sales slump, they’re going to have to raise them even higher to help “support the devs”. It’s speculated that the reason for this drop is the price increase for the latest PS5 games.” “In total, 264.2 million PlayStation games, both digital and physical, were sold in 2022, which is a drop of 39 million from the previous year. It’s already reported that this $70 price hike has actually lowered overall sales of games: Hollywood is sinking and pay their actors multi-millions and more than the movies are actually pulling in, what should they do, raise ticket prices to $50 and blu-rays to $100? The publishers are the ones who pay the devs and guess what? They make more than 90% of the people on here using that defense. People are massively full of sh*t when they use the “support the devs” argument. When is it ok to show displeasure in raising the prices of a game, when they’re $100 or $200 for a standard edition? You want to support the devs? Buy copious amounts of microtransactions then. How much from the price hike goes back to the developers? I keep hearing “people don’t want to support the developers,” and people can f*ck right off with that. "We would like to review the prices of titles that we believe are commensurate with price increases, while also keeping an eye on market conditions." “In the global marketplace, AAA game titles for console have been sold at $59.99 for many years, but titles sold at $69.99 have appeared in the last year," Sega said in a newly translated transcript of the company's April earnings (via VGC). So, Zelda was the first game they developed where the cost was greater? Then you have publishers like Sega saying they’re keeping an eye on the market to see if they can raise just their AAA games to $70. next-gen development thing, but then you have a heavily Last-gen system picking and choosing one of its most popular games to be $70 while everything else is $60. I remember seeing the last-gen version of the same game $60. You just demand.ĭon't take any of this personally, I am not talking about you I want to give you an example of how it looks from a developer/publisher perspective when people silo themselves off into polar arguments.Ĭan you show me? I only ask because I see one game cost $70 for console and the same game cost $60 on PC. You are basically saying that you DO NOT support the industry and you DO NOT support developers. Imagine you live in a world where the cost of living and inflation rise but you are not allowed to make any more money than 10 years ago because some fanboys don't understand that your costs have increased like theirs. Can we take a moment and thank WB for paying for the higher capacity cards. Its not greed and its not a next gen tax. Game costs went up because the cost to make them has increased. So just naturally, you would expect costs to go up. And on top of that they are using the higher capacity cards for Zelda and now Mortal Kombat which along with the Witcher 3 only makes those three titles as far as I know of. Their costs have gone up just as much as everyone else's. I disagree with the idea that Nintendo can't charge $70 for their games.
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