Isnt that precisely why no is winning?
People simply wont buy them at launch. So the answer to the question would naturally be no for a majority of people. If there were a third option I'd have likely voted for it.
Yes
No
Only if I absolutely cant wait for a sale.
Most of the time i could wait.
The retailer you buy from would probably appreciate the 70 dollar price tag considering wholesale game prices are something like 52 dollars a copy.
People want physical retail but don't want to pay for it.
There has to be a balance, again, the US has escaped inflation with games for almost 20 years, well, the roosters have come home to roost. I'm not saying I want too, but it's clear for a reason, especially since wages are going up, that we can afford 70 dollars. I was 17 when I bought my Xbox 360 Elite, I was working for 5.35/hr and managed to buy a console worth 500 bucks and bought games that were 60. Now, kids are making anywhere from 12-17 an hour for their first jobs, the consoles will be be between 400-500 dollars and games 70, the increase i game prices would be roughly 10 dollars more after taxes so it's not like the kids who will make up most of their audiences won't be able to jump in for the console.
70 bucks will happen, it's just a matter of you choose to accept it or not.
NOPE. 60 in the past used to be justified with packaging and logistics, and theyt were making bank on it.
Now its 60 and digital, plus no sharing. Hiring celebrities is your choice, not mine. They ate selling for 60 and ceo are still laughing their way to the bank and try every way to cut content into many many pieces.
The only game that justifies a 70 is Witcher 4 and future Divinity titles.
This is such a weird argument considering we've been using celebrities since the PS1 Era. Rise of Honor anyone? Apocalypse starrring Bruce Willie? What about SSX tricky where the entire cast of a characters for a snowboarding game was entirely voice acotrs like Lucy Liu, David Arquette and Freddy Prince Jr which whom btw at the time were all 100% A-List actors in their prime for the game? Voice acting is a one and done thing, no one makes serious money off it and I doubt any celebrity game companies hire are remotely more than anything a film company like A24 would pay them to star in one of their films.