Don't think they understand the meaning of justifying. It has to be actually justified to begin with...they tried...they failed

You can try to excuse your actions but you don't determine justification. It isn't just simply because you say so

The Onion Headline: Man in-Charge Justifies Decision Made by Man in-Charge

Of course a CEO would justify to making more money.

Actually I'm all in favour of a price increase for games because Devs work hard and budgets are only increasing and games haven't gone up in decades. But Take 2 is the last Dev that should be championing it. Cut the MT crap out of you games if you're going to preach price increase.

again, 70 euros for a new game has been the norm for years. thats like 82 dollars id say.

but of course he would say that, its not like that GTA V has brought them millions in profit ha

I seriously hope people aren't going to stand for this shit, but who am I kidding...of course they will and the rest of the industry will see nothing wrong with it.
Every new generation comes with a new set of bs to deal with, last gen with the online pass, this gen was the microtransactions and live service (otherwise incomplete) games and next gen will be overpricing the hell out of everything because "Come on, producing these games at such high fidelity costs money.", meanwhile they come fresh out the oven incomplete and a buggy mess just waiting for the patch in hot fix.
I bet season passes will eventually be $39.99 standard.

70 for a incomplete game with beta features, no thanks.

Let's be honest they will also squeeze out more content for much more as a complete package.

And you're and idiot. Ya know what the sad thing is though? They're going to find some way to retaliate against gamers and pout over consumers not buying in the price hike. You're going to see more Digital Deluxe b.s. going on and they're going to Microtransaction the crap out of things and use digital items as they have where they should be including all of that as part of the game experience anyway. Case and point, Ghost of Tsushima, I love Sucker Punch. If there's something new, it comes along as a software update for everyone to enjoy. Sucker Punch says, "they paid their $60 for a game, so we're going to give them what they paid for." I love this. Sucker Punch does it right and they take care of their customers. Businesses are just greedy. It's tough times Take 2, people are losing work, they're getting laid off and locked away in their homes and they have to make do, and the one thing they can do to try and feel better about things or take their mind off of things and live in a different world, and you wanna just pick their pocket, huh? You have two or three different houses and your own private jet, and your complaining your games can't be $70 while people are losing their jobs and a 56 year-old woman is living in a van (I'm dead serious) and others have lost their homes and living in tiny overpriced cramped apartments. This guy's a greedy anti-consumer asshole.

Not happening not for that yearly dribble anyway

If all of their games are going to have microtansactions or any other form of money grubbing bs, then I don't think their games should be $70. I might be willing to pay $70 more, if most of these companies weren't trying to make all of their games come with some kind of live service trash.

To be fair, he's actually right. NES games in 1990 cost $50. That's $99 today. N64 games cost $70 in 1998, that's $111 today. We actually are in the cheapest time, right now, for the cost of games, as that $60 price point we've had for a few generations now is worth less and less compared to older game prices.

Source: https://www.ign.com/article...

In my opinion the problem with these sports games is that they have too much content wrapped up in a single package. I don't want to pay $70 for the $20 worth of content that I will actually use.

and i can justify waiting for a price drop similar to what I do now.

What a bad joke, they are the first or the second to put that price tag for a game, here in Canada the price is extremely ridiculous, I will no longer support Take Two with my money since that they must use golden toilet paper already.

why wouldn't he justify it?

I figured this was already inferred since, y'know, they're pushing out the price.

As for my justification on games prices, I'll be waiting for a hefty price drop on a lot of games, just to vote with my wallet.

I damn well don't want to hear some justification for $80 games in the generation after next. I mean the N64 pulled that on cartridges but eventually dropped down to $49.99.

I can barely justify to myself to spend $60 on a game let alone $70 , don't get me wrong I'd spend 80-100 on a game if I knew I was getting a complete package but as this gen has taught me nothings ever complete on release .

In Italy/Europe is going ot be 80 euros ....

If gamers don't buy the game then yes $60 for games will remain

Take- Two is an anagram of "greedy corporate cash sucking scum" I'm sure, as a company who can't even be bothered to churn out a new game and just update the textures for a 10 year old game instead, says it all doesn't it

He's gonna find out that all that justifying leads to fewer sales. Just sayin

This is why all digital sucks, if there was no used game market you'd be stuck paying 70$ for this garbage

At the rate at which they are monetizing these AAA games, most people will move to free to play and indie games because the greed of these publishers is on another level. IDK how they can justify a $70 price while still maintaining a virtual currency/loot box type monetization structure in their games. I also fear that next gen games will be designed in a way where the enjoyment of a game you paid full price for will be hindered because they want to entice you to buy micro transactions as we have seen from some of Ubisoft's recent titles.

I gotta see the product.

... yeah so why did you build another krusty crab right next to the first one? Money!

I remember N64 games being $70. Interesting that $60 has been the gold standard for this long. I think Genesis/SNES games were $50 new?

I have no problem paying $70 for a game that will provide me with 50+ hours of gameplay, games such as Fallout, Skyrim, Dark Souls, and countless others.

If its a game I will play for 6 hours and never touch again, then no, piss off.

That being said, it isn't like the money is going to fund a better game. We know this because they keep paying everybody less.

Erhm nope! Not buying it, but the suckers will LMFAO

So he can milk more money from consumers. Living large is expensive.

Meanwhile Nintendo fanboys are content paying $60 anyday, everyday even for games that came out at the beginning of the generation.

while games are released incomplete and in a bug ridden state which needs patch after patch, with micro transaction, loot crates or whatever you want to call the crap extras, no game should cost anywhere near £70 ($70)...

I think they should have a pay system where AAA games go up to $70 until they reach a certain level of sales at which point the price drops to $60 and people who paid $70 get a credit for a future game. Games have been $60 for 15 years which is unrealistic. They are getting more expensive to make so prices have to go up.

Justification: gotta pay for this suit and my salary.

There is no justification when microtransactions runs rampant.

I wonder if in the long run this will be bad for business because I know that I personally will be buying a lot less games. Not even because I don’t want to...I just don’t make enough to justify it.

It might sound like he's in charge but it only sounds that way, We, are the ones in charge.

so what's it gonna be?

Just don't f@$king buy it. Show these greedy pricks and hurt their pocket books.

$140 games in New Zealand now... Damn. I'll have to be even more selective about what games I buy day one. Demon's Souls should not be that price, considering its just a better looking PS3 game.

They can charge whatever they'd like! I'm still gonna buy it at 19.99.

Zelnick and his wife were at an ultra luxury resort I worked at a few months ago and I got to experience how he really is IRL. They were disrespectful as all hell. Constantly wanted stuff changed to accommodate them. They really loved flaunting how much better and more successful they were than "the help." Fuck him and the moneygrubbing way that people like him and Andrew Wilson run publishers.

I need my multi million bonus so i need to rip people off ehhh C.E.O = 💩💩💩
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Of all the companies to justify this...sorry, you're not it. Your PoS yearly MT-fest sports games that are normally just rehashes of sports games from previous years aren't worth $60USD.

Sony is just been greedy they are doing simple math 10 x 8million on sales 80 million extra on lastofus3 in 5 years.
Like 500 millions for those first 8 millions wasn't enough lol f it.

And now thy downgrading spiderman mm horizon 2 and. Most likely GOWII will also come to ps4 to make more money. After theh saw how amazing their exclusives are making really good for the first time.

They are becoming greedy and forgetting why they are selling is because they weren't been greedy and f$&@&s like now

At this point i don't even care i miss pre-ordering ps5 will i still get it? Most likely but will wait fr games to hit the 15 20 mark because they been greedy I'm be cheap.

because they are trying to squeeze money out the consumer.

Other publishers are keeping the same price point, so you can take your justification and ill pick it up from the bargain bin

More incentive for me to enjoy the used game market and major price drops before purchasing any title.

What a time to raise prices...

Sony published games will cost $70 as well.
I mean $70 for a remaster (Demon’s Souls) is anti-consumer, isn't it?

Are we raging, yet?

are we really supposed to listen to some twat in a suit drinking his 300$ latte ? fuck you asshole nobody will ever pay 70 for a game especially one littered with micro transactions and pay to win scheme. what a pathetic greedy piece of garbage

Do gamers think games are gonna be $60 forever? Hell milk is still the same milk but it costs more than it did last year.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

yep. they confirmed early that the crude humor the games are famous for is leaving to be more inclusive for the woke. and the rumors about the new online could make or break them.

$100 game incoming, or the most likely scenario is they will just follow Nintendo going for $80 for the base game

Can't believe anyone thinks it'll be over 70. They want as many people on it as they can to sell shark cards. The only way that happens is if they have a $100 deluxe edition with 3 days early access. Which would probably be smart for them because it'd fly off the shelves