Depends on the game plus 60 isn't really high. Back in the snes days it was really high for a 32bit game. 80+ high

come to canada, you pay $70, have not bought a new game since killzone 2

I mean yes $60 a pop is unfortunate but afterall these developers have to make a profit. Say it cost $60,000,000 to produce the game. At $60 per sold game they would have to sell 1,000,000 copies to break even. Maybe that puts it into perspective for you.

Not to mention, $60M for a game isn't unheard of. Check out this from an older article back in 2007. Clearly since then, especially with the economy game production costs have gone up and games have gotten bigger and longer.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/...

"Survival game

Back in 1982, the Japanese company Namco produced Pacman for $100,000. Now, the average Playstation 3 title is estimated to cost $15m. "

Edit: LoL at a disagree on basic facts. Do the math. It's right...

At least PC games are $50 and drop in price fast.

thats why i always pirate my games ..

COME ON, video games in the US are CHEAP
how about paying 60+ EUR for a game

Pay $60 dollars?! I rarely ever do that. I always let the games get to 30-40 dollars before I ever consider purchasing anything. If I buy them at that price I can play many games rather than one or two. In some cases that wait is only 3 or so weeks. I remember picking up Dead Space half off almost right after it came out.

IMO 60$ is already too high.. if the price goes higher worldwide sales for video games will drop significantly even if the cost for production is high.

those games on average cost $200 but it did give us arcade quality games like Metal Slug

because thats how much they cost

if they were 200.00 there would still be people playing them and paying that price

hell if each game were a couple of grand and I had the money I'd rent out a space, buy a bunch of different games and put them in boxes then allow others to play for a couple of minutes at 1.00 per minute

i'd call it an arcade

n4g always with the interesting articles

...cuz we're dumb uninformed consumer sheep??

I haven't paid the full RRP of a game in years. If you look online, you can get them MUCH cheaper, many pre-orders are really cheap so you still get the game on release day.
There are few games that I'm so excited for, I'm willing to drop the RRP just to have it on day one.
Ironically, MW2 would probably have been one of them, but since Activision upped the price, I'm happy to wait and buy it second hand both to ensure I don't pay over the odds and to screw Activision in my own small way.

Amazon.com, free shipping, never paid more than 56.99 for a single PS3 game since.

BECAUSE I CAN. I have a good job and can afford to buy however many games I please. It's fun to have grown up (slightly, I'm only 21).

naw man i pay 70 dollars for games..... wat happened to the good old days when games were 50 dollars?

I buy games at full price when they are worth it, which is rarely. Other than that I wait for the price drops.

Rent the so-so ones and pony up for the ones that are worth it.

Also, put it in perspective; I have friends that will go out to a bar on Friday night and drop $100.00+ on drinks and food and parking, etc.

I can drop $60.00 on a AAA title and play it for months. Figure, even at only 1 month of playing, that is $2.00 a day. People spend double that on their morning coffee....

I pay EUR 69.95

yea i'm proud of it , i love free stuff

and lol i'm pathetic for pirating games ? are you kidding me !!
go play team fortress kid ..

60 bucks is really nothing if you look at it as form of entertainment.

Even if you clock in just 20 hours of Bioshock at 3 dollars an hour, a movie is around 8 bucks or higher. The movie is priced higher per hour than a 20 hour video game.

If you waste you money on crappy games, then it is money wasted. However if you follow the games you want, compare reviews, and no what you like, you can have a fairly inexpensive habit.

If you spend money on:
Uncharted 1&2
Modern Warfares
LittleBigPlanet
Fallout 3
Gears of War
Splinter Cell
Valkeria Chronicles
Demon's Souls
Halo's
Mass Effects
Oblivion

Then you are spending your money on quality entertainment.

Only PS3 exclusives deserve my 60$

better ask why 2mil people payed full price for an expansion.

its easy, people are stupid.

like Ron_Burgundy said
i only buy my games for the ps3 cus its worth it !

but cmon buying games for pc !! no way

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Pandamobile

if you love buying your pc games then do it
no one is holding you back

but plz stop responding to me every time i say the word pirating
jeez !!

lol ok kid
whatever make you sleep at night ..

We're actually lucky they're only $60! They were that price in the SNES days, with some games being even MORE. When SF2 first dropped, it was $74.99! And its even more if you adjust for inflation.

Considering that games are far more substantial nowadays $60 is a good sweet spot. And games get cheaper a lot faster than they used to as well. Sure we'd like everything to be cheaper, but Im not complaining.

*Why AMERICAN Gamers Pay $60 Per Game.

Goddammit this website was started by Brits.

I always buy games at launch time. I preorder all my games and pay payments on them. I just cant wait. Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2, NBA 2K10, Fonza Motorsports 3 is what im getting this year.

I never pay $60 for a game unless its a game I really want on day 1. Other than that, I buy my games used for about half that.

its sad how console gamers have to pay a tax to sony and mirco for low res games.

specially when 90% of the games played are available on all 3 platforms and we all know the pc version is always cheaper and true hd.

some of you will moan pc is expensive, though that is not true. All it takes is a 100-150usd gpu to supercharge a 2 year old pc to last this entire gen @ true hd. Out performing any console. so on the contrary consoles cost 300usd, meanwhile the games are costly too and they provide a sub par experience.

I Just bought my copy of a very fresh PC game called RedFaction:Guerrilla, and the price was 15 euros :)

Good to be a PC gamer!

What choice do we have? It's the price point they've set. And despite their whining, not many people are getting used versions of the HOT NEW releases. Mainly because they're not being traded in as much as they think.

I tell you what... keep raising the price... eventually you WILL reach the breaking point, where people finally say "this is just too expensive."

I can't even remember the last time I paid $60 for a game and I buy all my games new.

That was my next question going to be. See when the PS2 first came out their games was 49.98$ and the original Xbox was same price 49.98. PS2 use the DVD format to storage the games same goes for M$. Now in this gen I still wonder why they charge so freaking much. The PS3 use their Blu-Ray disc technology for more storage but all the DEV except a few only use the technology to use the the storage needed. Xbox 360 still use their DVD format and raise the price. I just want to know why can't they keep it at a price point where they dev can make their money and we can buy their game.