Make the games worth buying.

you can do what xbox did. ban all pirates from online play making the console pretty much obsolete therefore making them rebuy a new 360 for online play only and buying only AAA games that they really want , only to play pirated <90 scoring games on their other console. ;)

For me personally i would like to have a different standard scale for game prices.

Yearly sports games and COD's with a different coat of paint should be much lower in price.

SP only games should perhaps have a lower price compare to SP + MP games given that SP + MP game in theory should be more expensive to make and maintain as with the MP component.

I do agree with most who posted above about reducing the price of games. If games are cheap i am sure a lot of people will buy legit copies.

Reduce the price to make them affordable to many people to sell more and get more money in return.

The industry should look at other revenue streams to try and offset game production budget which seems to be one of the excuses use for hiking prices.

Price is too cheap for games. I'll get a lot of dislikes for this, but devs aren't getting enough credit for their games. Publishers hog all the profits and then give back about 30% to gaming studios. These guys need to rebel when people start making video games an essential part of their existence, like movies. Remember, gaming hasn't been around as long as mainstream media, and eventually, they'll be making so much money, you won't have to worry about price. But right now, you do, because games take like 4 years to make. Deal with it.

The main reasons why Steam is very successful:

1) Price - Steam constantly does sales and pretty good ones too like 70% reduction for Complete Valve Pack. It goes to show how much they can reduce and yet still make profit. So it's very obvious that games are overpriced these days.

2) Convenience - While there is a debate over whether Digital Download should replace Physical Media, Steam is completely Digital yet still very successful. Why? Because a customer can purchase a game and play it in a short period of time right in the comfort of his home. Convenience is a very attractive thing to consumers.

By making good games?

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