Name: Why Most New Video Games Cost $60
Uploaded: 2021-05-27T09:30:51.000Z
Duration: 3 min 41 s
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The craziest thing about video games being $60

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is that they've gotten much, much more complicated

To-infinitive

to make over time, but the price has stayed exactly at $60.

If you're buying a new "Super Mario" game

on Nintendo Switch, it's probably gonna cost 60 bucks.

There are special editions, there are limited editions.

for you to spend more than $60 on video games,

for a blockbuster video game on a console is now $60.

where games cost anywhere from $40 to $80

in the Nintendo, early Nintendo Entertainment System era.

That was around the PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64 era.

about 10 years later, the price increased

The $60 price is mostly due to consumer expectation,

so if you're Nintendo or you're Sony or Microsoft

or any of the other game publishers out there,

if you released your game the base level price

it's a strong possibility people just won't buy it.

I think both consumers and game publishers to an extent

but because there's a standard. There's an expectation.

You can go in knowing that the next "Call of Duty,"

the next "Madden," whatever, is gonna cost the same

as you paid the last year or the year before that.

So it's not like it benefits me that it's $60.

It benefits me knowing that I'm not gonna spend

You wanna know how much you can expect to get in returns.

This is how much people are gonna pay for my game.

That said, when game companies offer season passes,

or something like that, they can charge more.

But it's largely due to consumer expectation,

and not necessarily just due to the cost of

developing games, because games cost tens of millions

of dollars to develop, and the $60 for each one,

you have to sell tens of millions of copies

to make up for the amount of money you've invested,

which is why there are so many other ways that

game companies have tried to figure out how to subsidize

the vast majority of blockbuster console games.

That's why there's stuff like season passes

how to try to make more from what they have.

Maybe it comes with a handful of rare items

versus what are known as like common items.

You're not paying for a skin for the character

that you play in a game, you're paying for

There's an element of gambling to it, essentially, right?

And that's problematic both for government regulators

and for parents and for just people who buy games.

I think there will continue to be a market for $60 games,

but I think that it's being eaten into more than ever

whether they're free or just less expensive.

No confusion, brains are dumb, especially mine.

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