Would you pay $75-$100 per game without complaining? Do you think enough consumers would?
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Get over this, really. You have some good points but, I dont agree with this one.
This is like Ice Cream makers who make a new flavor, they spent months of testing, R&D, and many months of Trials before they release it finally. They spent all that money researching it, so now that single ice cream cone you want to buy with this new favor is $25. Crazy and we all know no one would by that flavor. Kind of what your thinking here, if it's too much, it wont sell no matter how good it is.
A game is $59.99 because that is what it will sell to most people. They tried releasing some games at $64.99 a while ago and it came to a fight and I have never seen it again. If X1 started selling all games for $74.99, like you said, and PS4 games all sold for $59.99 (kind of where they are pointing), guess what system would fail. The Wii became the largest selling system for a while, remember that ? It's not because it had the best games, it's about the price of the system (and most games are around $35). Video games are very price driven, Some games are must own for most people (black ops 2 anyone ?) or others do not sell as well but, they still ask the same price.
This is why the used market needs to be there. Most gamers feel this way. It still is Physical media, they dont own the software but, they own the disc. We should be able to do what we want with the media we buy, to sell it or even buy it used. Microsoft is trying to make the digital download model be forced on all conent. This lowers the value of the games you buy. I like to buy mid line tittles that I would not be willing to pay $60 for a reasonable price a month down the line, used games allow me to play more games.
Microsoft's goal here is to make the X1 be the digtal model for all content. They should learn from steam. Physical media should have it's rights as it should be as it is now, for ALL physical discs now.
How can Microsoft force people to go all digital ? Easy, use the steam model. All new games for $45-50 on digital download($35 45-60 days old) with the games still at $59.99 in the stores. This will almost remove the need or want for used games in the market. This also removes all the costs for building, shipping and returnns problems that comes with physical media. Games would sell better and they would sell a lot more than they could now, everyone with a X1 could get the game for a super discount and more people would want to get that game. I would bet sales would almost double for mid line titles and even more with AAA titles without the overhead of shipping media.
Microsoft is trying to force the digital world but, it still a Physical media that drives this market. Something has to give.
I was going to pre-order the X1 but, I have officaly decided to wait out this Used game thing. Yep the fanboys and the gamers who dont care on the cost will pre-order and buy it the system on release or pre-order but, it really comes down to how it sells in the long term. System sales are not all from the direct games, they are from the parents of gamers, once they see the cost with the games, and the DRM mess (will be hard to understand for the non-techy person), sales in the long term will be effected.
Microsoft needs to do something here and the devs need to make their money but forcing this on people, is the wrong way to do it, never mind the PR nightmare hole they have to dig themselfs out of in the long term.
Anyway about it, what MS is forcing here is the wrong way to do it... Making content cheapers for digital downloads would be the way to get MS to do what they want in the long term
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