New Console Game Prices effect PC games?

shankly1985

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Hello wasn't playing PC games at the time of last Gen Ps3 so I just wanting to know will the PC games prices go up?
PS4 games will cost £50-£65 :eek: where does this leave the steam / origin sales?
 
The £50-65 prices for next gen are just placeholders. Prices will go back to normal by release.
 
£55-60 will be the RRP, that does not mean prices will be £55-60.

Saying that the price of games hasn't gone up for years, realistically it's about time they did.
 
shankly1985 said:
Hello wasn't playing PC games at the time of last Gen Ps3 so I just wanting to know will the PC games prices go up?
PS4 games will cost £50-£65 :eek: where does this leave the steam / origin sales?
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leaves them nowhere different.

all you need to know is pc sales will slip a bit when the new console games arrive as will pc components as less demand as a lot buy into the new tech consoles if you can really call it that.

this means prices will be tight and deals galore for pc gamers :cool:

as for origin and EA just selling bf4 doesn't govern the rest of the market and the prices will quickly drop on that game. what people need to remember with bf4 there is no competition other than cod .
 
they have sales every year, i don't know about you guys but i normally wait till the sales then buy the games to last me till the next summer sales.
 
linwelin said:
they have sales every year, i don't know about you guys but i normally wait till the sales then buy the games to last me till the next summer sales.
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Meaning you wait for Steam to reduce their prices before buying from them, thank you for proving my point. Without sales Steam is incredibly expensive.
 
Fenris said:
Meaning you wait for Steam to reduce their prices before buying from them, thank you for proving my point. Without sales Steam is incredibly expensive.
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Without sales, Steam is normal.

And it's very rare you'll struggle to get a game you want that isn't on sale... Pre-release, season sales, weekend/daily deals... Not to mention they notify you by email when a game on your wishlist goes on ANY sale...

Just another Steam hater I guess.
 
FIFA 14 on PlayStation 4 has declined in price since all the PlayStation 4 announcements anyway; £55 - £47 - £42, so it has fallen back in line pretty much with the prices of current generation.

I think some games will be more expensive, but generally I don't see gaming as being that expensive, not when you consider how many hours players put in to games compared to other forms of entertainment like the cinema or theatre for example.
 
Console games will be full RRP for a few months then drop just like they did with 360 and PS3.

As i said in another thread PC gamers are spoilt into thinking a AAA game they will play for hours on end should only be costing them £20. £40 for a game like BF4 is not a bad price by a long shot, and premium DLC isnt even that bad as it does have good value for money.

However paying an extra £10-15 to get Beta access and some digital vanity goods does erk me quite a bit.
 
steam sales suck always always old games or insignificant discounts on new games that don't even match the retail disc price off an online store.

I have definitely noticed a trend in the direction of pc prices going up.
 
Outline said:
Without sales, Steam is normal.

And it's very rare you'll struggle to get a game you want that isn't on sale... Pre-release, season sales, weekend/daily deals... Not to mention they notify you by email when a game on your wishlist goes on ANY sale...

Just another Steam hater I guess.
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Steam's a great service, but their sales aside, they're being undercut by plenty of other online retailers these days like GMG. The thread is clearly talking about new release games, not stuff in sales.

There's seldom a reason to ever buy a full-price game or pre-order one on Steam when you can find the same thing cheaper elsewhere and activate it on Steam anyway.
 
50 Quid was the defecto price for nearly all the ps1 top releases.

I have a whole collection, inc resi 2, 50 notes day of release i paid (game) 20 more i picked up the resi gamepad too.

Presume you must have an import at 80:o

As for the base prices going up, rrp is near meaningless to the consumer these days at retail... be thankfull of it. If you're only choice were steam/ea/psn/xbox services, you'd be getting royaly screwed over with price fixing and 'deals'. Steam and all the likes greatest trick, selling you dead money, sony's... banking it in advance.
 
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