New Console Game Prices effect PC games?

[MeMeMeMe]

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.

Exactly this. Put a game you want on your steam wishlist, and steam will email you every time it goes on sale.

You cant judge steam prices by the normal price, because they have so many sales- a different game every day, higher profile games in the mid week and weekend sales, various special events and publisher-related across the year, and the big summer and winter sales.

Plus a lot of other etailers sell steam keys, and challenge steam pricing, which is good for users of steam.

So there's no reason to ever pay full price for a game on steam, unless you absolutely must play it on the day of release.

 

[Diplexbullet19]

Ill admit this year ive bought way more games from GMG than steam and that is continuing, my pre-order of rome 2 will be from GMG not steam.

 

[NZB]

So there's no reason to ever pay full price for a game on steam, unless you absolutely must play it on the day of release.

Or it's a hugely popular one that you want to play in the first year after release. Steam are notorious for keeping the money making game prices high, especially MP FPS ones. Black Ops 1 and 2 are still £39.99 on there as an example, BO2 can be had for half that pretty much everywhere else.

 

[Jono8]

Meh, i will continue to wait until PC games are sub £10 for even a game i think will be good. Sub £5 for anything i am not sure about.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

I'm pretty sure conkers bad fur day and a couple of others on the N64 were like £50 on release, I remember paying like £60+ for some import games.

 

[arknor]

I'm pretty sure conkers bad fur day and a couple of others on the N64 were like £50 on release, I remember paying like £60+ for some import games.

I remember resident evil 2 or whatever it was on the playstation being £50 to back in the 90s

 

[Omaeka]

Or it's a hugely popular one that you want to play in the first year after release. Steam are notorious for keeping the money making game prices high, especially MP FPS ones. Black Ops 1 and 2 are still £39.99 on there as an example, BO2 can be had for half that pretty much everywhere else.

99% sure that is Activision dictating the price.

The only thing Steam rips people off with is older games, shouldn't have to pay £15 for Quake 3 tbh, and why are the previous two Elder Scrolls games the same price as Skyrim now!? Makes no sense.

As for Resident Evil 2, it was a special edition that came with a T-shirt, that's still nuts though! These days an £80 special edition will get you loads of goodies.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

Or it's a hugely popular one that you want to play in the first year after release. Steam are notorious for keeping the money making game prices high, especially MP FPS ones. Black Ops 1 and 2 are still £39.99 on there as an example, BO2 can be had for half that pretty much everywhere else.

That's Activision, not Steam. They try to keep the the prices of the CoD franchise high for all digital distributors. Kind of similar to the way EA is keeping their biggest games off steam entirely.

It's not steam being notorious for keeping prices high - it's certain notorious publishers shafting their online competitors for the sake of retail.

 

[MissChief]

I'm pretty sure conkers bad fur day and a couple of others on the N64 were like £50 on release, I remember paying like £60+ for some import games.

I paid £70 for Street Fighter 2 on SNES along with £15 for and adaptor back in the day. Paying £30+ for a game like Borderlands 2 that I have played for over 220 hours or BF3 that I play for hours a week is fine with me.

 

[MrMoonX]

lol steam fanboys saying steam is a great service etc. prices are good, you can buy a steam code on GMG for a lot cheaper!!!!

 

[WingZero30]

£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.

 

[HangTime]

^What he's saying holds some merit though, in real terms games have arguably been falling in price. 20 years ago if you wanted the latest Street Fighter or whatever you were talking like £60 which is around £100 in today's money.

As for the topic I don't think they will have a massive effect other than perhaps boosting the launch price of some AAA cross platform titles (as we've already seen from the recent CoD games).

 

[Calin Banc]

That's because they weren't as wide spread as they are now.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

lol steam fanboys saying steam is a great service etc. prices are good, you can buy a steam code on GMG for a lot cheaper!!!!

Which to me, is an advantage of steam. There are several different places you can buy steam keys, and if they are cheaper than steam, all the better.

Steam is more than the store - it's the service that provides the community, the download and update service. The fact that you can also now buy steam games in various outlets and benefit from competition driving prices down is added value.