Analyst: Publishers potentially slashing $60 pricing

This would cause me to buy more games. Maybe 2 at a time instead of 1. 100 dollars is a little easier to swallow than 120. People wouldn't be so inclined to buy used copies either.

First up Killzone 2...

While I'm all for saving a few bucks not if it means we gamers lose out on good games in favor of cheap squeals.

Yeah $60 is too much!!! $50 is better than $60. Anyone agrees with me?

I wish they would just return to $50 flat out.

Economic downturn or not, I've always thought that $60 is too much to pay retail for a game.

Throw in state tax (California) and the price comes out to be almost $65 for a new game.

For most people, 50 dollars is nice round number. Although 60 dollars is only 10 more, the thought of going from the mid 2-digits to high 2-digits is a very strong psychological factor. I'm sure for this reason alone they will get the sales needed to subsidize the 10 dollar price drop.

Would it really mean less good games? Or just less shovelware? If you are going to make less money off of each game, why not put your resources into the few games that are more likely to be hits?

I think I speak for everyone when I say I love to buy great games that are cheap, but what I can't stand is to buy a game at full price, and then nearly a day or two later it'll be slashed, half price.

I bought Saint's Row 2 the second week of January for $60, just to see that next week it was slashed to $30 at Gamestop and Bestbuy retailers.

Good news. $ 60 is too much for a game.

Course I've never paid more than $ 20 for any of my Xbox 360 games (all 31 of them).

There is no game that I need to have right now so I can wait for them to drop in price and/or get them used in great condition.

as much as I really want to see this happen... i dont think it will knowing the way of the gaming industry. back to look for cheap deals and price drops for me

I hate paying 60 dollars for a video game. 50 dollars is much easier to swallow, even though it's only a 10 dollar drop. Hell, even 55 dollars seems better.

The way I see it is that you sell a game for less and more people will buy it on release day and less people will wait for the price to come down or buy it used from GameStop. So, selling for $50 on release date is better than having more games on the shelve until there is a sale for the game.

Dropping the price could potentially lead to less used game sales.

$50?!?!?! How old are all you people. Take the price back to the $29.99-$39.99 days.

Personally, I wouldn't have any problem spending $60 on a game if it lasted more than 10 hours. THAT is the injustice of the current gaming industry. Console games just aren't worth the cost. Sure, they look pretty, but there's no meat to them. Most are just the same button mashing crap through the whole game, nay, through the whole series.

Current games are like a Diablo kit car powered by a 2.8L V6. Looks pretty, but a total joke.

Drop the time spent on graphics which most people don't have TV sets capable of displaying and come up with better games.

Maybe the current devs need to start playing games from the 80s and 90s. Back then, they HAD to rely on good story, game play, etc. because they couldn't rely on graphics.

I'm going to guess developers will demand the big 3 cut the disc production costs or risk losing their business so they can maintain these margins by making the games $50 each here.

If a developer puts enough development time and resources into a game it is absolutely worth the $60 price tag. Obviously the nature of the beast is to push games out before they are ready and in doing so we get allot of games that released broken and would have greatly benefited from an extra amount of time and resources.

I like to think of what Square is doing with Final Fantasy 13 as a game and a developer that are taking the time and spending the money to make the product the best it can be. I also feel this is what Sony and Guerilla did with Killzone 2.

What I'm saying is that there are some games you have to worry about being worth the full retail price when they are released. There are some other games (very few) that you know have had adequate development time and are going to be worth your money.

I spent quite a bit on games last year and bought all the games I wanted and took chances on a few others. I am going to be way more tight with my spending on games and DLC this year because of the economic outlook. Where as before I might have taken a chance on a game (Mirrors Edge, Dead Space, Valkyria Chronicles etc ...) and it turned out great this year I will only buy games that I know with 100% certainty that I will enjoy. This also leads me to only want to purchase games with lots of replay value. That means I might miss out on experiences like Bioshock over a game that has co-op or competitive multiplayer. Now, if a game launches at a lower price but still has high quality I would certainly be more apt to considering it.

This is bad for developers no matter how you slice it because I can imagine myself purchasing more games on the second hand market for 33-50% off the original retail price.