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Game prices are too low, says Capcom exec (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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Capcom's president and chief operating officer has said he thinks game prices should go up.

Haruhiro Tsujimoto made the comments at this year's Tokyo Game Show, Nikkei reported. TGS is sponsored by the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association, a Japanese organisation which aims to support the Japanese industry, which Tsujimoto is currently the chairman of.

"Personally, I feel that game prices are too low," Tsujimoto said, citing increasing development costs and a need to increase wages.

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, he is partially right. It's insane that games have basically been the same price since forever, the only reason they stayed the same is cuz more people could afford computers/consoles and in contrast to every other industry, making a new either physical or digital copy of a game is dirt cheap, so the more users the more profit.

Idk if it actually makes sense for games to be more expensive yet tho.

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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As long as my country gets regional pricing I don't care, raise them in the US all you want they have plenty of money.

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[+] Ensign_Seitler@startrek.website -11 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The MSRP for Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges in the mid-80s, adjusted to today’s U.S. Dollar, would average around $150-200.

I don’t think games should cost that much, but we stuck with the $60 price point for literal decades so it’s not completely unreasonable for someone to talk about raising prices.

(I also write this while having only bought one game? two? In the past year.)

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you help me understand your comment? What does MSRP mean?

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price

[–] Ensign_Seitler@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, sorry. It stands for “Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price.”

In the U.S. the law doesn’t allow a manufacturer to require that retailers sell their product at a particular price, but they’re free to “suggest” one so that’s how we ended up with the MSRP.

It doesn’t carry any real weight, but it generally serves to anchor consumer expectations for a product’s value. (It also gives retailers an easy metric to compare sale prices against.)

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