Analyst: PS4 and next-gen Xbox games will cost $70

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Michael Pachter, a well known game financial analysts who works at Wedbush Securities made a prediction this weekend at a panel at the the South by Southwest panel in Austin, Texas, that the successor to the Xbox 360 would win the next generation console wars.
He also predicts that gamers will have to spend more money on their next-gen Xbox games as well as for games made for Sony's PlayStation 4 console.

Sources reports that during his talk, Pachter said that games for both consoles would cost $70, which is $10 more than the current high price most PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 retail games. The $60 price tag was $10 higher than games for the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox.

Pachter's predictions would seem to be going against statements made by a Sony executive just after the announcement of the PlayStation 4 in February. At that time, Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton claimed on CNBC that PS4 games would have a maximum price of $60. There's no information on why Pachter believes that PS4 games would be $10 higher than Tretton's limit.

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MultitaskPosted:

oh and its not $80 its 70 dollars :)

MultitaskPosted:

Gossip Wow $80 with tax...what makes a disk cost so much?


it Doesn't Its the next gen Console :(

GossipPosted:

Wow $80 with tax...what makes a disk cost so much?

YeahBuddyyyyyPosted:

Get Game-fly brahh only 15$ a month

JakesLobbies-Posted:

OmittingCoder Well **** this I'm getting a computer.


I don't blame you, i feel the same way almost

JakesLobbies-Posted:

iXaneyy To me the price is okay like come on if the graphics are going to look beast im down with it


It may seem okay, but in the end they are scamming you out of 10 dollars

OmittingCoderPosted:

Well **** this I'm getting a computer.

aNaughtyCubanPosted:

Pool This is ridiculous, I'd never spend that much on a game.


But you're probably going to in the future if it becomes the norm.

wiikid3000Posted:

GowJ no way its gonna be 70$, not a lot of people are gonna buy it at that price


Hold up. I was completely expecting a rise of the price for the "Next-Gen Consoles." First, $70 isn't that bad. When Super Mario Bros. 3 came out, it was priced at $60. You might not think that it's not that big of a deal, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation would mean that to buy the Super Mario Bros 3 in 1988 when it was released would mean that it would cost $116.79. And some N64 games were $80 for a short time when they first came out. So really $70 for a game, I can accept that.

ripgutPosted:

Video games are expensive as is, but why are so many people acting like a 10$ increase is that astounding? You're already paying 60$ for the game, if that 10$ bump is what it takes for you to realize that something is overpriced or over valued....


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