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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CentPosted:

Only $10 more than normal, at least they aren't going to make it $90.

EmazedPosted:

EMT
Soulful
Yikes
Teh
EMT I don't see why they don't leave it at 60


because its a new console better games and prob graphics.


Doubt it. They're just earning the money they spent making consoles back faster by selling the games $10 higher.


They make that money from the initial console.


I think they are just money whores

They are, but in a year or two the prices of games might drop $10 less.

MultitaskPosted:

xIIJazza That means around 50, Jesus, that's shocking..


you mean 70 o-o

xIIJazzaPosted:

That means around 50, Jesus, that's shocking..

MTVPosted:

Soulful
Yikes
Teh
EMT I don't see why they don't leave it at 60


because its a new console better games and prob graphics.


Doubt it. They're just earning the money they spent making consoles back faster by selling the games $10 higher.


They make that money from the initial console.


I think they are just money whores

An-obese-bullPosted:

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MultitaskPosted:

EMT I don't see why they don't leave it at 60


because its a new console better games and prob graphics.

yayPosted:

SOG
EMT I don't see why they don't leave it at 60


It's a new console, a new next-gen console will always boost the price of games. Expect to see better quality games this year!


... except that PC games will still be lower, with the same games/higher quality.

SOGPosted:

EMT I don't see why they don't leave it at 60


It's a new console, a new next-gen console will always boost the price of games. Expect to see better quality games this year!

MTVPosted:

I don't see why they don't leave it at 60


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