Sony considered pricing PS5 games ‘even higher than $70, report claims

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Sony reportedly discussed pricing PlayStation 5 games higher than $70.

That’s according to a new Bloomberg article focused on rising next-gen software prices.

Earlier this year Take-Two’s NBA 2K21 became the first next-gen game to be priced at $70. Other publishers have since followed suit including Activision with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Sony with selected first-party titles including Demon’s Souls.

A Sony spokesperson said PS5 first-party launch games start at $50. The $70 price tag is currently reserved for the “biggest” titles in a strategy “reflective of the growing development resources needed for these ambitious games.”

In July, Xbox head Phil Spencer wouldn’t comment on how much Microsoft’s own Xbox Series X/S titles would cost when asked by The Washington Post. However, its only new first-party launch title, Gears Tactics, has a standard $60 price tag.

“Gaming can be an expensive hobby and I see certain platforms going to, in the US pricing, $70 for games,” Spencer told La Vanguardia this month. “The consoles are $500 in US pricing, and I think that’s a heavy investment for people who aren’t every day playing video games, kind of the more casual player or a family that’s balancing many things.”


FIFA and Madden publisher Electronic Arts claimed last week it hasn’t decided whether it will raise prices for its PS5 and Xbox Series X/S games in the future.

The CEO of Take-Two, which owns Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar, reiterated last week that the company will decide software pricing “on a title-by-title basis”.

Capcom is also taking this approach. “We believe game software’s price should be determined by how much money consumers are willing to pay for the quality, not by how much money we spend to make that game,” chief financial officer Kenkichi Nomura told Bloomberg.

Ubisoft‘s first wave of PS5 and Xbox Series X/S games aren’t priced at $70, but the Assassin’s Creed publisher hasn’t ruled out its next-gen releases post-Christmas 2020 coming at a premium price.



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junoPosted:

I'm glad I haven't had a console over a year, PC seems to just be more simple than ever!

Mario350Posted:

would have been stupid charging like 600$+tax cad for a console and 100$+tax which would=150$ for games, at least the price is developer/publisher based and not sony base, still sucks i have to pay like 110$ for demon souls and cod over the 600$+ tax console.

now if the games are fully playable and fully finished with all content in the game sure i wouldnt mind paying 150$ for a game thats with tax, if it was priced higher then 69.99$ usd aka 89.99$ cad

0101010101010101Posted:

OGTrey079 If devs put out complete, polished games, that aren't microtransaction'd to shit im sure people would be kool with paying more. But that rarely happens.

I partially agree I think micro transactions will always be a part of gaming now, but making a sports game $70-80 I wouldn't buy that shit, and they just push other shitty basketball game 6 months later

OGTrey079Posted:

If devs put out complete, polished games, that aren't microtransaction'd to shit im sure people would be kool with paying more. But that rarely happens.

0101010101010101Posted:

It would be a bad move. Glad I don't play console anymore.


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