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New Consoles Inflate Game Prices

| 25 Jul 2007 19:12

NextGeneration has an informative piece on the price of video games, which has gone up thanks to the new generation of games. It used to be that a new game cost $40, now it's closed to $60. Next Generation asks if this is a fad or a trend and has some bad news.

Now, 20-odd months on from the Xbox 360's launch and half a year into the PlayStation 3's life, we ask how the $60 game experiment is going. Are consumers buying those higher priced games?

We've analyzed prices of the top selling games for the past three years, with a special focus on the last 12 months, to get an idea of whether those more expensive games are selling well.

Read more there.

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