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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MazurPosted:

Yikes $70 for a game, thats just crazy.


It's probably because of the cost to make the games now that our technology is so high-grade. o.O

MTVPosted:

They just want to make money and fast

MazurPosted:

SOG
Mazur
Whirlpool Finally! a new gaming system that I can actually afford! Yay!!!


Lol the games are going to be $70, not the console. The consoles will be anywhere between $300-$700


I think he read wrong, $70 for a console would be like the Wii Mini...


Even though the Wii Mini is $99... lol I'm pretty sure he read wrong.

SOGPosted:

Mazur
Whirlpool Finally! a new gaming system that I can actually afford! Yay!!!


Lol the games are going to be $70, not the console. The consoles will be anywhere between $300-$700


I think he read wrong, $70 for a console would be like the Wii Mini...

MazurPosted:

Whirlpool Finally! a new gaming system that I can actually afford! Yay!!!


Lol the games are going to be $70, not the console. The consoles will be anywhere between $300-$700

SkylineLegendsPosted:

Yikes
Whirlpool Finally! a new gaming system that I can actually afford! Yay!!!


The gaming system isnt $70 the games for the console are $70.


lol now he is forever alone.

CDCPosted:

Finally! a new gaming system that I can actually afford! Yay!!!

ipPosted:

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Diaby that's stupid how the games are gonna be sooo much tho ....


Exactly ain't nobody got money fo dat


Yes, but what if the graphics and stuff are just as amazing as everybody thinks?


Then there I got money of dat


They need to make it to where it was like the Kinect. I liked the Kinect. PS Move was crap.

MTVPosted:

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Diaby that's stupid how the games are gonna be sooo much tho ....


Exactly ain't nobody got money fo dat


Yes, but what if the graphics and stuff are just as amazing as everybody thinks?


Then there I got money of dat

PGAPosted:

EMT
Diaby that's stupid how the games are gonna be sooo much tho ....


Exactly ain't nobody got money fo dat


Yes, but what if the graphics and stuff are just as amazing as everybody thinks?


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