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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SkamaPosted:

This is the exact reason why I will be saving my money and instead of buying Xbox 720 I will be buying a high powered gaming PC. Then TPB will be my version of Gamestop....


Honestly $70 for a game is a rip off. I have 40 games that most are new since I bought them when they were released and im bored with pretty much all of them.

Vancouver_CanucksPosted:

The prices wont last and its up to the retailers to make the final decision.

They will be given a RRP (Recomended Retail Price) and it should be around 10gbp ($15 ish) higher than what they will sell the game for.

MawderzPosted:

Won't be having many games for it then lol.

WageringPosted:

Well this sucks... :/

OasisPosted:

Analyst predicts Xmas will fall over the end of December this year.

True story.

ImDevinBayPosted:

Not to bad actually, could have been worse honestly. Still $60 is enough!

PlusnetPosted:

SOG Hmm, I'm alright with this price, not too harsh but not too cheap.


Yea, that's what I said. It's better than $100.

SOGPosted:

Hmm, I'm alright with this price, not too harsh but not too cheap.

WokzePosted:

damn thats alot for a disc that gets boring after a while :

ExoticWolfsPosted:

Lol, you guys sound like a bunch of 5 year old's. It's $10 more, not much. I bet all of you that say you won't buy another game for the next gen console, most likely you will. Yeah, it is gay, but $60 is ridiculous in the first place. Be lucky it's not $80.


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