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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JakesLobbies-Posted:

Yikes I just think 70$ for a game is too much.


It is, 60 bucks is still very high.

LurkPosted:

M60
Yikes I just think 70$ for a game is too much.


It's MS and Sony they are both greedy company's


That's true but probably $65 would be a reasonable price.

CearnsyPosted:

Yikes I just think 70$ for a game is too much.


It's MS and Sony they are both greedy company's

LurkPosted:

$70 for a game?
I need to sell all my other games then.

ThePredaZorPosted:

Honestly most new games cost around $65.. if $5 is a big problem , just don't buy them.

JakesLobbies-Posted:

M60
Amendment
Soulful
Peer To be honest the price should be going down because it should be getting easier to make games with all this new technology the only reason why it would rise in price is because companies think oh look we got something better and new lets charge more because we can


I feel the same way, I'm not a big fan of the prices, if the games are good I will pay it though.


I agree, this prices are way to high


I agree there was no need in a rise in prices for games just being greedy


Its true, this is a huge scam, there is no point in raising the prices 10 bucks more.

ExoticWolfsPosted:

M60
-RageQuit-
Teh
A_Random_Guyyy Great $10 more for games.


i Actually dont mind it :)


See not many people even care about 10 dollars more


Some don't but if the game prices are going up you wouldn't expect the console to be much


The console and the games are 2 different things. It is only $10 more, I know it will all add up, up we will get use to it. I am sure the games will be much better to. :)

NotedPosted:

There jacking up the prices, hopefully they will lower as time does on

CearnsyPosted:

Amendment
Soulful
Peer To be honest the price should be going down because it should be getting easier to make games with all this new technology the only reason why it would rise in price is because companies think oh look we got something better and new lets charge more because we can


I feel the same way, I'm not a big fan of the prices, if the games are good I will pay it though.


I agree, this prices are way to high


I agree there was no need in a rise in prices for games just being greedy

JakesLobbies-Posted:

Soulful
Peer To be honest the price should be going down because it should be getting easier to make games with all this new technology the only reason why it would rise in price is because companies think oh look we got something better and new lets charge more because we can


I feel the same way, I'm not a big fan of the prices, if the games are good I will pay it though.


I agree, this prices are way to high


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