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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PGAPosted:

Soulful
HTG_x_illuzionz We already pay to much for games and all they are going to do is keep raising the price


For now it's only $10, but it will keep adding up.


Yeah, they will raise them for high quality/demand games.

SOGPosted:

-RageQuit- I think this is where PC Gaming will thrive as Steam constantly
put on good deals at very cheap prices


You're right, I can see that happening for sure.

SOGPosted:

Zeta
HTG_x_illuzionz We already pay to much for games and all they are going to do is keep raising the price


Well these games are for a new console so you can only expect the prices to be high...


It doesn't really mean they should be higher.

KenjishuPosted:

I think this is where PC Gaming will thrive as Steam constantly
put on good deals at very cheap prices

MawderzPosted:

HTG_x_illuzionz We already pay to much for games and all they are going to do is keep raising the price


Well these games are for a new console so you can only expect the prices to be high...

HTG_x_illuzionzPosted:

We already pay to much for games and all they are going to do is keep raising the price

SkylineLegendsPosted:

EMT
Yikes
Mazur
Twist-Version-7
Yikes $70 for a game, thats just crazy.


Everything now'adays is overpriced-.-


They have to make back all the money they spent creating the game and the new console, it is kind of fair when you look at it from another perspective.


Yeah, I guess that makes since, but I dont have that kind of money to blow on a game, $60 was rough for me and now it $70? I might not even get a PS4..


Yeah man same here it's way to much


Yea thats why im staying with PC

MTVPosted:

Yikes
Mazur
Twist-Version-7
Yikes $70 for a game, thats just crazy.


Everything now'adays is overpriced-.-


They have to make back all the money they spent creating the game and the new console, it is kind of fair when you look at it from another perspective.


Yeah, I guess that makes since, but I dont have that kind of money to blow on a game, $60 was rough for me and now it $70? I might not even get a PS4..


Yeah man same here it's way to much

MazurPosted:

Twist-Version-7
Yikes $70 for a game, thats just crazy.


Everything now'adays is overpriced-.-


They have to make back all the money they spent creating the game and the new console, it is kind of fair when you look at it from another perspective.

Twist-Version-7Posted:

Yikes $70 for a game, thats just crazy.


Everything now'adays is overpriced-.-


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