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Xbox One game pricing up to publishers, Phil Spencer says

Microsoft won't set the price for Xbox One games and will leave the price point of next-gen games up to publishers, Microsoft Studios' corporate vice president Phil Spencer told Polygon today.

Donnieboi4144d ago

Great so if they wanna do $70, then it's all good, huh? -_-

HyperBear4144d ago

Yeah pretty much!! It may not happen at launch, but once the XbOne has been out for a year or two, you'll slowly see them reaching $69.99 - $79.99.

Donnieboi4144d ago

Lol @ XbOne. I'm gonna use that from now one hahaha

Jake_the_Dog4144d ago

They would be really stupid to pull that shit in this type of economy.

aaron58294144d ago

XBone ... i read it as X Bone

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nick3094144d ago

They need to make digital prices lower then retail for once

LackTrue4K4144d ago

70 plus the 30 for seasons pass

"i still can believe they came up with DLC called "seasons pass"

Kenshin_BATT0USAI4144d ago

Even better, season passes don't cover all dlc. What the heck is the point of 'em?

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jc485734144d ago

some kind of compromise is going to be made regardless

EA: Make it 100 dollars
Microsoft: okay, we will add 200 on top of that.

stuna14144d ago

Naw! Each Xbox 1 will come with an expiration date that you will see once you go online the first time! Then it will take you to the Terms of Service agreement screen, from there after accepting their terms, it will take you to Credit card imformation screen, there you will be require to enter accurate imformation after that you're all done!

Until you recieve your credit card statement, and find out you've been billed for 14 consecative yearly payments of $69.00 with no option to decline.

fsfsxii4144d ago (Edited 4144d ago )

Why not call it XboxEA at this point??
It all makes sense now, i knew EA was too evil to drop the online passes, and now the Fee for the used games and publishers set the price?? MS really needs to go

Loki864144d ago

So since you can trade and sell games online it will drive the price down for publishers thus leading to better deals for the consumer. At least that's how I interpret it, but I'll probably get downvoted because I said something positive.

thelaughingwiseman4144d ago

Not from me. I believe in rewarding sound logic. It seems like the Xbox is rewarding the fee's the users pay with services. They assume the average gamer demographic is still in their college years (sports, laziness, men) but the truth is, the Demographic of gamers have grown up. They used to be in the 18-24 range, but now they are the 25-30 age. These guys are more sophisticated. They don't multitask with one object, they have multiple advanced objects (high end pc, high end phone, high end TV). This is a great home entertainment, something guys busy living their lives can use.

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badz1494144d ago

More like something that is "never gonna happen"!

rainslacker4144d ago

Unfortunately if you leave control of the market in the publishers hands, then game prices will remain artificially high longer. Digital game prices now are at the discretion of the publisher, and because there is no competition digitally for them, the prices are usually much higher than retail.

The competition at retail is what keeps prices down. That and the fact that companies want to offload stock. Something that isn't a factor in digital distribution.

For the most part I haven't seen any of the major publishers actually thinking they should give a good deal to the consumer. It's more about whining that the consumer isn't supporting them, and then doing everything they can to force as much money from them as possible. Nothing this gen makes me think that publishers are on our side.

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