Doesn't matter. They know Battlefield is about to explode on consoles and Madden/Fifa fans have been lost to the EA machine.
Current generation console gamers don't know the concept of speaking with their wallets. Sucks to be you guys as I've said my peace with Battlefield after being a hardcore fan of the series since pre 1942 launch over 10 years ago.
Could be true. The worrying thing is that this price increase isnt something that looks as though its out of reality.
We hear a fair few Devs/Publishers (Tomb Raider was one of the more recent)complaining about not making enough of a profit that makes me think this is possible.
EDIT: Just noticed!
"titles will carry an RRP of £54.99 - £5 more than the average current-gen RRP."
Don't know what other regions will be, but they are priced at $59.99 in the states, which is the current norm. I'd expect other regions to be set at the current norm price.
Next gen consoles are supposed to be way cheaper to develop for, despite outputting higher quality, because the whole development can be much faster (up to 3 times, that a lot less work time to pay for). So the whole devs not making enough money this gen is no excuse for next one.
Also, publishers kept talking about how they had to charge for used games and pump out DLC, passes and what not because this gen costs of development was increased... Funny, that was the very reason that they raised the price of games from 50 to 60 day one in current gen, wasn't it? The whole hike in costs of development had already been dealt with, period. If it wasn't enough it can be either of two things:
#1 They can't manage a business properly. #2 They can't manage development properly.
In either case, they are the ones to blame and not gamers demands over a higher cost development. And if they try to pin that on gamers they can as well kiss my ass, hope they land on their faces... "Natural" selection at it's finest, if you can't survive we'll probably be better with you out of the pool anyway.
@Pekolie, Nope, the RRP is or was £50 over here in the UK for just about every major game.
I'm not surprised that GAME are struggling. They earn just enough to stay afloat on used game sales. Those sales prevent GAME from hiking the price to RRP. They can't really afford to increase the price either because amazon and the supermarkets will always beat them on price.
Can't remember the last time I went premium or bought DLC. As far as I'm concerned, the "full" game is what gets packed in / is free. Everything else is gravy... and gravy aint free.
An extra 5? New games cost £40 in the UK. That's a £15 price hike, or about $22. I'm almost certain that those are placeholder prices. If not, then I'll be importing my games from the states.
EA seem to be jacking the price up all 'round. http://n4g.com/news/1304863... It boggles the mind how they think this will improve their damaged image.
It's like they identify what will make them look like the biggest douchebags and say "You know what? Let's go with that."
still better than the $90 paid in EU countries (€69.99). I remember when the $ was doing badly against the Euro towards the end of the recession (2011) the converted figure was pushing $100+
What are games usually in Great Britain? Cause here in New Zealand you at this time in a consoles life span a launch game is around $85 nzd ($66 usd) but the activision games for next gen are all up around $138 nzd ($108 usd) which is insane I am not bing destiny at that price.
Games are currently too expensive in the uk and they are thinking of raising the price again. Might cancel my ps4 I'm not paying that much for games, I think at that price they will lose a lot of sales.
Nobody is forcing you to buy games only from EA or buy them at launch ! There is always option of waiting for price drops on titles that are not that important for you to play on day 1 :)
Thats just the RRP, current gen titles in the UK usually have a RRP of £49.99 (like the article states) but all major retailers usually price their games at £39.99 and lower.
Yeah everybody else is doing the original price, so you don't have to buy BF4 if you don't want to. Sony already said their games will range from .99 to 59.99
Erm, new games in the UK cost £40. That's $59.49 at the current exchange rate. Compared to a $59.99 price for a new game in the US, it's more or less the same price. Of course, when you talk about electronics and not media, then US all the way.
Never again will i pay full retail for an EA game, rent it for £5 or wait till it goes down in price and buy it pre owned. Ill give my money to other more hard-working devs who care more about games and the gamers and not only the $$$$$$
This is ridiculous, i mean they say they will stop putting in online access codes and then say they will increase the price buy £15? Give me a freaking break. I'd much rather have online access codes than pay an extra £15 just for buying an EA game.
Extra 5 dollars is a lot, even in Asian countries as well. So according to my country's conversion rate, each EA game will cost 175.23 bucks, and this is a bit too expensive for me to buy compared to PS3 games. Hope EA will drop the price in the future for PS4 games.
You go into places like Game or even Tesco. I remember the midnight BF3 launch at Game, they were charging £50.00 for the console versions of the game.
Hence i don't buy them on consoles anymore.
Most of there new top IP's are around about £45 - £50 on consoles.
Problem is, they are all doing it, Acti are one of the worst, MW3 was £45 at launch.
I appreciate you can probably pick them up on line for cheaper, but moms & pops wont know the difference, they just go and buy whatever little Billy tells them to buy.
Ea we will drop online passes because we have consumers in mind! But wait you need to pay the full price to preorder and now are games are quite a bit more expensive!
-_- EA
I might just might skip on bf4
70$ usd not including tax is a little much for one game
lol thats like $80, terrible
Games are currently too expensive in the uk and they are thinking of raising the price again. Might cancel my ps4 I'm not paying that much for games, I think at that price they will lose a lot of sales.
I never buy games when I go to the UK too expensive the US is dirt cheap compared.
Never again will i pay full retail for an EA game, rent it for £5 or wait till it goes down in price and buy it pre owned. Ill give my money to other more hard-working devs who care more about games and the gamers and not only the $$$$$$
NO