The industry must work together to address falling software sales by changing the way games are priced and sold. That’s according to Namco Bandai Partners’ vice president and head of sales and marketing Olivier Comte.
Possibilities include selling games at reduced prices, delivering them episodically – and even lobbying format holders to address licensing costs for console and handheld titles.
“I feel all the big video game companies need to join together in a worldwide summit to discuss the future of our industry. I think we have to pull our thoughts together,” he told MCV.
“If you compare [games] to music, music has two ways to make money – sales of disc, which is decreasing, and concert tickets, which are increasing so there’s another source of revenue for the artist.
“Games just have one model, the sale of the product either as a box or a digital download. So we need to think about how we can develop a secondary business model.”
Immersed Gamer writes: "Let Me Solo Her is a legendary Elden Ring player who mastered one of the most infamous bosses to help his fellow tarnished via co-op. And for his service, he received an award from Namco Bandai to commemorate his 1,000th victory. The reward in question is a real, and extremely dope, custom-made sword.
Malenia is regarded as the hardest boss in Elden Ring, and the relentless Tarnished has defended literally thousands of hosts against this malice. Let Me Solo Her apparently passed 2,000 Malenia kills a while back, but it’s hard to measure the exact count he is at now. Bandai Namco sent the gift his way when he was at around 1,000 kills. But due to the nature of the object, it got stuck in customs for a while!"
Nice to see an healthy online behavior to be recognize by the dev teams.
But man.... How many hours did he spent playing Elden Ring? Not sure it's that healthy in real life 😂
But still kuddo to him :)
Laced Records has teamed up with Bandai Namco for the release of a triple vinyl-set featuring music from retro-classics Tekken Tag Tournament & Tekken 4.
TTT is one of my all time favorite games, but I always found its soundtrack to be terrible. I'd mute the music and put my own on.
Metacritic reveals the past year's best and worst videogame publishers (based on their 2018 releases) in their 9th annual Game Publisher Rankings.
just reduce them.you already gave them a hike who is going to pay for episodic full retail games? if you are i'm going to slap you
Push games back down to $50. That'd be the life.
The economy went down and game prices went up. Now you still want our money and you're trying to figure out how to screw us over again. I have an idea for you, you want our money? EARN IT! Developers make crappy games then expect them to fly off shelves. You want to restructure something! Restructure your own company, start from the top and work your way down And Start making games people are going to care about. That my dear blood sucking friend is how you should go about this.
I think $45 dollars is the sweet spot. They dont have to worry bout used games anymore. They can just use codes for the online just like EA is doing with UFC.
well if devs put out more quality games ppl would buy them....