Do you think Skyrim will be 50 or 60 dollars? : V - Skyrim

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:58 pm

€50-€55 in Ireland I reckon.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:04 pm

Depends on the value of your country's currency and economic crisis. During that US stock market crash all new games in Canada were 69.99. Now all new games are 59.99 but there are still a few that are 64.99 and 69.99. Fallout New Vegas was 59.99 when it came out here and now the price has gone up to 64.99. So I expect Skyrim to be 59.99 in Canada at least then it will rise in price over the next few months. So if you guys see Skyrim for 59.99 buy it because if you don't the price is just going to go up.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:45 pm

I think it will cost about 599NOK. I'm from Norway so dollars doesn't matter much here

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:39 pm

Hopefully it's not the beginning of a trend, but a couple current PC games on Steam (Crysis 2 & Dragon Age 2) are $60.

This might then lead to consoles being $70 and then so on. Should I be more worried about inflation or what?

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:06 pm

What you all complaining about? If you live in Australia, the game is going to be $99.00 dollars, like all other games.

5 years ago, probably. The prices are getting even higher as our dollar gets stronger (logically should be the opposite). Some of the more upmarket or popular games now can cost as much as $130 at some shops. When COD (forget which one, 4 I think) came out, I saw it for between $115 and $125 at every store I went to (I wasn't actually buying it but I was checking out all the game prices while I had nothing else to do).

» Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:24 am

I live in sweden, where all new games for the PC cost 500 swedish crowns. Current exchange rate puts that at $78.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:32 pm

I think it will be ￡29.99 thats what PC games go for in England, making it roughly $50

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:28 pm

C'mon people do any of you understand economics? Games in general have been holding steady at 50$ for nearly a decade. Did you honestly believe as the price of everything else in the world increases that games would remain the same forever? All the resources used to make games from electricity to toilet paper has increased in price over the last ten years and you have enjoyed a constant static cost in your video gaming entertainment. Yet your paying more for all other forms of entertainment from sports venues to concerts to movie tickets than you did just five years ago. It was only a matter of time you know. We can't really complain much if the gaming industry holds at 60$ for as long as it held at 50.

Console games went from 50 to 60 when the new gen (PS3/X360) came out. Now, I have a terrible memory, but haven't PC games always tended to $10 less than console? In which case they would have been $40 a decade ago?

/ponder

(and isn't the difference based on the fact that the console makers try to recoup their hardware losses via software sales. So I imagine that Sony/MS get a cut of software sales? Or is it just 1st-party games that they're going off?)

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:53 pm

Pst, they make more money than we do here. :whisper:

Interesting. I checked it out. Yeah, we earn on average around 65,000 a year and Americans around 40,000. So it's not quite as unbalanced (but we still get ripped off a bit, paying twice your price but earning less than half your income). I hate the way economics works. Why can't we just have prices that match our dollar prices?

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:03 pm

Dunno the currency at the time, but atleast 70 euros

» Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:38 am

:celebration: Here it will be no more than 30 bucks for sure. Crysis 2 Limited Edition costs $30 now. Shogun 2 was less than 20 on launch. Sometimes it's good to live in a developing country :celebration:

» Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:17 am

$60 for consoles like every game has been and will be for a while.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:18 pm

If any games are worth their price tags, it's Bethesda's games.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:00 pm

I remember paying 109$ cad for BrainLord on the Snes, and 89$ cad for Secret of Evermore.

60$ for Skyrim will be Nothing.

But like the commecials would say:

This year's CoD: 50$
New Battlefield: 60$
New Elder Scrolls: Priceless!

» Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:43 am

I've never paid more than $50 for a new PC game. The day the $60 price tag is standardized for that format (where they don't even have to worry about licensing fees) is the day I stop buying new games altogether.

I bought Oblivion for around $20 a couple of months after it had been released. By that time it was still going for full price on Xbox, which was even higher than what the PC Collector's Edition was selling for.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:44 am

PC - $50
Consoles - $60

This is how it has been for years and I hope it doesn't change.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:22 pm

499 Kroner probably...

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:57 pm

Console games went from 50 to 60 when the new gen (PS3/X360) came out. Now, I have a terrible memory, but haven't PC games always tended to $10 less than console? In which case they would have been $40 a decade ago?

/ponder

(and isn't the difference based on the fact that the console makers try to recoup their hardware losses via software sales. So I imagine that Sony/MS get a cut of software sales? Or is it just 1st-party games that they're going off?)

The point is video game entertainment is not immune to inflation and we've been lucky up till now that the gaming industry has been eating that increase for the better part of a decade. They can't offset it forever. A time will come when all prices will go up, it's just an irrefutable law of economics.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:46 am

At the end of 2011, I expect we will be paying $300 for games.

» Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:50 am

On release day do you think this will be a 50 or 60 dollar game (or over 60, or under 50)? So how much do you think this game will be?

60 dollars is okay with me.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:25 am

The point is video game entertainment is not immune to inflation and we've been lucky up till now that the gaming industry has been eating that increase for the better part of a decade. They can't offset it forever. A time will come when all prices will go up, it's just an irrefutable law of economics.

Beware, for this knife has two edges. a Hike up in price means an increase in piracy, and waving the "STOP, you've violated the law" flag does'nt always prevent piracy.

they might be offsetting it to keep piracy from getting too common. price hikes would kill the industry.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:12 pm

It will be $60, overpriced, but it is what it is.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:09 pm

60 for Xbox and Ps3, but 50 for PC.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:34 pm

Standard Edition for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC will be 59.99 USD. Has no one looked at the pre-order dealy on the main site? Really? I mean there's still a chance that the Standard Edition for the PC will go for 49.99 USD, but of late game companies seem to be looking to eliminate that pricing discrepancy.

I also expect any Limited/Collectors/Gilded Edition to cost between 69.99 USD and 99.99 USD (up to 149.99 USD or 299.99 USD if they have a You Must Be Crazy Edition that comes with, I don't know, a battle-ready sword or a pet dragon or something equally insane).

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:47 pm

I'll be paying 28 euros (40 dollar) for the PC version. Thank you amazon.co.uk, and the exchange rates between the euro and the pound!

If I'd buy it in a Dutch store normally it would be 50 euros (70 dollar).