Capcom\u2019s President claims video games should be more expensive CapcomCapcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto believes video game prices should be increased to counterbalance rising development costs. Months before the start of this console generation, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would bear a $70 price tag on PS5 and Series X|S. The $70 video game had entered the chat. Sony followed suit not long thereafter, confirming the $10 price bump for titles such as Demon\u2019s Souls and Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition. Three years later, the new price tag is slowly becoming the norm for AAA titles. The Dead Space remake costs $70, for example, as does Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 (PS5) and Mortal Kombat 1. Notably, the general thinking is that rising production costs necessitate a price hike. While the likes of Capcom have yet to abandon the $60 pricing, comments from the publisher\u2019s President suggest change could be imminent. Capcom\u2019s President says video game prices aren\u2019t high enough According to financial publication Nikkei (VGC), the topic of game pricing came up during a TGS talk with Capcom executive Haruhiro Tsujimoto. The conversation stemmed from a discussion centered on the increasing costs of game production, prompting Tsujimoto to argue that retail costs don\u2019t match the behind-the-scenes demands. The Capcom President reportedly said, \u201cPersonally, I feel that game prices are too low. Development costs are around 100 times higher than they were in the days of the Famicom (NES), but the price of software hasn\u2019t risen so much.\u201d Tsujimoto\u2019s commentary didn\u2019t end with video game prices, either. Capcom\u2018s head honcho also believes wages need to increase, especially if the industry wants to continue attracting talented developers. \u201cThere is also a need to raise wages in order to attract talented people. Given that wages are rising across the industry as a whole, I think the option of raising unit prices is a healthy form of business.\u201d As mentioned above, Capcom counts among the few AAA publishers that have yet to enforce a price hike. Its two biggest releases of the year \u2013 Resident Evil 4 Remake and Street Fighter 6 \u2013 both retailed for $60. If and when the company plans on joining Take-Two, Sony, EA, and Microsoft by charging another $10 presently remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Capcom\u2019s President claims video games should be more expensive CapcomCapcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto believes video game prices should be increased to counterbalance rising development costs. Months before the start of this console generation, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would bear a $70 price tag on PS5 and Series X|S. The $70 video game had entered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}