Shuhei Yoshida, former president of Sony Worldwide Studios in PlayStation, has reflected on the price up of video games. Throughout this generation, the software has modified its price standard and The tendency is to continue increasing in the future. For the former manager, recently retired from Sony, this situation was inevitable.
“I think it was going to happen sooner or later, perhaps not from Nintendo, but it was going to happen at some point. We lived in polarization times, in which inflation is real and significant, although although People expect games to be even more ambitious and therefore more expensive to develop, but costing the same. That is an impossible equation, ”he said in PlayStation Inside statements.
More technological needs than ever
Yoshida has stressed that current video games require more resources, because they are increasingly advanced. “All in current video games is more advanced and technologically more demanding than ever. Therefore, more resources are needed. Each editor or manufacturer chooses the prices of their games, of course, but at the center of everything underlies production costs. “
-Take-Two and PlayStation uploaded their prices in the present generation. Then, the rest of the companies set the standard of triple A titles at 80 euros. Now, Nintendo has overcome that barriersince Mario Kart world will sell at 90 euros. Of course, not all Switch 2 games will cost so much. For example, Donkey Kong Bananza can buy for 80 euros.
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