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Sega Sammy CEO Haruki Satomi and CFO Koichi Fukazawa were asked about the possibility of raising game prices during a Q&A session following the publication of the company’s full-year earnings in April.
“In the global marketplace, AAA game titles for console have been sold at $59.99 for many years, but titles sold at $69.99 have appeared in the last year,” Sega said in a newly published English transcript of the event.
“We would like to review the prices of titles that we believe are commensurate with price increases, while also keeping an eye on market conditions.”
Kind of ironic to see coming off of this , but I do need to be fair and accurate and clarify that this is SEGA of America's doing and the price thing is SEGA Of Japan (or just Sega Sammy)
I've said before... maybe not here, but in general that I can accept $70 if A.It coincides with higher pay (I've seen some argue games are a steal these days for years but I've never seen evidence the price has any bearing on the actual devs, realistically much of the 69.99 increases will go towards the pockets of bumbling CEOs) and B.I think, honestly for Nintendo specifically I'm thinking this but it couldn't hurt others, it needs to coincide with a greater range of price opening up. If 70 were to be the new standard for Nintendo rather then a globalization of what they did for Smash and BOTW (which I'm iffy on, they can get away with 3d Mario and mario kart being 70 next gen now so...) then current policy would dictate games like the next WarioWare, Rhythm Heaven, Switch Sports, 1-2 Switch (Stinky Horse moment) would be 60, but that feels ridiculous. I think there should be many tiers, with the big boy games such as 3d mario smash Zelda and... I don't imagine Mario Kart is a budget title so sure, being 70, many current series being 60 still, and the budget games that are currently 50 remaining so or perhaps going to 40, I think Wario and RH at least should stay 40 but I'm biased cause I want those games to be a hit and feel their bite sized style works against their price tag.
But this isn't even about Nintendo oops, but I think same for SEGA like some of their games being 70 feels insane, I'd argue only Frontiers esc games would be worth it (I mean truthfully I think 70 is too much industry wide full stop but), even the older 3d sonics but also like Persona etc should stay 60.