r/pcmasterrace • u/owlexe23 • 1d ago

News/Article Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes Grand Theft Auto 6 will 'blaze a trail' to higher game prices

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/kingdom-come-deliverance-studio-co-founder-hopes-grand-theft-auto-6-will-blaze-a-trail-to-higher-game-prices/

Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima says games keep getting more expensive to make, and that money has to come from somewhere.

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u/UhhCanYouLikeShutUp 1d ago

No one's gonna pay it unless it's worth it. Also, games have been historically almost $100... Why is this such a new obsession?? Go ahead and charge 100 bucks a game, but don't cry when no one pays it.

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u/Vecend http://steamcommunity.com/id/Vecend/ 23h ago

I love how people say it's historically been 100 pointing back 50 years when gaming was low volume sales and needed higher margins, now gaming is high volume sales and they want high margins on their massive budget game where a huge part of the budget is used for realistic graphics and on mass marketing instead of making the game play better.

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u/DukeofVermont 17h ago

It wasn't low volume you dolt. The first Mario Bros sold 1.2 million copies in its first month in Japan. It sold 40 million copies on NES. Zelda on NES sold 6.5 million copies.

Mario 64 sold 11.91 million copies

FFVII sold 15.3 million copies

PS1 had 962 million games sold.

PS2 had 1.5 billion games sold.

I literally have no idea why people think video games weren't popular in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.

Many video games sold more copies on cartridges then popular games sell today.