Amazon Estimates Wii U Software Will Be $100

If this is the case? Fuck this I am going to PC... Ohh wait.

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They may be just hedging the pricing. The first console to come out with software priced at $100 is going to be victim of the PS3 launch curse. They will spend the next two years revising pricing structure to stay competitive and then spend the next 5 years trying to catch up with console sales. IT would have to be an industry norm across the big three or the individual company would fail woefully. Also, consider the rash of development houses closing and merging in recent years and developers aren't going to want to take the risk. I wouldn't worry too much about this at this point. I see them pushing the $60 games for quite some time longer with micro-transactions for DLC pushing you over the $100 game price point softly. Reduces the consumer backlash still end up increasing the bottom line.

One more thing, the prices of games may go up incrementally with the next generation especially upon first console release to test the market tolerance. You may hear something to similar to what Sony's PS3 marketing focused on, "These are bigger games, it takes more resources, etc..." not necessarily true but acceptable to the masses to some extent because it sounds logical. But take loss from reduced game sales for a few quarters and then having developers jump ship to a competitor will quickly lead to pricing structure revisions. But there is the chance that gamers would be okay with a $70 or $80 price point. Look at those collection editons which pilot test what you are willing to pay for primary content and then often times superficial marketing materials.

No way in hell I'd buy a game for hundred bucks a pop. I have a hard time justifying my once a year special/collector's edition purchase. Lately, the only games I've been buying are the games I missed out on when they were new that are on sale. Even then, if it costs more than ten bucks, I might wait a bit. Yeah, I'm cheap, deal with it.

It doesn't even make sense to charge that much. I mean the most effort a developer could possibly put forth is for a PC game, and charging almost double what PC games are worth for something developed on something less powerful than current consoles (and therefore requiring less graphically) is silly. Unless it's just because the Wii U is phenomenally hard to code for, in which case the console will fail anyway just like the PS3 did for the majority of its lifespan.

There is absolutely no chance games will be $100. This is just a placeholder price Amazon is using until they know the real one, and then they'll change their listing.

As for why they're making their placeholder price so ridiculously high, I'm guessing it's so the real price will seem reasonable, no matter how high it turns out to be. Just dropping in a (hypothetical) $70 price tag might induce sticker shock. But lowering the price from $100 to $70 could make people think, "Cool, I'm saving $30!"

I think your right, but what does a $10 price hike for WiiU games mean for everybody else?

Kinda what Shade said. Or if they set it at say 49.99 but Wii U games end up being 69.99 people won't complain and be all "nope! You said 49.99. I'm paying you 49.99".

Amazon will lower that pre-order price when the actual prices come out, but if they set it at $50 and then the game was actually $60 they wouldn't be able to raise it, hence the high estimate. My knee-jerk reaction is to say I would never pay $100 for a video game, but if the game was exceptional, had special & unique features, and/or was extremely long I might actually pay that much. Afterall, I paid $180 a year for several years to play WoW and it hasn't really been all that special for quite some time now, but the $$/hour of gameplay was always very cheap.

All I can say is WTF? And if the price was real, I'd quit buying games ever again.

Basically just echoing what everyone else said. No, I don't think they'll launch software at 100 bucks a game. Yes, I can see a minor price increase to the next gen like we've already seen.

Would I buy a 100 dollar game? Fvck & No. I've gotten to the point that I wait for damn near everything to drop to at least 30 or 40 bucks before I'm willing to buy, if I buy at all now that everything seems derivative as hell. The only game that's been bought full price in this house in the last 2 or so years has been Diablo 3, and that's because I wanted it as soon as it was announced and have waited years. I also regret buying it at launch, at full price, because of how buggy the first month has been.

I would not buy $100 games.

I don't think many will, but your in Peru don't you pay more anyway? Many places outside the US pay more than we do.

Stores will sell them at around $100, if you know where to go you can get them from $60 (legal btw). The thing is they don't depreciate much. God of War III is still between $55-90.

O U C H !

Games don't depreciate much here in Taiwan either, not even the second hand games. Chinese people are stingy by nature.

There's no way they would try that. Nintendo games are $50 now, they know they can't get away with doubling the price, nobody would pay that. By the way, am I the only cheap ass that never pays full price for games? Between amazon sales, their warehouse deals on used games, and gamefly sales, I usually pay like $10-$20.

For $100 the game better come with a peripheral controller that vibrates and has a suction device. Use your imagination Ill go into no further detail.

Welcome to Australian pricing, Americans. Enjoying it yet?

No :-(