Its all a cycle Hainaku, incorporated into the costs of games aside from physical manufacturing and raw material costs would be overheads, research and development, distribution, packaging etc. Thats why costs of games can vary in different countries and hence markets since the cost to distribute and package etc will vary too.
The reason new games are still expensive is because they are new, they are early in their product life cycle and hence alot more of the initial development costs are incorporated into the price of the games. Theoretically, prices of games will drop after a few years, same as consoles. So why doesnt this happen?
Piracy. You can pirate games, but not consoles.
Piracy only makes this worse as game companies lose money on all that hard work they put into developing games. Dont forget, people who pirate games, dont buy any new games, just rip off copies other people have bought, so in order to maintain a profit, companies have to also keep the prices of games consistently high.
So really, if you pirate games, dont say you're only doing it because prices of games are high, because the only reason they are so is because you pirate games.
08/02/2007
Resident Evil 4
melbourne