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Corporate greed. Yes, 100% here is why: - Console companies (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft) charge to play online - Console companies charge for games to be on their system - Console companies charge more for controllers - Game studios charge $70.00 for games that put no effort to make a good game - Game studios manipulate the gaming experience to make more money within in game stores - Microsoft charges for game pass, making a lot of money on top of console sales and game sales. - Sony charges for PS+ it used to be free, but then it went to free games with subscription, and then they raised the price twice - Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo also raised their prices for their subscription services. Nintendo is just trying to push for people to pay more for more gaming options.

Watching this on my ps4

Consoles need to stop putting graphics over framerate

I think these big publicly-traded gaming companies are shitting themselves right now. They are required to have consistent growth but there's not enough new gamers to grow the player base so they resort to scummy practices like micro transactions, deluxe editions with early access and raising the price of their games to artificially increase revenue in the short term. The good thing is they can only do this for so long before their games get so greedy that people refuse to buy them. At which point, their company inevitably collapses in on itself since investors don't want to own shares in a failing business.

Nintendo: Wanna bet?

not paid for a PS subscription for two years now, not buying any shitty skins packs, and never pre-order any game... shit... not having fun playing any games these days.

PS5 will likely be my last console for gaming in general. The final nail in the coffin would be if companies solely rely on cloud gaming. I can care less about digital games

The cutting price point you made, did work with helldivers 2 and Remnant 2. they were huge on release and a bit after too.. i hope that trend continues. and the fact that games like elden ring and bulder's gate are only 59,99 and those games that release every year have the guts to put their games at 69,99 is crazy to me ... nice video btw👌🏻

In the old days games were made by people who were passionate. Indies still represent this to some degree (but are also so expensive not to be worth it. You'll sell more than double at £12 you will at £25) but big Devs are just corporate and greedy as hell. Its all about making as much as possible not making a historically great game. Games won't even be able to be played on emulation in the future due to everything being live service. Just sell a full game for one price that lasts 8 - 10 hours and is done and over with. You release games that take people's entire life for a year to play and wonder why sales go down?

If people are too dumb and pay. Why would they stop uping the price ?? I personnally buy used or older games. If you wait 2 month they are not 70$ anymore.

Worst part is they say it’s $70 for next gen gaming but still release the same game on ps4. This shit is nothing but a scam.

i have 2 gaming pcs, but i mostly use them for music production. last thing i wanna worry is about drivers and updates and all that bs. its nice to come home press the power button and within a min play a game on my tv, and yea i know i can connect my pc to my tv with hdmi.

I'm already paying $60 for internet monthly why should anyone have to pay money to use the internet on there console

Long live piracy long live PC gaming

Sega, atari, blaze entertainment and valve: hold my beer

I really regret getting a PS5 at this point.

Bro I feel this so much 😭😭 Feels exactly the same, only thing that held me on gaming is the indie gems releasing now and then

At this point, I just wait for the games to go on sale even if their extremely hyped up titles, because the mechanics will stay the same snd it’s just better graphics and some new features

Well said pal. Pc gaming emulations and torrents the way forward.

Ps5 has 8 games Returnal, Final Fantasy 16, Helldivers 2, Astros playroom, Ronin, Ratchet and Clank rift apart, Stellar Blade, and Spiderman 2. more than Xbox. still need more games though. Im hoping Concord and Marvel Rivals is good.

i just stopped caring about AAA videogames, normies play that sht

when the next 10th generation playstation and xbox i am getting a gaming pc. why you can online for free

I moved to PC at the start when the PS5 gen started due to not ever being able to get one at the start and ho boy glad i did.

My thoughts on the subject is that, back in the days console gaming made sense because the experience gaming on console or on PC was vastly different back then, every console had their own vibe their own gimmicks their own button layout, there was big differences in compute power and how graphics looked from one console to the other (I'm talking pre-360 era, pre-PS2 even) and if you got a game on PC you were expected to play mouse and keyboard, there was pretty much no other way around maybe you could get a gamepad but games were not meant to be played that way even console ports they had very basic gamepad support you had to configure the keys by hand it was very janky Since the xbox 360 console gamepads started to become USB, the button layout kinda got standardized and became the same on ps3 xbox 360 and pc (nintendo always kept their gimmicks which was a very good thing for them) so at that time gaming kind of became unified there were fewer exclusive titles it didn't matter as much which platform you were on and it was at that time I think that the death of consoles became inevitable because if you can play the same game on console and on pc with virtually the same experience then you just realize that a console is nothing more than a less versatile, a more locked down computer This became very apparent with the PS4 era when consoles started to use the x86 architecture the very same that powers our PCs, the nail in the coffin was the PS5 which is a device that I can't comprehend, when I look at it I only see arbitrary limitations that aren't welcome in this day and age. If you buy a ps5 disc you can't run it on a ps4, even if the game was released on both systems, and even if the game is a small 2d indie game that could run on a ps3. A PS4 cannot play audio CDs even tho the hardware is perfectly capable of it, even tho Sony is the company that invented those in the first place and even tho every single device with an optical drive that has ever been released (except nintendo) are capable of playing them consoles are just confusing to me nowadays, it's like they're desperately trying to keep alive a paradigm from the 80s that completely lost its relevance in the late 2000s I didn't even talk about the thick layer of corporate greed they added on top of this mess but you can guess that it's not helping

First off ps5 was a scam recycled game catalog almost no unique games most the games on new gen are mid asf and they making us pay 70 dollars for a game worth 40 and ya the you need to dump 100 bucks on a game to compete is crazy and something that really pisses me off is the price of the console and it not allowing you to use the console off line

i fine the AAA gaming companies funny, "lets increase the price of our games so we can make more money" but if they actually had brains they'd lower the prices back to $60 or even $50 then they would see more sales and a larger player base.

We need more competition in the gaming market.

Primarily Nintendo gamer here. The only reason I got a Ps4 is because I kept hearing about all the amazing games that you just couldn't miss out on. This was in 2018, there were still many more "can't miss" games to come. I told myself I'd get a ps5 on the same circumstances: When I kept hearing about "can't miss" games. We're currently what...4 years in? I have YET to catch wind of a generation defining game. I know there's a lot of small factors at play, but the biggest thing has to be game quality. Where is this generations Persona 5? God of war? Horizon Zero Dawn? Bloodborne? Spiderman? And so on. We need good games.

When they raised the pricing on games and started releasing half finished games with day 1 2 3 & 4 patches is when I started sailing the high seas 🏴‍☠️

For me PS4 is peak era. Sold the series x and PS5, keep the Switch,PS4,PC

Me still vibing with my Xbox 360 Elite😂

I’m with you man. I’m tired of paying 70 $70 is a waste of money down a drain and I realize that because we could be paying 60 the original price. But game companies once the rack money up so they can do whatever they want with the money. The prices even go up it stay the same price I always has been I’m done buying games until they lower the prices on now them

The latest PCs have as much processing power, probably more than the latest gaming consoles, that it's more suitable to play digital versions of previously released games on PCs than buy appropriate consoles. For instance, the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5, 2.8 and 3 games released on Steam last month, and so far I'm enjoying the package. Note 'so far', for there might be the same issues with them as they are when they were released on the Epic Games website. Also, it's better to buy games that catch your eye when they're on sale. You'll save your money in that regard.

You can't sell gameboxes without great gamebox exclusives.

Watching this from my ASUS Rog Ally. I will never go back to consoles lmfao.

Liked and subscribed!!! So true!!! $70 for a game that isn’t even finished and will need to be patched several times, and shove dlc and micro transactions down our throats…

You make good points, solution is Gamepass, more games than you can play. 2 games per year covers the cost

It's failing as everything is a live service thing with tonnes of micro transactions. I bought ps4 on release but have no interest in new games as they are not designed to be fun anymore. They are designed to offer the bare minimum to get you to pay loads extra to increase your perceived fun.

I feel you when it comes to enjoying games. I'm mostly a retro gamer now as none of this new stuff is worth my time or what little energy I have and that's because I'm a man in his mid 30's now. Imagine still playing games in your 40s or 50s? Apparently, some guys my brother knows are in that age bracket! I don't see how my brother and his friends can sit and enjoy this stuff anymore what with the constant nickel and diming and when the older games die off, they just gravitate toward new ones until the pattern repeats again. I mostly emulate everything I play and with that, there's rom hacks and fan translated games which make older games a lot more exciting. Right now, I'm playing a Japanese GBA Bomberman game that didn't get a release here that's more or less a reskin of Bomberman Tournament on the GBA and it's ok but hard at times what with the armor not working due to a bug which can lead to some stupid deaths but that's what save states are for right?

I understand that video game prices didn't follow inflation, but on the other hand AAA priced video games are mostly the norm. 70 $ for GoTY ownership of a title is probably fine. COD #124. 70 $ as a doscounted price with a recurring season pass with a digital copy renting is overpriced.

The sweet spot would be 50 dollars for games if you ask me

Jim Ryan and Sony are the blame for setting the price at the beginning of this generation. PC gaming is where can you actually get the best deals. Console games are expensive ,very expensive. Console gamers have been getting screwed for years. I only paid 70.00 for 2 games and that was Diablo 4 and Star Wars other than that I waited or just didn’t play it. Games pass is pretty good and it's only 10.00 a month. Great video !

If game prices followed inflation they'd be 90USD right now.

$70 for a key to play a game for the rest of your life is fine compared to when people paid $116 in 1996. Gaming is cheap compared to other major hobbies other than streaming services.

I think they need to keep giving more options for the graphics like they do with PC, i mean allow us to play street fighter at the lowest setting possible to get that 120 frames, in all its blurry glory xD

Agreed it's sad nowadays

even up to this point, i don't understand any point why people dislikes pc? - driver update? it's literally never bother you, hell as long as it works, ignore it. - press button then play? like, is clicking shortcut on desktop such a hassle? - i don't like mouse/keyboard. just plug your controller then? wtf? - i like to play on couch. plug the pc to your tv, what? stream it, use chromecast or something. - it's expensive, only if you want it? my pc still using my 1080 because most of my played games don't even need that high of specification. at this point the only argument left is 'muh-clusive' which is more of FOMO than actually enjoying the game. pc is not a box for playing games, it's a box, that capable of playing games. you take the games away, the pc still have it's value other than being a paperweight. hell, i don't find any game on console that can hold my attention for 7k hours?

Gaming is in bad shape man, ive been playing my ps2 again and man the old socom and ghost recon games were dope

"multiplayer games only exist to profit off the customer" My friend business only exist to profit off the customer. Video games have had this as a central conceit since hardwired pong consoles and arcade machines in the early 70's. The only reason why dedication to quality seemed more prevalent back in the mid 1980's and early 90's was because figures like Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi mandated it. Sony's dominance in the late 90's put a end to that mandate and game have gotten progressively more buggy ever since.

What about PC Gaming do people think that is suffering as well?

its 70 GBP in england witch is 90 usd i think

It is pretty eye opening when you consider that a lot of the biggest games "lethal company", "pal world", "helldivers 2" are created by small studios/indie studios. I think indie games are usually created by people who love videogames rather than a bunch of execs in a huge board meeting. they feel very personal and humanizing. Even if there are bugs they are hardly ever game breaking and add a little charm to the game. Like an item clipped through a wall in lethal company or a door that or an enemy who's ai broke so now they're just an unpredictable hilarious "threat".

I haven't bought a current generation console. This is what I have connected to my TV. • PS4 • XBOX 360 • PS3 • PS2 • Sega Mega Drive

I switched to PC 7 years ago I saw the light in the PS4 era

this is true Ive been playing games on my Gaming PC much more lately my PS5 and Xbox Series X dont get used much may as well sell least one of them soon. :/ the biggest downside to console games also is lack of modding support where PC games can be modded so easily. until they are able to open that up on console theres really no reason to play them.

I’ll give you a tip only pay for one month Xbox ultimate download a few games play them try and finish them build your Microsoft points up then you use your Microsoft points every other month until eventually you’ve got enough points to just pay for the pass itself

I am playing both retro and new games maybe that can help you.

I'm a PC gamer that completely ignores 'mainstream' AAA games. Well, to be more accurate, there's only two AAA companies I still buy from. Capcom and id Software (Doom, Quake, etc). In my opinion, these are the only AAA companies that still have passion and competence. Other than these two, I stick to retro games and indie games. AAA studios and publishers can kick rocks.

For example; The Elder Scrolls Online, buy the game and any or all DLCs if you wish, then you have to pay for PS Plus Essential as a minimum, then if you like, you can pay monthly for ESO Plus. Either way PS Plus is the bare minimum. I cancelled mine last year and now I've found myself not playing the PlayStation much at all, even for Single Player games.

its just inflation, 50 dollars in 2002 which was the average game price, is 86 dollars in today's money, so they're not really more expensive than they were before, its just inflation, consoles are more expensive too, with the ps1 being less than 300$ at launch which is 521$ in today's money, and these modern take more time and money to produce too, so i think its understandable, for a business to have an imperative need to make a profit with what they make, but we cant keep labeling every thing we don't like as "corporate greed", i think its a bit overused on the internet nowadays and we should definitely be talking about more important issues, apparently its a risky market out there, and the real games that come out lately can't afford to be as risky, which i think would be an interesting topic to mention.

I'm sorry to contribute to that problem, but I grew up on PC also. And when I see some of the videogames that PlayStation and X-Box helped majorly established being put on a PC port like The Grand Theft Auto Series, Resident Evil, and Gears Of War? I just can't help but purchase and download. I just like playing PC because I think there is some major "Star Trek educational" like value to learning to play something with a keyboard and mouse. That just seems eternal for some reason....

70 dollars for a game is pure greed.

Ppl paying for 2k and madden games and buying vc and mut packs deserve to have there wallets graped

I dont even need most of new games. Despite FF7 Rebirth cuz im fan of FF, i play just older games

been playing on pc my whole life even when i had a non gaming pc back then and playing flash games on a browser... to now full gaming pc with a 7900 gre gpu that runs almost every game 200 fps. Pc gaming is just better you can get games for cheap, dont have to pay to play online, can do anything other than just playing games, editing, recording, photoshop, music producing much more.

Gamepass just got jacked up to $20 a month or $240 a year, I’d rather buy 3 or 4 full price games and own them

I am just one induvial amongst the masses, who hasn't paid for a full price game since the early PS4 days. I always wait for a heavy discount. Games have become a bottom of the tier priority to me.

You literally have no idea how many people it takes to make a video game nowadays do you?

No games and paid online service is a model bound to fail

not to metion games back then with added inflation would be almost twice as much

I’ve decided to go back to my old games, just play through my backlog. I don’t care anymore not spending $90 a game. Hobby gets too expensive.

What game are you playing in this video

Ay what i think about videogames, they should be innovative, unique, overall fun and complete. You shouldn't have to pay more than you already have to get a full complete experience. Games now i think are lacking creativety, call of duty, NBA, they all just putting out the same game with new ui's and extra content, then demanding a 70 dollar price tag. Companies earn their revenue through producing high quality games designed around being a epic fun experience, cuz why else would you play videogames if it were not worth yo time:? Yea we gotta have more new concepts/original ideas that justify it as a new game XD! So too new ip's. Indie games don't really have this problem, thaz why i love those type of games. Rather than what i used to love, TRIPLE A! (Also realism killing some games, thats a whole new topic lol.)

$70 USD is $93 CAD, almost $100 for a game? I'm good.

for modern quality of games 60$ is to much

He meant xbox is dead

No opt out and always listening? Sounds like classic *Sony* Alright..

$70 is too much for a video game? You’re right, this is why Xbox Gamepass exists. Day 1 brand new releases. We eating good here with Xbox.

That's one major issue with Console gaming. No real sales as it's one of the biggest advantages about the PC. Online is easy to take for granted, and Sales happen often on Steam. Sometimes games can be acquired for free legally (Epic games giveaways), or one can go the piracy route. Consoles seem to have slim pickings, expensive, and locked down. I'm not sure if the PSN Store or XBox have sales or discounts as I haven't had a new console personally since the PS3 360 days, not including the switch as it's a handheld, like a 3DS, or PSP imo. I believe Consoles are still important for the tech illiterate gamer. What do y'all think? Do they have discounts on the digital fronts? I've seen some on the Switch before for indies and 3rd party titles.

Consoles are still very good, but if you have the money PC is objectively the way to go (unless you like coop gaming or have a family)

PC is massively superior in every way. I use $1000 headphones (HE1000 Stealth) that can't be used on a console. On PC, I can use any hardware and software I want, make music, listen to music, use Discord, OBS, install mods, make games, watch movies, do research and reading, watch KZfaq all at the same time while using a mouse and keyboard. No proprietary nonsense nor subscriptions. The fact that I can use any audio gear I want. Higher framerates. You can get a very good PC for $700 if you buy the parts used.

To be fair, back in the day you were still paying like 50+ dollars for super nintendo games, which would be like, what? 100 dollars today? More? I feel like the problem isnt the price, its the mixture of the game quality and everybody today struggling to put food on the table, so we cant afford a game every month, we need a single game to last us months. Which is hard for ANY game outside of like a really good shooter or mmo, or if you are the type of person to speedrun games, just playing them over and over at nauseum. But the quality today just isnt there, but ive told people forever to just play older games you missed during last gen. The ps4 and xbone had hundreds of GOATed games, and you can pick them up mainly for less than 20 bucks these days.

Retro for life I just bought 4 games I've always wanted for just 40 bucks on XBA Panzer dragoon orta Raystorm Ilomilo Nights into dreams

70 dollars is not a lot for a game if you take into consideration inflation and the amount of hours of entertainment you get from them. If you can't pay 70 bucks you're just being cheap.

Gonna be a loooong time before we see ps6. They’re gonna milk tf outta it.

And This Is Why I Think All Consoles Such As Ps3-Ps5, Xbox 360-Series X, And The Switch(Cuz The Wii U Survived It's Store Shut Down) Are Gonna Shut Down All Of The Sudden And All Of Our Games For These Exact Consoles Will Become Unplayable.

Solution -> get a 7th gen console and some used games.

I just use a PC and play older games. Consoles have sucked donkey dick for a decade or more now when not have they gone downhill but so have video games in general. PC typically has the same or better selection of games, pirating, roms, old or previous generation games, better sales (Steam), and so much more in terms of advantages. Modding, better settings, controller support, romhacks, fan-content, and more. Steam Deck, Steam Link, and Linux are all superior options available as well with plenty of support. Linux is performance efficient and customizable with countless advantages. If a proper and official first-party Steam Controller 2 comes along PC will officially just be outright better overall (as if it isn't already). Gaming has gone downhill, just play older titles and stick to PC. Boycott the absolute bullshit the industry has become whether it's consoles, triple A titles, microtransactions, "deluxe" editions, DLC, day 1 locked content, subscription services, "you will own nothing and be happy", lack of right to repair, and etc. just fuck all of that. Shank the industry and bleed it dry of unearned and undeserved money 1 wallet at a time and lets get things back on track.

You can probably get over 50 games with 70$ on PC

Your comments on skill based matchmaking are the most selfish thing ive ever heard. You want to be matched with people you're much better than with zero thought for the other people. The big issue for you is you keep buying and playing COD every year. Why?

Don't forget that game Companies wanna go higher than 70$for videogames. While at the same time the base 70dollar game doesn't even have all the content due to the fact that they wanna sell you the extra content as dlc later on. So you're sorta forced to get the deluxe/ultimate whatever edition to be able to get it. And eben then, you don't get all The content, you stop have to buy the seasons passes. Videogames are supposed to be an escape from real life. I don't need to be reminded that I'm poor lmao. Naw but Fr, Indie games and Double A are killing it out there. I will just keep on supporting these folks. Triple A however, I'm dropping them. Don't quit videogames dude, give these indies and double A games a chance. U may fall in love with videogames again

Pc gaming 4 life

Indie games and fan - made games, emulators are winning on PC.

they need to care abt framrate rather than graphics like bruh i dont care abt the new graphic bull shit im juss tryna have fun not jerk off to the graphics like damn

"70 dollars is way too much for a video game" First statement in the video, and already summed up the title of the video in that 1 statement. You could have ended the video there and it would still be considered based.

This is easily disproven.

I been on playstation team since 1998 when my dad bought the first PS. Now that they're not updating their ps1 log of games like Resident Evil games and shit I'm pretty much done. Might as well get a computer that plays both new games and the old games. Wasting money spending on a subscription for games that suck usually and bs system that doesn't even come close to PC.

Games arent $70, they "start" at $70. Big difference!

Ong id rather gamble 70$ on the wnba parleys then pay 70 for new game s