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Analysts say: $60 price not sustainable

Submitted by on January 9, 2007 – 7:15 am5 Comments

maddenarticle.jpgApparently some guy from a German bank thinks that the recent price drop on Madden, Tiger Woods, and FIFA means that the $60 price of next gen titles will not last long as customers wait for price drops before buying their games. Take this, from Gamedaily.biz, with a huge grain of salt.

According to analyst Jeetil Patel of Deutsche Bank, “either the industry is still in transition, or $60 pricing is not sustainable.” Patel pointed out that in the past cycle, price cuts on Madden didn’t occur until at least April. “In this new cycle, we think it [is] critical that $60 next-gen prices last at least as long as $50 prices did in the prior cycle in order to compensate for steeper development costs, a tougher competitive environment (which requires more marketing spend) and so that EA can replicate the 27% operating margins seen in FY04,” Patel said.

Whatever. Just because EA has dropped the price on soon-to-be-obsolete sports titles, I’m supposed to believe this is the beginning of then end of $60 games? Right. Just wait until Halo 3 is released.

  • Tom Clancy

    Whatever. Just because some guy who’s living depends on being right about these kinds of things more often that not looks at overall sales figures and has his number-crunching peons run a few regressions against sales at the same point in the last console generation says something, how’s that going to stand up to the specific case of the most anticipated title on the 360?

  • http://www.ashdcuk.com/thenose ash

    Yeah, the Halo 3 case is very specific. Having said that, all of those EA titles are multiplatform and only updates. The development costs were surely a lot less fro FIFA ’07 than for something like Gears of War i.e. platform exclusive and the first in a series. So it probably matters a lot less to EA when they cut the price of their games.

  • http://www.huzzahgoods,com Mole

    Well the German fellow also allowed for the possibility that the industry is still in transition, which may have been a factor in EA’s decision. Perhaps the $60 tag will stick longer as the next-gen install base grows?

  • http://www.farbot.com/ Paul

    Cmon, people, get with the program. Why do game prices fall? Because the games AREN’T SELLING at the original price.

    Yes some games will stay at full price when the publisher decides that they’re selling well enough to keep them there.

    Really there’s no other reason to keep prices high. If you want it at that price, buy it at that price. If you want it cheaper, wait.

    I’m glad some people are coming to their senses and waiting.

  • http://www.aeropause.com George

    Paul,

    I totally agree.

    I just think it’s funny that he’s basing the entire future of the game industry on 3 EA titles, granted, EA’s best-selling titles, but $60 didn’t stop people from buy 2.5 million copies of Gears of War, and it won’t stop people from buying umpteen hojillion copies of Halo 3.