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"Games NEED to cost $120" says ex-PlayStation Boss?!

Like and subscribe if you enjoyed it! Follow me on social media: Instagram:   / dreamcastguy   BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dreamcastguy... Twitch:   / thedreamcastguy   Former PlayStation US boss Shawn Layden says the price of video games should have been rising every new generation, to cover the increase in development costs. Layden, who was chairman of the company’s worldwide studios group when he left Sony in 2019, shared his thoughts on video game pricing in a new feature by GamesIndustry.biz. On the topic of game prices increasing to $80, Layden noted that the cost of premium games had stayed the same for the past 20 years despite the combination of increased development costs and inflation. Former PlayStation Executive Shawn Layden expresses his disdain for subscription models, particularly Game Pass. In his opinion, the subscription model forces developers to essentially become “wage slaves.” "They're not creating value, putting it in the marketplace, hoping it explodes, and profit sharing, and overages, and all that nice stuff” “You pay me X dollars an hour, I built you a game, here, go put it on your servers” “I don't think it's really inspiring for game developers” “I think it’s because everyone’s afraid,” he suggested. “No one wants to be the first one to raise the price, because you’re afraid to lose traffic. So what you do is you just end up eating into your operating income, your profit margin.” Layden said that by charging the same price for games while increasing game budgets at the same time, it’s inevitable that companies make less net profit as a result. “There were more sports cars in the parking lot in the PS1 era than there were in the PS4 era, because if you’re selling 20 million units at $60 for something that only cost you $10 million to make, that’s different than selling 20 million units at $60 for something that cost you $160 million to make,” he explained. According to the article, Layden then said that games should have increased in price with every new generation, but that instead the industry’s mantra has been “as long as we grow, even though we’re not making money, somehow we can’t die”.