“Making a game now costs two to three times more”: Did you think video game prices had skyrocketed? It’s even worse

Gaming News “Making a game now costs two to three times more”: Did you think video game prices had skyrocketed? It’s even worse

Costumes that spark debates

You will no doubt have noticed, but while studios did not hesitate to release multiple fighting games on a single generation of consoles, they are now trying to immortalize their baby. This was already the case with Street Fighter v, but also with Tekken 7, for example, the only work of the PS4/Xbox One era. Seven years later, here we are Tekken 8, recently released on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series, fortunately proves to be an excellent fighting game, one of the best ever made.

Knowing that it has won over its large fan base, Bandai Namco has already announced its plans: Season Pass 1, which includes four playable characters that will be gradually delivered throughout the year, costs 40 dollars. The publisher also recently expressed its desire to make an offer Costumes from previous Tekken through the Tekken Store priced at $4 each.

Necessary, The players who have already spent 79.99 dollars to receive their precious sesame are complaining. And again, without counting on a certain Street Fighter 6 from Capcom, which does not shy away from offering skins for 10 dollars.

Maximized development costs

These prices cause anger and misunderstanding. “I hope no one gives in”, explains an Internet user about the costumes sold in the store. ”””Isn’t it enough to pay for such an expensive season ticket?””

More than angry, the player even asks for explanations from Katsuhiro Harada, the historical producer of the Tekken saga. “If they saw the money, they wouldn’t stop and we wouldn’t get a single skin without paying for it. Mr. Harada, we don’t even have Team Battle and now there are additional costs!”

Once, Harada picked up his keyboard to make his statement about X.

Development costs today are ten times higher than in the 90s and have more than doubled or almost doubled compared to Tekken 7. Even waiting room servers are expensive to maintain. Before, there weren’t many specifications and there was no online offer. In addition, the games did not have such high resolution and resolution.

Now many people want the game to work and maintain for a long time. For this reason, constantly updating the game costs money.

Between inflation and the crisis of the video game industry, without forgetting the Covid-19 period, Harada actually seems to be witnessing a changing and definitely more expensive era. Then the producer indirectly and scathingly responds to the internet user who hoped no one would buy the season ticket:

He probably only has fond memories of the old games he experienced as a child and doesn’t pay attention to this changing industry and rising costs. The economic situation and everything else is changing. If we do everything as he suggests, the game will simply stop working in a few months. I think that’s what he wants.

There is no point in informing him of these realities. He must want us to stop all economic activity and stop updating and supporting the game.

Ouch. In any case, we would like to remind you that Tekken 8 has been available since January 28 and has received a good rating of 18/20 in our columns.

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