Skull & Bones will not be the only Ubisoft game to cost $80. in one recent interview with Axios spoke managing director Yves Guillemot about the price development of future Ubisoft games. According to this, all major AAA games from the French publisher are to be on the digital shelves of current consoles with price tags of 80 dollars.
Exactly which games are among the expensive triple-A productions and which are not remains to be seen. For example, the recently revealed Assassin’s Creed Mirage will not cost 80 dollars on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X either. This again underscores the fact that Mirage is to be understood more as a smaller spin-off and is not seen as a very big successor to Valhalla.
What Triple-A actually means and what we expect from such games, we discussed in the podcast:
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What does this mean for PC gamers?
So far, only the console versions have been affected by this price increase. At least Skull & Bones will only cost 60 dollars on the PC – unless you decide on the Premium Edition for a whopping 90 dollars. So far, however, Ubisoft has not given any guaranteed promise that future PC games will remain at triple-A level at 60 dollars.
However, you shouldn’t worry too much about this at the moment. We asked Ubisoft for a statement
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This is how other publishers do it
After all, Ubisoft is not the first publisher to turn up its prices on the consoles. Since 2020, 80 dollars has established itself as the new price point for titles on PS5 and Xbox Series. Take-Two started with NBA 2K21. In the meantime, however, Electronic Arts also offers FIFA 23 for 80 dollars, for example, and Activision is taking the same path with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Even Sony itself is selling the remake of The Last of Us for currently 80 dollars.
On the PC, the first two examples are all still ten dollars cheaper, while there is no PC price for the remake of The Last of Us. The only publisher who has so far increased prices on the PC in parallel is Square Enix. So costs The prophesied both on PS5 and on Steam now 80 dollars.
Want to know more about how console prices affect PC? Then read the expert assessment by our editor-in-chief Heiko:
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Why you can’t care about the price increase
What do you think of the new prices on consoles? Write us in the comments if you think the development is justified or if you are not ready to spend so much money on games.
