View Full Version : How about XBLA greatest hits?
Viva Las Vegas
02-16-2007, 09:44 PM
Would be cool to pick up some of the older titles at lower prices. Maybe offer them at half their original value. Like Robotron for 200 pts etc. I wonder if MS is thinking of ever doing something like this. I know I'd buy a ton of games I wouldn't for their current price but would do so in a second if they were lowered ala greatest hit games.
AshesofWake
02-16-2007, 10:14 PM
no that would totally piss off everybody if they made a huge batch like that. making everybody that paid for XBLA titles to not pay for future ones knowing they would eventually drop in price. horrible idea /end thread
Not such a horrible idea that they wouldn't do it. (http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=952059) You can find this collection for under $20 sometimes. It's just too bad that there's no way to play the games without the disc but I'm sure there would be tons of problems with people ripping arcade games and reselling the disc.
I'd love to see reduced priced arcade games after the games have been out awhile. Retail games always go down in price so why shouldn't digital content?
-Bob
magiic
02-16-2007, 10:26 PM
ooo denied
help1
02-16-2007, 10:27 PM
no that would totally piss off everybody if they made a huge batch like that. making everybody that paid for XBLA titles to not pay for future ones knowing they would eventually drop in price. horrible idea /end thread
Gears of war will eventually drop in price too. Flawed logic?
I think that they wil have specials at some point.
lordopus99
02-16-2007, 11:09 PM
I personally think they should. Just because they don't come in a box with a manual doesnt mean they shouldn't have a price drop. Its like how Tomb Raider Legend went from a 59.99 game to 29.99 game in a month.
Corvin
02-16-2007, 11:46 PM
Gears of war will eventually drop in price too. Flawed logic?
I think that they wil have specials at some point.
Gears of War takes up space on a shelf. When it stops selling they have to put something there that will.
XBLA files are all digital that take up little to no space on a server somewhere that costs next to nothing to host. The only reason they will drop in price is to spur sales.
AshesofWake
02-16-2007, 11:50 PM
Gears of war will eventually drop in price too. Flawed logic?
I think that they wil have specials at some point.
Gears you can sell and rebuy, Micro transaction are non-transferable, pew pew pew
Viva Las Vegas
02-17-2007, 12:53 AM
no that would totally piss off everybody if they made a huge batch like that. making everybody that paid for XBLA titles to not pay for future ones knowing they would eventually drop in price. horrible idea /end thread
How? It is like every friggin game ever made, they all eventually drop in price.
I think your reading comprehension skills suck. I'm talking about the games being available for download like they are but just at a lower cost/points, not released on a disc or whatever the hell your talking about.
a retail games would have to have a price drop because the store have to sell it to stock new games. With XBLA they dont have this problem.
PenguinMaster
02-17-2007, 01:11 AM
a retail games would have to have a price drop because the store have to sell it to stock new games. With XBLA they dont have this problem. Games don't just drop in price because they have to get rid of them. The title of this thread refers to greatest hits. Greatest hits, platinum hits, and player's choice titles are all new copies of the game that are sold for cheaper. Lowering the price of anything is to increase sales, I don't see why they wouldn't lower the price of XBLA titles eventually.
lordopus99
02-17-2007, 01:12 AM
a retail games would have to have a price drop because the store have to sell it to stock new games. With XBLA they dont have this problem.
This logic is invalid when it comes to platinum hits and universal price drops.
cleaver
02-17-2007, 01:14 AM
What hits?
Apossum
02-17-2007, 01:30 AM
that'd be great if instead of SOTN or Alien Hominid we got Pac-Man Greatest Hits next week. or hell, why not just rerelease Paperboy?
AshesofWake
02-17-2007, 02:56 AM
How? It is like every friggin game ever made, they all eventually drop in price.
I think your reading comprehension skills suck. I'm talking about the games being available for download like they are but just at a lower cost/points, not released on a disc or whatever the hell your talking about.
uh....yea whatever man, i never said anything about discs. stop smoking teh crack.
It'll piss off the same just like the GRAW expansion did. Now people will most likely hold off on downloadable expansion stuff and not buy it at the time the content comes out (not EVERYBODY but some people). If people now FOR SURE a game seems like it's going to be greatest hits, a good portion of people will wait. Exactly how most people on this site wait for games to drop in price, aka God of War, Okami and etc.
The difference is, when you buy a 50 dollar game you can sell it back, get your money back, a good portion of it. Hence why it's not much of a big deal when actual retail physical procucts drop in price. But when you have micro transactions something you cannot have a physical grasp on to do with what you please and that cannot be transferred at all, that's where the problem lies.
If they do such a greatest hits collection. I'm never buying another XBLA title at launch, mainly because i can get it for cheaper down the road eventually. And since these arcade titles are not that big of releases, it's justified to just wait.
terribledeli
02-17-2007, 03:42 PM
When I asked Major Nelson this a while ago, I was told
"No plans for it in the immediate future"
jollydwarf
02-17-2007, 03:48 PM
Eventually, when virtually no one is downloading some of these Live Arcade titles, it would only make sense to slash the prices...even if it's only during temporary 'promotional periods'. Sure, there's no backstock to clean out, but what's better for Microsoft and the games' publishers; virtually zero revenue, or steady revenue at a reduced price? Like anything else, of course Major "Diva" Nelson and all the other Keebler elves involved aren't going to hint at this now.
I could see it happening as early as this holiday season, but maybe not until well into 2008. They want to make sure that they won't be losing full-price sales to later adopters (i.e. the price-cut crowd, those drawn in by Halo 3, etc.).
no that would totally piss off everybody if they made a huge batch like that. making everybody that paid for XBLA titles to not pay for future ones knowing they would eventually drop in price. horrible idea /end thread
... by that logic, wouldn't that happen with your traditional "hard copy" $60 titles?
ChaoticClimax
02-17-2007, 04:16 PM
that'd be great if instead of SOTN or Alien Hominid we got Pac-Man Greatest Hits next week. or hell, why not just rerelease Paperboy?
LOL! Do I sense a little bitterness? JK. GIVE US OUR DAMN SOTN!!!
AshesofWake
02-17-2007, 04:32 PM
... by that logic, wouldn't that happen with your traditional "hard copy" $60 titles?
already addressed that above.
Apossum
02-17-2007, 04:43 PM
LOL! Do I sense a little bitterness? JK. GIVE US OUR DAMN SOTN!!!
yes. and lots of it :lol: only a solid month of good releases can cure it!
doubledown
02-17-2007, 05:15 PM
They already dropped the price on the GRAW expansion pack....so, I could see them doing this, but not that likely.
already addressed that above.
Yeah. Kind of.
CocheseUGA
02-17-2007, 05:41 PM
Yeah. Kind of.
Similar to: a Ferrari is kind of like a Lamborghini.
There's no reason why XBLA games couldn't drop in price. If something doesn't sell, you lower the price.
These 'people' will get pissed at that just like these 'people' are going to be pissed that there will be a revision of the 360.
These 'people' need a 'swift' kick in the 'ass' and get over 'themselves.'
AshesofWake
02-17-2007, 06:29 PM
Similar to: a Ferrari is kind of like a Lamborghini.
There's no reason why XBLA games couldn't drop in price. If something doesn't sell, you lower the price.
These 'people' will get pissed at that just like these 'people' are going to be pissed that there will be a revision of the 360.
These 'people' need a 'swift' kick in the 'ass' and get over 'themselves.'
and because of all of that, people are holding out on buying a 360 and a bunch of other stuff. If they set an example by dropping XBLA prices then more people will hold off for the lower price. I'm not against the idea, hell i would love cheaper XBLA titles. Just doesn't seem like they would do this at all. I mean....it's 5 bucks for the majority of them....5 bucks......I can see them dropping prices on the 15 dollar titles, but not the 5 dollar titles. Especially when they can rape you with the extra points left over from a 500 point purchase via themes and what not.
if it does happen, fuck yeah. but I just do not see it happening at all.
The GRAW expansion was overpriced to begin with though. On top of that majority of XBLA titles are impulse purchases. Not a real game you go to check out to make sure it's worth 50 or 60 bucks.